I am reading the recent BIO of SWK. A great read by the way. In the Chapter Issues of Concern to Women, Page 166 we read:
In September 1978, President Kimball and his counselors, and the Quorum of the Twelve explained that a Church policy (set in 1967) allowing only Melchizedek or Aaronic Priesthood holders to pray in Sacrament Meetings had no scriptural basis and should be abandoned.
The policy on women praying in SM was in place, and I remember it very well. Some LDS posters found it difficult to believe, and wanted hard evidence, which I think you've provided above.
It seems that was the conclusion in the other more visible change in practice in 1978. To Kimball's credit, he did some good things by recognizing that certain practices were just holdovers from an earlier mindset.
Runtu wrote:It seems that was the conclusion in the other more visible change in practice in 1978. To Kimball's credit, he did some good things by recognizing that certain practices were just holdovers from an earlier mindset.
Such as women not being allowed to hold the Priesthood?
Runtu wrote:It seems that was the conclusion in the other more visible change in practice in 1978. To Kimball's credit, he did some good things by recognizing that certain practices were just holdovers from an earlier mindset.
Such as women not being allowed to hold the Priesthood?
As I was losing my testimony I remember cringing when the 1st Counselor asked me to give the prayer in Sacrament meeting. I remember asking, "Do you really want me to? I'm sure someone else would like to have the blessings..."
I don't remember what I said in the prayer now but I'm sure it was short and to the point.
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" --Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Religion is ignorance reduced to a system.
Ray A wrote:The policy on women praying in SM was in place, and I remember it very well. Some LDS posters found it difficult to believe, and wanted hard evidence, which I think you've provided above.
According to Quinn, the ban was in place from July 1967 until September 29, 1978. I, too, remember it well. After women were again allowed to pray, there was one guy in my ward who would always walk out just before a sister would get up to offer a prayer in sacrament meeting -- used to piss off the women to no end.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)