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December 18, 2012

The Largest Mormon Feminist Action Ever

Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches

It was, we believe, the largest concerted Mormon feminist action in history.

Thousands of Mormon women from the South Pacific to Europe to North America bucked convention and wore pants to church meetings on Sunday to manifest their support for greater dialogue on the status of women within the LDS Church, and Mormon men wore purple in solidarity. 

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