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Reasons to agree: If it is a woman telling another woman that being a stay at home mom was better than they expected, from her personal experience, it could be OK. But trying to make a blanket statement that you try applying to all women, devalues them as individuals (at least the ones that don't want to fit that mold). LDS teaching and doctrine are sexist and chauvinistic

LDS teaching and doctrine are sexist and chauvinistic

Reasons to agree : +8 LDS church leaders have been more chauvinistic than most other religious leaders of their time . +6 Elder Erastus Snow said, in the Journal of Discourses, v.5 p.291 said: "Do you uphold your husband before God as your lord? ... No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant." The LDS church has teachings that no other church has, that a wife is supposed obey her husband while her husband obeys the lord.  Polygamy is chauvinistic, no other church has, in the modern western world, allowed polygamy.  Until September 29th, 1978 women were not authorized to give prayers in sacrament meetings . As documented on the Church's website, under " Major Events in President Kimball’s Administration".  It is Chauvinistic to tell women that their place is in the home  (+1). The LDS church tells its female members, more than ...

Reasons to agree : +4 Joseph was 38 when he married Helen Mar Kimball who was only 14. She continued to live with her parents, and never married lived with Joseph. When she grew up she married someone else, and never seemed to have had sex with Joseph. They were trying to just seal people to each other, but still it seems weird that Joseph would seal her to him as a wife. Why didn't he just adopt her as a daughter? Joseph Smith was 28 when he had an affair, or a plural marriage with Fanny Alger who was 16. Joseph Smith was 37 when he married Sarah Ann Whitney who was 17 years old. Statements by William Law and Eliza R. Snow indicate that the marriages included sexual intimacy.[121][122] "Joseph was very free in his talk about his women. He told me one day of a certain girl and remarked, that she had given him more pleasure than any girl he had ever enjoyed. I told him it was horrible to talk like this." - Joseph Smith's close confidant and LDS Church First Councilor, ...