Provo • With little fanfare but much trepidation, members of the Ordain Women movement attended their first-ever LDS general priesthood session Saturday night — albeit at satellite sites and not at the main meeting in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center.
Seven women, accompanied by three men, entered Brigham Young University’s Marriott Center to watch the broadcast of the session. Another 13 women later joined the group.
Eight women also succeeded in Ogden, as did others in Logan, Tempe, Ariz., Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area.
However, Ordain Women, which is pushing for female ordination, tweeted that their supporters were turned away at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City and in Atlanta.
Lehi resident Abby Hansen, a BYU graduate, said that as she listened to the counsel of church leaders during the meeting, she couldn’t help thinking "we belong here."
"It was pretty powerful for a lot of us," she said, "to hear women’s voices singing along with the men."
Hansen and other Ordain Women members were met at the door of the Marriott Center by a bishop and his wife, who told Hansen and the other women that the session was for priesthood holders.
When Hansen insisted that they wanted to enter and pledged not to disrupt the meeting, Karen Roberts said, "We’re not going to stop you."
Hansen hugged her and then entered the priesthood meeting, traditionally attended only by men and boys age 12 and older.
Inside the Marriott Center, men watched as the women walked down the stairs to take seats among the hundreds attending. There was no mention of their presence from those presiding, but men and boys near them took pictures on their phones.
Tiffany Jones, a BYU student who met a different woman at an entrance, said the woman tried hard to dissuade her, advising her to "listen to the words of the prophet." She entered anyway.
BYU student Jake Loveland said he hadn’t even noticed the women and didn’t mind their presence.
"The messages are for everyone," he said.
John Applesmith echoed that sentiment. "They show it online, anyway."
A smattering of men wore lavender or purple shirts in solidarity with the women.
M’lisa Martinez of Ordain Women described a similar experience at the Rock Cliff LDS Stake Center, a regional meetinghouse in Ogden, where a woman tried to persuade seven women to not enter the session. They were joined by one man.
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
This was no big deal. Women have been attending the session for years. It is shown in various chapels throughout the world and women have attended. Of course, it is basically for men who have the priesthood. Not really much for women. I suppose that men can crash the relief society meeting too. But I don't think that they would nor would they feel welcome. Sometimes there just needs to be a separation of the sexes for brotherhood or sisterhood.
Of course, the other problem is: if too many women come, there may not be any room for some of the men. Not good at all.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
why me wrote:This was no big deal. Women have been attending the session for years. It is shown in various chapels throughout the world and women have attended. Of course, it is basically for men who have the priesthood. Not really much for women. I suppose that men can crash the relief society meeting too. But I don't think that they would nor would they feel welcome. Sometimes there just needs to be a separation of the sexes for brotherhood or sisterhood.
Of course, the other problem is: if too many women come, there may not be any room for some of the men. Not good at all.
So the spin cycle begins on the LDS washing machine...but just for the record why me...in ten or twenty years when LDS women do get the opportunity to hold the PH...was it ever an official teaching that they could not hold it?
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Why Me is on to something (but he isn't aware that he is on to something).
Women have had access to the content of the Priesthood session for decades. So why is it such a big deal to the Church, if the women simply want to hear it live and in person?
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
Bazooka wrote:Why Me is on to something (but he isn't aware that he is on to something).
Women have had access to the content of the Priesthood session for decades. So why is it such a big deal to the Church, if the women simply want to hear it live and in person?
I think that it is good to have separate venues for men and for women. Why must it be coed? For example, the women who crashed the byu thing. Here we had a bunch of guys who had the priesthood who suddenly found themselves with young women. What goes through the mind of young men and young women? Guys begin to impress the ladies and the ladies begin to flirt. One cannot excape such things when it is eoed. I think that if I were 21 I would love to crash the women's meeting. Why not? Cute young women all around for me to look at. Maybe I can even find a date. Such is life at 21.
The women who wish to crash the priesthood meeting just don't get it. It is for guys to be together without women so they can feel the bond of brothers.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
Bazooka wrote:Why Me is on to something (but he isn't aware that he is on to something).
Women have had access to the content of the Priesthood session for decades. So why is it such a big deal to the Church, if the women simply want to hear it live and in person?
I think that it is good to have separate venues for men and for women. Why must it be coed? For example, the women who crashed the byu thing. Here we had a bunch of guys who had the priesthood who suddenly found themselves with young women. What goes through the mind of young men and young women? Guys begin to impress the ladies and the ladies begin to flirt. One cannot excape such things when it is eoed. I think that if I were 21 I would love to crash the women's meeting. Why not? Cute young women all around for me to look at. Maybe I can even find a date. Such is life at 21.
The women who wish to crash the priesthood meeting just don't get it. It is for guys to be together without women so they can feel the bond of brothers.
The better question, why do any LDS groupings need to be segregated along gender lines? What is served by that? Is premarital sex going to be averted if one hour a week, and two hours on a Saturday night in early April and early October, the genders are separated? The only reason for the LDS separating them is essentially to indoctrinate the separate groups that the males are superior and the females subordinate in the eyes of Mormon god, that the females should submit to the decisions of the males. The institutionally-based segregation serves no other purpose, and for that, it is pernicious.
Who cares if the women attended the priesthood meeting. Boring is boring, shared by all in attendance.
The intolerable would be if the Bitches got ICE CREAM afterwards. That would be going too far!!!
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Why would anyone want to attend priesthood session? It's saturday night. I know many men who would gladly give up their seat at priesthood session to one of these women.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
why me wrote:This was no big deal. Women have been attending the session for years. It is shown in various chapels throughout the world and women have attended.
No, they haven't. Not sure why you're bs'ing, but please stop.
