Comments on: Seeking for Mormon Feminism – Part I

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:21:29 +0000

Kaimi, I’m exceedingly late to the party but wanted to thank you for the post just the same. If I come up with anything intelligent to add (after having some sleep, hmmm sleep) I shall.

Certainly discussing HM wasn’t taboo when I was growing up and mentioning her isn’t even here a stone’s throw from temple square. I think postulating on her particular duties is where people get all edgy. Maybe.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:40:15 +0000

Mojo, I don’t think the topic is as taboo as you seem to think it is. I was assigned a term paper on Heavenly Mother in a class at BYU a few years ago. It really wasn’t an issue for anyone.

That’s good to hear and I truly hope I’m wrong.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:32:27 +0000

Kristine, I think your taboo meter is off.

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:31:20 +0000

Mojo, I don’t think the topic is as taboo as you seem to think it is. I was assigned a term paper on Heavenly Mother in a class at BYU a few years ago. It really wasn’t an issue for anyone.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:58:28 +0000

Not yet, Mojo.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:58:47 +0000

Has there been someone excommunicated for speaking out in (rather emphatic) public opposition against Prop 8? (I honestly don’t know, which is why I’m asking.) If so, I can see the parallel. If not, I can’t.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:35:54 +0000

MoJo,

But there’s an obvious parallel for Prop 8 opposition, too — Sonia Johnson, who was excommunicated for (rather emphatic) public opposition to the church’s position on the ERA.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:23:05 +0000

By: Kristine

Kristine — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:41:38 +0000

MoJo, I completely agree; sorry I misread you. Maybe I’m just not paying enough attention to discussions of MiH in the bloggernacle, or my taboo-meter doesn’t work very well, so I only notice explicit public opposition to an announced church directive :)

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:05 +0000

Kevin, I’ll be interested in seeing it, even if I have to buy a subscription. :cheeky grin:

Kristine, I was under the impression this discussion was about taboo topics such as the Mother in Heaven (or, as I prefer to call her, the Goddess), not Prop 8. Regardless, I don’t see Prop 8 as being taboo in the least bit, but I do see frank and wondrous discussion of the Goddess to be so.