I read with sadness this morning that one of the board members of Ordain Women was recently given a choice by her stake president: either quit the board and take down all of her past posts that advocate for Mormon women’s priesthood ordination, or else lose her temple recommend.
“I do not believe that temple recommends should be used as leverage to censor ideas or silence advocacy, but if I hadn’t complied, I would have missed my brother’s recent temple wedding,” wrote April Young Bennett at the Mormon feminist blog The Exponent.
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