Tribune guest columnist Natalie Brown says the church's lifting of the priesthood/temple ban against Black members shows the faith may not need dramatic divine decrees to make changes on women and gender issues.
The 1978 lifting of the priesthood/temple ban shows how discussion, debate and consensus in the revelatory process could lead to reforms on, say, women and gender.We routinely hear that it would take a revelation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to change its positions on gender. To some extent, the perceived requirement for a revelation is a product of the) in which then-President Spencer W.
offers a deep look into the lengthy process that led to Kimball and the apostles receiving the priesthood revelation. Much to Kimball’s chagrin, however, the revelation was sometimes retrospectively embellished to include details like divine voices and visitations. Although these embellishments did not occur, they have left a legacy in which we are perhaps overlooking the importance of debate and discussion in the revelatory process. This has implications for other questions that the church continues to confront.
advice itself now seems to have been quietly downgraded by the church’s appointment of women who ignored it to prominent leadership positions
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