There is something about the greasy-haired, phony-smiling, faux-macho, yet extremely humble Priesthood holders that I associated with for so much of my adult life that makes me wonder what women see in them...
Clearly, she needs to leave her neighborhood more often, or state?
Or, is she lusting after all the worthy priesthood holders at church? She's a priesthood cougar! Time to see the bishop, and, keep your hands to yourself while you're in there!
Being a lifelong liar and showing how good you have become at it. Like some of the SP car dealers in SLC, they could sell a car with no transmission in it to a CULT member because they are excellent liars. There have been some as good at lying as JS and Breedum Young, but that is how you become any upper level anything in the CULT.
Missionary service fosters the ability to figure out how to present unsavory facts in flattering terms that make them even seem desirable. It's a gift!
My dear Catholic wife would take her to task on that. All the priesthood holders she went to high school with treated her like second class garbage,....not very attractive. I on the other hand, a beer drinking, loves to cuss, apostate & former elder, treats her like the treasured Queen she is.
when I was in YW we had a couple lessons as Laurels about how marrying a nonmember would mean that he might be an ok husband and father but never better than "okay."
the problem was, we were in NC and there aren't many Mormons around period and everyone in the class but one was in a first gen member family and two had nevermo dads. I myself had 2 atheist grandfathers and I knew they were wonderful hubbies & fathers. I had my parents as evidence.
My husband and I have been together for 27+ years (married 26-1/2) and my attraction to him was not and is still not connected to whether or not he held the priesthood. Sh!t like that from the pulpit at GC will just add more crap for TBM women to put their husbands down with.
And how the hell would they know if the guy is really a worthy priesthood holder? Because he goes to church every Sunday and has a temple recommend? Up until about 12 years ago, my FIL was able to maintain the facade of a "worthy priesthood holder." He was a lifelong church employee and bishop/stake president but something happened on the senior mission he was serving with my MIL that caused him to be excommunicated for "lifelong struggles with same-sex attraction but never acted on them."
Yes, it was something like never more attractive than when he is exercising his priesthood worthily. That might be true if you are a woman who (a) thinks power is the most attractive feature in a mate, and (b) thinks "priesthood power" is really a thing.
I found the quote offensive and hurtful because it was specifically calculated to manipulate men who are not into the church (like me). It is something that TBM women can hold over their husbands heads, just another way to make us feel worthless and like our wives would really like to be married to someone else.
The church is hell on women at times, but it is just as tough on men who aren't totally into it. Demeaning and hurts all around.
My pregnant wife is far more attractive than the most attractive priesthood member on the face of the planet. Until the Morg grants the priesthood to women, that statement will be inherently false to heterosexual males.