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Date: March 20, 2024 07:17PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4oZ-otMOVL/?img_index=1The response has been quick to develop- and mostly negative
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/03/20/lds-church-responds-social-media"The overwhelming majority, however, explained that the statement felt at odds with their experience in the 17 million-member church.
“As active women,” @jentheginger wrote, “we have tried to have our voices heard. I’ve spoken in person with ward [congregational] and stake male leaders to ask for more female voices in the room to no avail.”
Words like “dismissive” and “gaslighting” peppered the comments, many of which went out of their way to avoid demonizing Latter-day Saint leaders and Dennis specifically."
"In more recent years, Latter-day Saint apostles have begun to speak more and more about women exercising priesthood power, believed to be God’s authority given to his children. Dennis, first counselor Relief Society General Presidency, referred to this teaching in her speech Sunday.
Priesthood “offices,” however, are exclusive to men and teenage boys.
This distinction is important, said Kristine Haglund, a writer and former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
While “distinguishing between priesthood power and priesthood office in this way may feel empowering for many LDS women,” Haglund said, “the fact that women’s priesthood power is exercised exclusively with the permission and at the direction of men who hold priesthood office feels constraining and disempowering to many."