All you need to see is this:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispa ... t_theologyAnd take a look at any of her numerous writings supporting open homosexual behavior and the redefinition of marriage and gender.
Nice testimony. I can pen one just as poignant and heartfelt. However, nothing in that text alters the actual positions, philosophies, and beliefs she expounds that are utterly incompatible with Church doctrine, including its moral standards regarding human sexuality. The extremely broad and epistemologically ambiguous claims of belief she makes in her testimony are a giveaway. In point of fact, looking it over, it doesn't look, feel, or sound like a traditional LDS testimony at all. Strip away all the terse academic verbiage and preliminary narrative, and what you have is this:
I believe in a merciful, powerful, compassionate God who is available to all who search.
I believe as is taught in 2 Nephi 26: 33: God “denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female . . . all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.”
I believe in prayer, and Mormonism is the language I pray in.
I believe that we are profoundly connected to our ancestors.
I believe in a merciful and powerful God, a Mother and Father in Heaven.
It was within Mormonism that I learned to conceive of God as both male and female, Mother and Father.
(this is a gross perversion and misrepresentation of the concept of a Heavenly family and of a Heavenly Mother, as taught and implied in LDS doctrine, and something clearly plucked from the very fever swamps of second, if not third wave feminism in which she has apparently waded for much of her academic and intellectual life)
I believe in a life of courageous and rigorous searching.
I believe that God neither provides us with nor expects us to have all the answers, but that to live great questions with an open and humble heart is to experience the grace and the presence of God.
This reads and appears as no LDS testimony I've ever seen or heard. Nowhere does she declare that she "knows" anything to be true. Nowhere does she declare that she has a witness within herself as to any of the Church's truth claims. All of her statements are statements of
belief, not sure, inward knowledge given by the Holy Spirit through the principle of direct, personal revelation.
Nowhere does she actually mention that she has a "testimony" of anything in the normative LDS sense of that term. Nowhere does she declare that she knows the Church to be true, and the only true and living Church upon the earth; knows Joseph Smith to be a prophet of God, knows that Joseph did indeed see and speak with the Father and the Son, knows the Book of Mormon to be the word of God, knows Thomas S. Monsen to be the Lord's prophet on the earth today, to the Church and to the world, and his counselors and the Twelve prophets, seers, and revelators; knows that if we follow the Brethren, we will be spiritually safe and protected from the storms and calamities prophesied to come upon the World, knows that the church's standards and teachings on social and cultural issues are of Jesus Christ through his anointed servants, and the "warning voice" of the Brethren to the world is inspired etc.
Indeed, her testimony sounds to me more like a kind of academic bio with religious overtones, than a testimony of any kind most committed Latter day Saints would recognize.