It can be really easy to dismiss religious and/or conservative voices when discussing feminist happenings. Heres a current event worth knowing about and sharing: via NYTimes (nytimes/2014/06/12/us/two-activists-within-mormon-church-threatened-with-excommunication.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1): Two Mormons who have gained national attention for pushing their church to ordain women to the priesthood and to accept openly gay members have been notified this week that they face excommunication for apostasy. The two are Kate Kelly, a human rights lawyer who founded the Ordain Women movement, and John P. Dehlin, the creator of a popular online forum for Mormons and a doctoral candidate in psychology who has published his research into the problems faced by gay church members. It is the first time since 1993, when the church ejected a handful of intellectuals known as the “September Six,” that it has moved so forcefully to quash such prominent critical voices. -------- I (along with 500 others) walked with Kate Kelly and Ordain Women in April 2014 to seek entrance into a male-only church meeting (m.sltrib/sltrib/mobile3/57778960-219/women-church-square-ordain.html.csp). I (and thousands of others) listen to John P. Dehlins podcast (mormonstories.org). Both Kate and John are strong in their Mormon faith, but their work toward equality and embracing inclusiveness in the Mormon Church have caused them to be threatened with excommunication from their faith. I invite you to read a bit about this in the links below. (Its getting national and international coverage!) buzzfeed/jimdalrympleii/mormon-activists-who-pushed-for-acceptance-of-women-gays-thr nbcnews/news/us-news/mormon-womens-group-founder-kate-kelly-faces-excommunication-n129151 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655591/Mormon-womens-group-founder-faces-excommunication.html spreaker/user/4650595/radio-from-hell-june-12-2014-pt-2 (radio interview with Kate Kelly) fox13now/2014/06/11/founder-of-ordain-women-says-she-faces-excommunication-from-lds-church/ (news interview with Kate Kelly)
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:33:39 +0000
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