183 Semiannual General Conference Thread

[CardiacCoug]

Many years ago we decided to not have husbands and wives pray at the same meeting in our ward. This was done to make sure that singles did not feel left out. It has worked great. We never have had a male/female requirement for any prayer.

Yep, that's the right way to do it. We do it the same way: two individual members are asked to give the prayers. These two people aren't married to each other and their gender doesn't matter.

[clackamascoug]

If Sacrament Meeting is technically deemed as a Priesthood Meeting, and women can pray before and after, and if women can participate in the Priesthood Ordinances through their husband, can a lady pass, or bless, the Sacrament if she is doing it alongside her husband?

Is the line moving, or is it me?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Confession?

Ha. Reminds of the time that I was teaching EQ on brig better husbands or fathers or something. In a total brain fart, I made the statement that my wife and I have developed several non traditional sex roles in our household."

"Gender" definitely would have been the better term.


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[Jeff Lebowski]

Ha. Reminds of the time that I was teaching EQ on brig better husbands or fathers or something. In a total brain fart, I made the statement that my wife and I have developed several non traditional sex roles in our household."

"Gender" definitely would have been the better term.

[CardiacCoug]

If Sacrament Meeting is technically deemed as a Priesthood Meeting, and women can pray before and after, and if women can participate in the Priesthood Ordinances through their husband, can a lady pass, or bless, the Sacrament if she is doing it alongside her husband?

Is the line moving, or is it me?

The line moves an inch or two every few years. We've still got another mile or so to go.

[venkman]

Anyone catch the underwear run downtown on Sunday?

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56...-salt.html.csp

[RC Vikings]

Anyone catch the underwear run downtown on Sunday?

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56...-salt.html.csp

http://www.sltrib.com/csp/cms/sites/...65&pid=5584746

Not everybody can look like a VS model in their underwear.

[CardiacCoug]

Whoa! 46 quotes from General Conference have gone viral.

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/1910/...onference.html

[TripletDaddy]

looks like a lot of guys are opting for the garment style boxer-brief now. Traditional boxers are a thing of the past.

[Tex]

That's how our ward did it for a long time. But I always suspected it was a goofy tradition rather than policy.

Here is a little bit of interesting history on the women praying ban.

http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/05/0...meeting-redux/

That's good to know, actually, since I've run into this myself. I even mentioned it years ago. I'm glad women are praying in GC now. Puts the whole thing to rest.

It's kind of amusing to see the hand-wringing over Packer's "unwritten order" talk, though. Any custom that gets made-up or misinterpreted by lay leadership somehow gets blamed on Packer. If you actually read the original talk, it's got a lot of very controversial stuff in it, like the presiding authority sitting on the stand, not aspiring to callings, and following your priesthood leadership. Funny how that's morphed into the scapegoat for any random custom that some Milquetoast Mormon might object to.

[TripletDaddy]

lol. Tex emerges and as a bonus he emerges as a long-standing champion of women's rights in the Church.

Whomever is doing this whole Tex persona is hilarious, like the seriouslysoblessed blog. Congrats, very well done.

[Tex]

lol. Tex emerges and as a bonus he emerges as a long-standing champion of women's rights in the Church.

Whomever is doing this whole Tex persona is hilarious, like the seriouslysoblessed blog. Congrats, very well done.

I was marching with the OW crowd on Saturday. Missed you there.

[TripletDaddy]

I was marching with the OW crowd on Saturday. Missed you there.

After Big D's talk, I figured you would spend the remaining bulk of your weekend deleting most of your old posts.

[Tex]

After Big D's talk, I figured you would spend the remaining bulk of your weekend deleting most of your old posts.

Ich heisse Big D, schatz.

[TripletDaddy]

Ich heisse Big D, schatz.

You speak the tongue of the Third Reich. Why am I not surprised.