On April 5, members of Ordain Women will again request tickets to the LDS Priesthood session. In March, the LDS Newsroom issued a pre-emptive statement that both contradicts current church doctrine and sends a confusing message regarding the manner in which the LDS Church makes decisions.
In their arguments against female ordination, church members often claim that “the church is not a democracy” and thus members do not have the right to petition the prophet for revelation, an argument I understand. If a church is truly led by God, a top-down method of revelation makes sense. But the church seems entirely fine with democratic majority rule when it benefits the status quo.
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