LDS women, your chance of a temple marriage is pretty slim.

[_Fiannan]

With ratios of 60-40 young LDS women to men (and that's in Utah),

Active LDS men (especially RMs) have it so good. In Utah there are a lot of well behaved god fearing LDS single women with no children or STD. Utah is a paradise for active LDS men. So many women and a lot of dating opportunities.

Maybe some of the polygamists are taking up the slack?

[_Amore]

With ratios of 60-40 young LDS women to men (and that's in Utah),

Active LDS men (especially RMs) have it so good. In Utah there are a lot of well behaved god fearing LDS single women with no children or STD. Utah is a paradise for active LDS men. So many women and a lot of dating opportunities.

But do the women want such men? :)
Generally, a distinctive aspect between men and women is agreeableness. Women, and feminine men (most men in the church especially now and increasingly) tend to be more agreeable and thus go along with the cultish ways without question. There are exceptions but this is generally noted by psychologists. So, I wonder if the church’s future without the more manly men - will be more feminist and weak. Not saying women are weak (I am one), but nature’s balance is both masculine & feminine and when one dominates - it tends to be weak. Yin and Yang...(It would be also weak if it were masculine-dominated).

[_Fiannan]

I think that as the Church grows older and more female, and many of those females are psychologically frustrated that they never had children, no matter how faithful and "pure" they strived to be, there will be a shift to the kind of Protestantism we saw develop in the 1970s within the mainstream of that section of Christianity. Single women in their 30s and 40s will be the main source of tithing and it will be hard for leaders to maintain a more conservative approach to doctrine or social policy.

[_huckelberry]

there will be a shift to the kind of Protestantism we saw develop in the 1970s within the mainstream of that section of Christianity.

Despite being old enough to have seen the seventies as an adult I am clueless as to what you might be referring to here. Perhaps some explanation would reveal your intended meaning.

[_Fiannan]

there will be a shift to the kind of Protestantism we saw develop in the 1970s within the mainstream of that section of Christianity.

Despite being old enough to have seen the seventies as an adult I am clueless as to what you might be referring to here. Perhaps some explanation would reveal your intended meaning.

Well, for one thing, their birthrate fell and then the young already born either quit religion or gravitated to more "social conscious" alternatives in the early 70s or, ironically with the coming of age of Gen X, the rest went to more conservative alternatives.

What you were left with was a lot of gray hair and an emphasis on "ministering" to the poor, which translated, not to helping at the individual basis, but advocacy for government to come to the aid of the poor or otherwise disadvantaged in society. So many churches became more extensions of the liberal wing of the Democrat party. This is not surprising as single women without kids, and older people, tend to be more vulnerable to propaganda to lift up others, even if it means taxing people struggling to support their families. The LDS religion appears to be on that course now, especially as it will soon be made up of a huge number of never-to-be-married women who, statistically speaking, are more likely to vote for left-wing causes. This may be why the leadership is beginning to emphasize feel-good liberal causes. This will continue to be the trend and we will see many people with more conservative, or traditional, viewpoints feel like the Church no longer reinforces their values.