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The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:12 pm
by drumdude
Lavina Fielding Anderson is a Mormon feminist writer who edited the books Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective (1992) and Lucy's Book, an edition of the Lucy Mack Smith narrative. She is a former editor for the Ensign and served as editor for the Journal of Mormon History from 1991 to May 2009. She was excommunicated September 23 for apostasy, allegedly because of her article "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology" in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She also wrote chapter 9, "The Grammar of Inequity" in the book Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism (1992).
Anderson continues to attend LDS Church services as a non-member. She writes on Mormon issues, including editing the multi-volume Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance, an ongoing collection of interviews with Mormons who believe they were unfairly disciplined by the church. After her husband's death in 2018, Anderson's bishop approached her about reinstatement, the first ecclesiastical leader in the twenty-four years since she was excommunicated to do so. The stake high council and regional council recommended to the First Presidency that she be reinstated, but on August 27, 2019, they received a denial without an explanation. Anderson continues to attend weekly church services and published in 2020 a collection of essays regarding inclusiveness and gender inequality in her book Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church.
She has been attending church faithfully even as a non member for decades. Her bishop urged her to apply for rebaptism. Her stake high council and regional council endorsed her. Child molesters and murderers get rebabtised. But not her.
Not a feminist intellectual who made Rusty and his gang look bad. They don’t know her like her local leaders do. They didn’t even bother to give an explanation.
Do you need any more evidence this religion is a racket?
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:35 am
by GiordanoBruno
Lavina is a fine person and a very good writer. Her compilation of ecclesiastical abuses in the LDS is vital work. Her treatment at the hands of these men is a disgrace, her forbearance in the face of it admirable. I certainly would not continue sitting in the pew week after week.
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 9:14 am
by Dr. Shades
drumdude:
Please tell us the source of that quote.
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:18 am
by drumdude
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 4:14 pm
by Philo Sofee
GiordanoBruno wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:35 am
Lavina is a fine person and a very good writer. Her compilation of ecclesiastical abuses in the LDS is vital work. Her treatment at the hands of these men is a disgrace, her forbearance in the face of it admirable. I certainly would not continue sitting in the pew week after week.
I too would have a very hard time committing that kind of time to it in person. I could be making videos instead about it instead.
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:55 am
by BeNotDeceived
drumdude wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:12 pm
Do you need any more evidence this religion is a racket?
It's worse than a racket, it's thoroughly corrupt and deceitful to its 'members' and the world. By the way, how does a trademark manage to have 'members'???
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:19 am
by drumdude
BeNotDeceived wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:55 am
drumdude wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:12 pm
Do you need any more evidence this religion is a racket?
It's worse than a racket, it's thoroughly corrupt and deceitful to its 'members' and the world. By the way, how does a trademark manage to have 'members'???
It’s like Costco without the cheap hot dogs.
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:03 pm
by BeNotDeceived
drumdude wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:19 am
BeNotDeceived wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:55 am
It's worse than a racket, it's thoroughly corrupt and deceitful to its 'members' and the world. By the way, how does a trademark manage to have 'members'???
It’s like Costco without the cheap hot dogs.
Re: The pettiness of the first presidency in a nutshell
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:13 pm
by Doctor CamNC4Me
Mormons cock blocking Christ’s atonement since 1836.
- Doc