The Stake President is worried that nursing mother will unduly arouse the members of the Priesthood. I bet the Stake President was sufficiently aroused that he had to end the madness.
As a young Presbyterian mother, I sat in the back of the church and quietly nursed my baby son, with a small, lightweight baby blanket covering both of us.
One of my special friends, an older lady, smiled at us and said that she, too, had nursed her babies in church. NOBODY had a problem with it.
Come to think of it, I don't remember anyone nursing their babies during Mormon Sacrament. There was a special room for nursing mothers, where they could hear the meeting. Several mothers nursed their babies during Relief Society, however. There was a much friendlier atmosphere there.
It may be that I have a faulty detector but my BS meter is screaming at me. It's not that I don't believe that there are men who act like this. It's just that the extreme caricature with zero corroboration always puts me on guard.
Not in the least, I'm surprised by the lack of artful misogyny. Don't they normally put their misogyny in a nice box with a deep blue paper wrapping and a red bow?
I was afraid to cover with a light blanket, for fear it might interfere with my baby's breathing. It was my first baby and I was was very protective like that. I just let everybody look! I was feeding a baby, not stripping. Deal with it, world.
But at church, I went into the nursing area. Can't let the Priesthood get a glimpse of boob!
Mormons who choose to Not conform-comply with even the silliest of directives (let alone 'commandments') should leave the church (everyone should!), their voices won't ever shift the leaders.
I hope this set of very unfortunate circumstances, created by an idiot male, causes this new mother and her family to question their way right out of being Mormons.
A nursing baby exposes no nipple and no more breast than a modest swimsuit.
and to blame the mother for the impure thoughts of males of any age and challenges of recovering porn addicts (which the article implies there are a huge number of them!)...preposterous!
These people live in the Dark Ages....study yourselves out to freedom, young family!
I'm pretty sure this 'Bishop' thought himself as a tad bit uncomfortable because there (if true) were complaints;
But, it shows the reactionary nature of LDS discipline, their unwillingness to invoke simple common sense, even if it means a teensy, tiny bit of change or adapting new ground.