"Hold my root beer" - the Russell M. Nelson thread

[Applejack]

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Hmmm....I guess I never thought of allowing women to serve as witnesses for ordinances as "equality", but I suppose this is better.

[smokymountainrain]

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Gotcha. And applejack, he said baby steps. Yeesh.

[clackamascoug]

What are some other things that women (and men) will be able to do - that they aren't doing now?

How about Young Women passing the sacrament, or men serving as Primary President? Are these traditional - or a blasphemy before The Lord?

[falafel]

Another snowflake in the snowstorm.

I agree. Its really coming down now!! Practically a blizzard! Welcome back funks!

[Bo Diddley]

I agree. Its really coming down now!! Practically a blizzard! Welcome back funks!

Heh. That's kind of how I read it too.

[LVAllen]

Hmmm....I guess I never thought of allowing women to serve as witnesses for ordinances as "equality", but I suppose this is better.

With every removal of an arbitrary distinction, the inequality decreases. Once the arbitrary distinctions are gone, we can have a real conversation about how gender actually affects service in the Lord's church.

[LVAllen]

What are some other things that women (and men) will be able to do - that they aren't doing now?

How about Young Women passing the sacrament, or men serving as Primary President? Are these traditional - or a blasphemy before The Lord?

Define "traditional." If that means "occurred regularly in Grandpa's time," well, the first one happened in the 40s. And again recently: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018...-mormon-girls/

[creekster]

With every removal of an arbitrary distinction, the inequality decreases. Once the arbitrary distinctions are gone, we can have a real conversation about how gender actually affects service in the Lord's church.

I agree, in general. I'm not sure that all of the distinctions such as this are in fact arbitrary, as I think they might have been imposed thoughtfully and in good faith. Even so, once we are down to those distinctions that we think are actually doctrinal, then we can have the conversation you suggest.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

That's cool. A baby step, but definitely in the right direction.

Meanwhile. [emoji53]

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[Sullyute]

Meanwhile. [emoji53]

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No “Q”?! What a bigot!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Meanwhile. [emoji53]

Oy vey!

[clackamascoug]

Since we're talking here - can somebody tell me what a queer is? The mystery Q. I got the L, G, B, and T .... but I don't really understand the definition of a queer. What do they do that's so special they get their own letter.

[Jarid in Cedar]

There are several medical conditions that are a challenge to binary sex determination at birth:

5α-Reductase deficiency
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Ambiguous genitalia
True cases of hermaphrodism

[LVAllen]

L = woman sexually attracted to women.
G = man sexually attracted to men.
B = someone attracted o both men and women.
T = someone whose gender identity does match biology
Q = ??. Literally. Sometimes Questioning is used instead. They don't put themselves in any of the above, or they don't know, but they don't think they are hetero.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Since we're talking here - can somebody tell me what a queer is? The mystery Q. I got the L, G, B, and T .... but I don't really understand the definition of a queer. What do they do that's so special they get their own letter.

The way you are asking this question comes off as really insincere, so I wouldn't expect a sincere response.