Posted by:
SusieQ#1
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Date: May 03, 2017 07:58PM
For some reason, there are many female true believers that accept their role in the LDS Church as subservient and secondary to the male. They seem to like it that way as they believe that is what Heavenly Father wants for them. It's a central core to their role. (I tried to accept it, really did, but it just never set well with me.)
While women do wear the same Holy Melchizedek Priesthood garment (same markings, same promises), placed on them by covenant in the temple, their roles are very different in the doctrine.
And while a man cannot receive his celestial glory (in the Celestial Kingdom), without a woman, her role is, again, very different in the doctrine.
I've written several long posts on the Role of Women in the LDS Church over the years that keep her in her place, and only allowed her to serve under the men. They have no individual rights as females that are equal to the men.
True, men and women are different. In Mormonism, the doctrine for men is to take the leadership roles in church and the home, and women (often referred to as "more spiritual") are to bear the children, maintain the home and support the men.
The only place there is any equality between men and women(and that is not total) is in the temple, making the same covenants, or similar ones. For those that do not know, they sit in separate sections in all the temple sessions - which facilitates the ability to make slightly different covenants, one of which is to follow their husband as he follows the Lord (slightly paraphrased). Women make this very serious covenant by raising their hand to the square in the temple.
It is spelled out very clearly in their "The Family a Proclamation to the World"...
https://www.lds.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-and-church-history-student-study-guide/the-worldwide-church/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=engThis is the line-in-the-sand statement that makes a clear declaration that male and female are eternal from the preexistence and only marriage between a man and woman is acceptable to Heavenly Father.
Women have no recourse for an grievance in the LDS Church that is viable. They do not have an equal say in anything. The men are the priesthood holders and are the only ones in charge. Even in Relief Society, the women only serve under the approval of the men supervising the organization.