Blixa wrote:Have Joan of Arc and Margaret Thatcher been baptized by proxy?
Need you ask?
Yes, Sister Dew could well be considered for the Department of Commerce, provided she had two male advisors. LDS women have been US Senators, Representatives and I think also Secretary of the Treasury (Ivy Baker Priest).
Sherri Dew is such an unrepentant boot-lick and tool of the Brethren that I hardly think she counts.
You are such a kind and gracious soul.
Hey, I just call it like I see it. It seems to me that, generally speaking, "higher up" females in the Church tend to wind up ex'ed if they don't suck up to the Brethren. A good example of this can be found in the fairly recent, utterly ridiculous pander-job issued by the new Relief Society prez., wherein she essentially called for a full-fledged return to 1950s anachronism and repression. I'm quite certain that the Brethren were all cheerfully nodding their heads in agreement over this---provided, of course, that they did not order her to give that talk in the first place. It sometimes seems to me that women such as Dew are like marionettes who must dance and twitch according to the whims of their puppetmasters.
No success outside the home can compensate for failure of the family unit. What is failure, according to LDS leaders? Failure to raise sons who serve honorable missions; failure to raise daughters who marry in the temple; failure to keep a spotless house, present children who are spotless inside and out, and sons who wear spotless perfectly pressed white shirts to church. Failure is sons who join the military instead of serve missions. Failure is girls who embarrass their families by getting caught having sex outside of marriage. The biggest failure of a LDS woman is to be depressed.
There are few if any prominent LDS women, heads of state, heads of business, or heads of anything other than Relief Society and Primary. There may be LDS women who are heads of state, corporate leaders, etc, but they don't broadcast their LDS membership; to do so would be to admit that they are failures at being LDS women. LDS women are mothers, behind the scenes, not leaders, out in the spotlights. The spotlights are for LDS men, and they don't like to share... ever.
Why is this so? Because our women have allowed it. Those who spoke out against it were summarily excommunicated. Hopefully that will be buried along with the present crop of leaders, as the next generation of women takes the reins.
Sherri Dew is such an unrepentant boot-lick and tool of the Brethren that I hardly think she counts.
You are such a kind and gracious soul.
Hey, I just call it like I see it. It seems to me that, generally speaking, "higher up" females in the Church tend to wind up ex'ed if they don't suck up to the Brethren. A good example of this can be found in the fairly recent, utterly ridiculous pander-job issued by the new Relief Society prez., wherein she essentially called for a full-fledged return to 1950s anachronism and repression. I'm quite certain that the Brethren were all cheerfully nodding their heads in agreement over this---provided, of course, that they did not order her to give that talk in the first place. It sometimes seems to me that women such as Dew are like marionettes who must dance and twitch according to the whims of their puppetmasters.
The idea that she might actually agree with them never occurred to you?
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Sherri Dew is such an unrepentant boot-lick and tool of the Brethren that I hardly think she counts.
You are such a kind and gracious soul.
Hey, I just call it like I see it. It seems to me that, generally speaking, "higher up" females in the Church tend to wind up ex'ed if they don't suck up to the Brethren. A good example of this can be found in the fairly recent, utterly ridiculous pander-job issued by the new Relief Society prez., wherein she essentially called for a full-fledged return to 1950s anachronism and repression. I'm quite certain that the Brethren were all cheerfully nodding their heads in agreement over this---provided, of course, that they did not order her to give that talk in the first place. It sometimes seems to me that women such as Dew are like marionettes who must dance and twitch according to the whims of their puppetmasters.
The idea that she might actually agree with them never occurred to you?
What, she agrees that women should never be able to hold the priesthood, that women's primary role in life is to bear children, and that education and career success ought to be secondary concerns? Is this what you are suggesting that she "agrees with"?
What, she agrees that women should never be able to hold the priesthood, that women's primary role in life is to bear children, and that education and career success ought to be secondary concerns? Is this what you are suggesting that she "agrees with"?
Yes, that is what faithful women in the church believe. Any woman who carried the Holy Ghost with her loves this fact, and embraces it.
We only take two things out of this world with us into the next one. Our name and our posterity. A righteous woman who is able to surround herself with her righteous posterity, who look to her as the teacher of their mortal existance, will find herself exalted and worshipped in the world to come.
Women should take pleasure in their inante ability to nurture and care for their fellow children of God, and find their work and glory in bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of the same.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato