In Mormonism, Yesterday's Heresy is Today’s Orthodoxy

Last month I published a column about how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had just added an editorial note to a February 1973 article titled "Strengthening the Patriarchal Order in the Home." That article, the magazine editors' note suggested, was no longer fully in line with the Church's values or teachings. "Articles in the magazines archive may reflect practices and language of an earlier time," the editors said, before redirecting readers to some of the Church's more recent statements on gender and the family. Well, it turns out there is quite a backstory here.