Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away [View all]

[cbayer]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7333/mormon_women_knock_at_the_door__are_turned_away/

October 6, 2013
By HOLLY WELKER


October 5, 2013. Women wait in a stand-by line outside the LDS General Conference; photo by Holly Welker.

On October 5, 2013, almost 200 Mormon women gathered in downtown Salt Lake City on a sunny but crisp Saturday afternoon in order to seek admission to the priesthood session of the semi-annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Calling itself Ordain Women, the group had already requested and been denied tickets to Saturday evening’s male-only priesthood session. Nonetheless the women and their allies walked to the Tabernacle on Temple Square to wait in the stand-by line for last-minute tickets.

Instead they were met by church spokesperson Ruth Todd, who said, “This is no surprise to you, that we won’t be able to offer you a ticket or a place.”

Then, as men and boys strode past them into the Tabernacle where they awaited the opportunity to move to the Conference Center where the session would take place, members of Ordain Women lined up individually or in pairs to request and be denied admission by church representative Doug Peterson.

more at link