Betty, Pat, Lady Bird, Jackie, Mamie, Bess, Eleanor.

That, of course, is the list of all the first names of US Presidential wives back to 1932, in correct reverse chronological order, and done from memory, of which mine is nothing to write home about.

Now try to do the same thing for wives of the LDS presidents for the last 80 years. It's a shorter list, even. Ten names will get you back to 1918.

The number of names you won't recall will tell you all you need to know about how important women are in LDS Inc, their rhetoric notwithstanding.

LDS Inc ignores gay women because it ignores all women. Even their homophobia is sexist. How bad is that?

Mrs. Monson
Mrs. Hinckley
Mrs. Hunter
Mrs. Benson
Mrs. Kimball
Mrs. Lee
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Mackay

see...

That's the truth.

That is funny. When I was teaching the Kennedy assassination I gave a quiz and one of the questions was what was JFK's wife's name. The answer I got from several was 'Mrs. Kennedy'.Yeah, duh. I'm sure that is the name she was given at her christening.

No, it would be
Sister Monson
Sister Hinckley
Sister Hunter
Sister Benson
Sister Kimball
Sister Lee
Sister Smith
Sister McKay

francis monson
marjorie hinckley
inez hunter
flora benson

jessie mckay?

What about Camilla Kimball?

I know the first names of every missionary that ever served.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2010 12:31AM by moira.

It goes all the way back to Mrs. Jesus

But that's just a rumor. ;)

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For some reason, every time I try to post I get the "you're using a forbidden word" response. Anyhoo, all I was trying to say was that while you're certainly correct that women are not treated well by this cult, the wives of U.S. presidents vs. LDS presidents is not a valid analogy

all their first names are the same: "Sister"..that's reformed egyptian for "cow"