just me wrote:All you gotta do to go to all the Relief Society stuff is be the bishop. Bishops can go anywhere.
They can sit in the back but they cannot (according to 21st century Western etiquette) participate.
Why not?
Frankly, I think it is silly. If men want to come to a cooking class, why not?
If women want to go to a car repair class, more power to them!
My husband is a better cook than I am! He cooks more of the family meals than I do right now because of our work schedules.
He is 6'4, and I don't think that anyone would mistake him for a "female wannabe"...particularly when he answers the door before one of his daughters is going out on a date!
Drifting wrote:We had a transvestite turn up for Church one Sunday. The Bishop did not know what to do when it came to split for Priesthood and Relief Society. At the end of services the Bishop took him/her into the office and told him/her not to return.
This is so sad. I understand that the church and many members have difficulty with the very idea of transgendered folks. There really isn't a place in "the plan" for people who don't fit neatly into the rigid sex/gender roles ascribed by the church. I just think it's sad that when faced with a puzzle like this, the bishop couldn't figure out some way of accommodating the person's gender identity. I mean, I get that there would be so-called "worthiness" issues with regard to callings, the temple etc. But, is it really too much to ask that a person just be able to sit in a regular church meeting?
Frankly, I think it is silly. If men want to come to a cooking class, why not?
If women want to go to a car repair class, more power to them!
My husband is a better cook than I am! He cooks more of the family meals than I do right now because of our work schedules.
He is 6'4, and I don't think that anyone would mistake him for a "female wannabe"...particularly when he answers the door before one of his daughters is going out on a date! :wink:
Can you ask hubby if he would like to host an EQ puff pastry party? At the party, they would all learn how to make turnovers and discuss football. Please return and report. Thanks!
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
lulu wrote:but then the penises would try to take over.]
I don't believe that would happen.
Yes, it would, and I know my penises, lol.
Now, sisters show up at Priesthood Meeting when they are consecrating oil.
Discuss. :smile:
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
lulu wrote:Yes, it would, and I know my penises, lol.
Now, sisters show up at Priesthood Meeting when they are consecrating oil.
Discuss. :smile:
The sisters are not allowed into the Chapel kitchen when the young priesthood holders are preparing the Sacrament. I'm not kidding.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Drifting wrote:The sisters are not allowed into the Chapel kitchen when the young priesthood holders are preparing the Sacrament. I'm not kidding.
You must be out in the sticks. Most ward buildings I've been in have a little sacrament preparation room with a sink and cupboards full of little cups and the trays.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
lulu wrote:Yes, it would, and I know my penises, lol.
Now, sisters show up at Priesthood Meeting when they are consecrating oil.
Discuss. :smile:
The sisters are not allowed into the Chapel kitchen when the young priesthood holders are preparing the Sacrament. I'm not kidding.
I'd go in there and sit my female ass on every surface...
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
lulu wrote:Yes, it would, and I know my penises, lol.
Now, sisters show up at Priesthood Meeting when they are consecrating oil.
Discuss. :smile:
The sisters are not allowed into the Chapel kitchen when the young priesthood holders are preparing the Sacrament. I'm not kidding.
Uh...the sisters in our ward are...or at least ONE sister is. My friend, Karen, bakes the bread for the sacrament. She makes homemade bread every week and takes it in for them to use. I always wish I could take more than just one piece. LOL It is good bread!
liz3564 wrote:Uh...the sisters in our ward are...or at least ONE sister is. My friend, Karen, bakes the bread for the sacrament. She makes homemade bread every week and takes it in for them to use. I always wish I could take more than just one piece. LOL It is good bread!
One open mike Sunday the first person up was a member visitor who spent five minutes of her 'testimony' lambasting the ward for using brown bread for the Sacrament. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, but I don't think it was the spirit...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
