My issue with women’s rights and Mormonism is that a woman, according to LDS theology, cannot get to heaven unless her husband guides her there.
In LDS doctrine, neither the man OR the woman can reach full exhaltation alone; she can’t get there without him…and
he can’t get there without her. " Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nether the woman without the man, in the Lord." 1 Cor. 11:11. We really mean that part.
However, if one member of a couple messes up, then it will be possible for the other one to get there–with someone else. There is nothing that prohibits a woman from going to heaven exactly the same as a man does, LJ.
Related to that is that a mother cannot give a “blessing” to her children, because her husband has the “priesthood.”
No, a woman cannot give a priesthood blessing to her child, because women don’t hold the priesthood. She can, however, pray for her child and have her faith rewarded. So how is that different in Catholicism? Well, except for the fact that in Catholicism the child’s father can’t give a priesthood blessing to his child, either?
In polygamy, a woman had no right to put her foot down, and refuse to accept becoming a co-wife. She was basically forced to accept the situation.
Sorry, but no. In actuallity, the wife had pretty much all the power there. She could be pressured, but if she said no, it was no, the vast majority of the time. That power was reserved to her.
And, the most revealing thing is that a woman who has been married cannot re-marry in the temple, unless her previous husband was unworthy. And this is all related to polygamy, and marriage “for eternity.”
LJ, it would be a really good idea if you got the facts before you make statements like this.
Yes, Utah was an early state to advocate the vote for women, BUT, were women actually free to vote for who they wanted, or were they controlled by their husbands?
Oh, now…that’s exactly the **** that the Feds used to dictate to Utah when they told 'em to take the vote AWAY from the women before they could be a state.
You can, of course, ask the question, but the answer is—(and I’m still trying REALLY hard to curb my temper…) it was, as it remains, a SECRET BALLOT, my friend. As in…once in the voting booth nobody knows who voted how. Mormon women were at that time, as they are now, better educated than almost any other group of women in America. (Jewish and atheist women are running ahead of us by a wee bit…and Catholic women fall far behind.). They were doctors. They were writers and artists…and they were also stubborn, opinionated and quite outspoken. They didn’t put up with much.
The point is, LJ, Mormon women could vote before almost any other American woman could…and they excercised that right freqently, and independently. They had a LOT more say in their personal and family lives that you want to think they did, they are no more dependent upon their husbands for exhaltation than their husbands are upon them, and I have news for you: a Mormon woman can marry again in the Temple if she chooses to–SHE gets to decide whether she wants to keep the one she had, or try again with someone else. She can get a cancellation of sealing; she doesn’t have to wait for her husband to do it.
…speaking of marrital rights, a Mormon woman whose husband has dumped her for someone else CAN divorce him, kick him to the curb and find someone worthy of her–and become sealed to him in the Temple.
A Catholic woman, evidently, can’t. If the Catholic guy runs off and fools around with someone else, leaving her behind, she’s…stuck, unless she can get a priest to declare that her original marriage was never really a marriage. Which, I understand, isn’t all that easy.
Hmmn. Oddly enough, that doesn’t sound as if the MORMON is the one who is denied the rights.
Just one little dig I couldn’t resist. In some cultures, it is acceptable for a man in a sterile marriage to allow a best friend, or brother, access to his wife for the purpose of conceiving a descendant.