Earlier this evening when I first heard the news (that Kate Kelly, leader of Ordain Women was excommunicated from the LDS church) I felt sad and a little sick to my stomach. But it's four in the morning now and I feel angry.
The priesthood is the power to act in God's name. Of course we already have it -you just haven't formally recognized us yet.
We are a church with over 50% women and yet men make every single decision- including this one. That's stupid.
Kate was supposedly "leading people astray..." I get that the protests and demands were more than the church can accept. But I see it more like she was the first (yes, there have been others, but this time it caught the world's attention) to be brave enough to stand up and say what we all know. That even if you don't want the priesthood, no one can deny that women do not have enough say, enough voice and enough leadership in this church.
Tyrone and I talk about how all over the world in a million different situations those in power try desperatly to hold on to it and those without power must fight so bravely, often to their own detriment.
Kate Kelly bravely stood up for me and I'll stay and try to make things better...
Agreed!
ReplyDeleteMy mother couldn't be a priest until she was in her late forties. Sometimes it takes a lot of patience and a lot of persistence by people willing to buck the system.
ReplyDeleteI recently came across this quote from Fiona Givens: "God calls fallible human beings to these positions so that we can see His glory working, and His power manifesting through these fallible men who have weaknesses, and yet the Gospel triumphs eventually."
ReplyDeleteBecause I believe in ongoing revelation, I think it's likely that women will someday be ordained to offices in the priesthood. Because I believe that the Lord often works in ways I do not understand, I think it's just as likely that women will never be ordained to offices in the priesthood. Personally, completely speculatively, I think that the Relief Society is "in its ascendancy" (as Julie Beck, former RS general president put it), and that the Relief Society will finally be made "a kingdom of priests" as Joseph Smith prophesied. But again, that's me speculating. Either way, the Gospel triumphs eventually.