{"id":8450,"date":"2014-06-25T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:47:22","slug":"worldwide-discussion-priests-must-have-a-penis-mormon-church-declares-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=8450","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Discussion:
PRIESTS MUST HAVE PENISES,
MORMON CHURCH DECLARES AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, June 23, 2014 Mormon judges excommunicated women\u2019s ordination activist Kate Kelly,” a story posted on the Internet by ThinkProgress.org<\/span><\/strong><\/a> said.<\/p>\n

In the ThinkProgress story, a statement released by Kelly\u2019s group, Ordain Women<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, is quoted as saying that \u201cjudges within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) sent Kelly an email yesterday informing her that she has been \u2018excommunicated for conduct contrary to the laws and order of the LDS Church\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly, the ThinkProgress story said, \u201cis reportedly no longer allowed to \u2018take the sacrament, hold a Church calling, give a talk in Church, offer a public prayer in behalf of the class or congregation in a Church meeting, or vote in the sustaining of Church officers\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0international human rights lawyer said she was crying and sobbing so much that she \u201ccouldn\u2019t really read all the words\u201d of her excommunication notice. Kelly later\u00a0told NBC News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>: \u201cI guess I\u2019m a delusional optimist, because to the end I thought they would do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly is reported to have \u201cgathered women by the hundreds to march up to the doors of a meeting of the all-male priesthood and demand entry (they were denied<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>). Still, when her efforts were combined with what appeared to be concessions on the part of the church \u2014 including finally allowing a women to lead a prayer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> at one of their conferences \u2014 some concluded<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> that the church might be shifting its traditionally hardline stance against women in church leadership,\u201d the ThinkProgress story went on.<\/p>\n

The Mormon Church, of course, famously excluded black men from the priesthood throughout its long history as well, until 1976, when its leader announced that he had received \u201ca revelation\u201d from God that black males were henceforth to be considered eligible for be priests.<\/p>\n

No such revelation has been made by God regarding women, however, judging from the pronouncements\u00a0of Mormon Church leaders on this subject.<\/p>\n

Mormon church teaching states that men and women have been assigned different, distinct but complementary roles in human life. Women are to support the men who are in power, because \u201cthe Lord has put it that way,\u201d the church says.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. God—who apparently has a penis—requires all of his priests in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and the Roman Catholic Church as well) to also have a penis. Priests, and even bishops, in the Episcopal Church may, however have vaginas (but only as of a few years ago, when God apparently changed His mind with regard to certain, but to all, of his Christian denominations.)<\/p>\n

Female rabbis are allowed in the Jewish religion, and female ulamas are allowed in the Islamic tradition, and female ministers are allowed in most other Christian denominations, such as the Lutheran Church or the Presbyterian Church. The Baptist church is not too fond of the idea, and God appears to be\u00a0very strict when it comes to both the Mormon and the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

So how does this work? Does God give different directions to different religious denominations? Or are some denominations violating the Law of God by allowing some of their leaders to have vaginas? Or is it the other way around? Are some denominations violating the Law of God by requiring all priests to have penises?<\/p>\n

What do you think God wants with regard to all of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, June 23, 2014 Mormon judges excommunicated women\u2019s ordination activist Kate Kelly,” a story posted on the Internet by ThinkProgress.org said. In the ThinkProgress story, a statement released by Kelly\u2019s group, Ordain Women, is quoted as saying that \u201cjudges within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) sent Kelly an email yesterday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}