Forget Priesthood — Some Mormon Feminists Seek a Middle Way

In The Salt Lake Tribune, Peggy Fletcher Stack reports on “LDS women pushing for change.” Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, a New Zealand Mormon, wrote in an online essay that “neither the formal leadership… nor the informal influence of women within the community are immediately apparent.” Feminist Mormon women “have embraced a careful approach short of ordination, trying to help the church they love navigate the gender storm that seems to building all around,” Stack writes.

 

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