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Mormon Church: Waddyamean women don’t sort of have priesthood?

10/30/2015

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Mormon Church: Women have
​priesthood kind of sort of

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On the heels of excommunicating Kate Kelly and others for pressuring church leaders to ask God if it’s okay to ordain women to the priesthood, last week the Mormon Church published yet another online essay, this one asserting that, well, in a way, Mormon women already hold the priesthood, at least, to an extent, sort of.

To see women using their sort-of priesthood, asserts the essay, you need look no further than inside Mormon temples, provided, of course, that you are permitted inside, where women perform for women* an “initiatory ordinance.” The policy undoubtedly exists to reduce the discomfort of having a stranger touch your bare skin inches from parts you wouldn’t normally allow a stranger’s hands near unless the stranger first took you out to dinner and the next day sent you flowers.

Note this attempt at slippery language, about two-thirds of the way into the essay:

“In some respects, the relationship between Latter-day Saint women and priesthood has remained remarkably constant since Joseph Smith’s day.”
The astute reader will recognize that the use of remarkably to modify constant admits that there have been changes.

​And indeed there have been. Early Mormon women performed priesthood ordinances not just inside but outside of the temple. That’s why women perform priesthood ordinances in a number of Mormon splinter groups like the TLC, the polygamist cult in which author Joanne Hanks spent seven years of her adult life. It’s one of many ways in which such groups more closely resemble the original church than does today’s mainstream version.
* And men for men.
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