The irony of the Ordain Women movement
| A group of Mormons aptly calling themselves Ordain Women are continuing their grassroots campaign aimed at changing the church’s policy barring women from its alleged priesthood. We could understand why concerned outsiders might pressure the church to forsake its sexist practices. Mormons, drilled from birth to obey and never to question their (male) leaders, are hardly likely to do so for themselves.* |  Ironic colors intended |
We find it curious, however, when believing Mormons mount a grassroots campaign. The LDS Church’s foundational claim is that God guides it by revelation. A grassroots campaign in effect denies that claim. Why remain in a religion whose foundational claim you reject?
We can suggest some possible reasons: family pressure, social pressure, social advantages, dependence on church welfare, group security, sunk cost fallacy, and post-purchase rationalization, to name a few. All of these are quite human and therefore quite understandable, even though none argues for an iota of truth to the religion itself.
We can suggest some possible reasons: family pressure, social pressure, social advantages, dependence on church welfare, group security, sunk cost fallacy, and post-purchase rationalization, to name a few. All of these are quite human and therefore quite understandable, even though none argues for an iota of truth to the religion itself.
*Thus it is no wonder that a 2011 Pew Research Center poll, which the LDS Church cites in its defense, found that 90 percent of Mormon women and 84 percent of Mormon men oppose ordaining women.
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