If a female tried to get into the priesthood session of GC...

[Uncle Ted]

The last women to attend the priesthood session of GC...

[…]
Early Monday, I was in the newsroom typing up my notes in preparation for my Tuesday deadline. I heard the phone ring for the first time that morning, and our office manager announced that President Steven Bennion was on the line. My heart started pounding. Why would our college president start his week by calling the newsroom?


He asked if I had been to Utah this past weekend to cover General Conference.


“Yes.”


Had I been at Priesthood Session?


“Yes.”


President Bennion then said he got a call from one of the brethren that morning who saw a woman at the Priesthood session. He wanted to know who she was and tracked me down through Church Public Affairs. President Bennion relayed that the caller wondered about my purpose and felt that having me there was a distraction.
[…]
Six months later


In Fall 1993, we received the General Conference media packet at our college newsroom. I snatched it, hoping for another trip out of windy Rexburg. As I scanned, I noticed a new sentence of instruction that indicated only male reporters were invited to cover Priesthood session.


My first thought was, “I am responsible for a new church policy!”
[…]

http://utahvalley360.com/2014/03/24/...thood-session/

[Moliere]

FYI, this is not from my stake or I would have included my reply.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Good heavens. That is ridiculous.

[Pheidippides]

Good heavens. That is ridiculous.

Been making the rounds on the exmo subreddit and fb (Dehlin posted it) all day.

[falafel]

Love it. Forcing the issue to the top. I see this having the opposite effect of what the stake appears to intend.

[SeattleUte]

"eat out own bread..." What on earth can Isaiah have meant by that? It sounds vulgar.

[thesaint258]

I had that dream about being back on my mission yesterday. There was a new wrinkle this time, though--a female mission president. I thought I haven't been on much lately because work has been so busy, but apparently CS is still messing with my subconscious.

[Copelius]

Even though it was 151 years ago I like Brigham Young's take on that verse much better:

I suppose that more than half a million of the brave sons of our country now sleep in the dust in consequence of what I consider an unnecessary war, and the end is not yet. They have left their wives and daughters unprotected in a land rent asunder with a fratricidal war, and what are to become of them? You remember the scripture which reads, “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Gen. 6:2 He may say in the latter times, Now, my sons, take unto yourselves wives of the daughters of men and raise up a posterity unto me, and teach them the way of life and salvation and the arts of peace, that they may war no more forever. And they will gather up the old cannon and weapons of war that are now making such devastation, and convert them into implements of husbandry and useful machinery. By and by it will be said to the servants of God, “Go down and see if there is anything worth saving,” for it is written, “Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. Isa. 3:25 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” Isa. 4:1

[Uncle Ted]

Good hell, is this stake presidency implying that polygamy is making a come back? https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/4.1?lang=eng

Well, if so, I predicted it...

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...=1#post1076257


Edit: From Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, BY said:

The last time I was in the city of Lowell there were fourteen thousand more females than males in that one city. That is many years ago. They live and die in a single state, and are forgotten. Have they filled the measure of their creation, and accomplished the design of heaven in bringing them upon the earth? No; they have not. Two thousand good, Godfearing men should go there, and take to themselves seven wives apiece. It is written in the Bible, “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” Isa. 4:1 The Government of the United States do not intend that that prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Lord Almighty means that it shall. Do you not think that the Lord will conquer? I think he will, and we are helping him. It is the decree of the Almighty, that in the last days seven women shall take hold of one man, &c., to be counseled and advised by him, being willing to spin their own wool, make their own [p. 271a]clothing and do everything they can to earn their own living, if they can only bear his name to take away their reproach. What is this order for? It is for the resurrection; it is not for this world. I would not go across this bowery for polygamy, if it only pertained to this world. It is for the resurrection; and the Spirit of the Lord has come upon the people, and upon the ladies especially, to prepare the way for the fulfillment of his word. The female sex have been deceived so long, and been trodden under foot of man so long, that a spirit has come upon them, and they want a place, and a name, and a head; for the man is the head of the woman, 1 Cor. 11:3 to lead her into the celestial kingdom of our Father and God.

Yet another example of a dumb*ss SP that has the collective intelligence of a small soap dish.

[CardiacCoug]

"eat out own bread..." What on earth can Isaiah have meant by that? It sounds vulgar.

It's "eat our own bread" sicko.

It was misspelled in the email, too.

[pellegrino]

Does anyone really believe that letter is real? I mean, I'm cynical about most church leaders, but I don't think I know anyone who would seriously consider interpreting Isaiah 4:1 in that way.

[Northwestcoug]

Does anyone really believe that letter is real? I mean, I'm cynical about most church leaders, but I don't think I know anyone who would seriously consider interpreting Isaiah 4:1 in that way.

It does seem over the top...

[pellegrino]

It does seem over the top...

that scripture (which also made it into 1 nephi 22) has a long history of being interpreted by Mormons as a justification for polygamy and in more recent years the rationale for its eventual return.

[Pheidippides]

Does anyone really believe that letter is real? I mean, I'm cynical about most church leaders, but I don't think I know anyone who would seriously consider interpreting Isaiah 4:1 in that way.

Fwiw, a few people verified it on exmo reddit (where it originated). Eastern Idaho supposedly.

[myboynoah]

Love it. Forcing the issue to the top. I see this having the opposite effect of what the stake appears to intend.

Yeah, not the smartest move.