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Ray and Sheldon, I’m glad to hear that there are occasionally situations that allow ushering to be a non-priesthood assignment.
As an aside, I remember that when I was made a Teacher back in the 70’s kind of feeling odd about losing the opportunity to pass the sacrament, and then having my most visible contribution being operating the doors. That seemed like a demotion. But I came to appreciate the preparation of the sacrament specifically for being behind-the-scenes. I spent a lot of Sunday mornings in the church’s kitchen preparing the bread and water for Junior Sunday School with another Teacher or two, with no adult in sight. I think, in a way, that was a better lesson in church responsibility than the passing assignment had been when I was a Deacon.
I was thinking about this very thing last Sunday when my 3 year old handed the water cups to his grandparents. Since anyone can pass it to anyone in the pews, why does it require the priesthood to take it from the table to the members? So I see now that it doesn’t. Now my mind races through all the other things that only priesthood holders are allowed to do that doesn’t require the priesthood. Makes me mad how sexist our church is. Looking back at the Primary days I always thought that it was rather silly that the boys and girls were separated into separate classes the final year. Back then it was the Blazers and the Merry Misses. I’m not sure what they call them now. I have also had problems with sticking around all 3 hours of church as of late. I will go to sacrament and I will usually attend Sunday School. Priesthood has always been hard for me to stick around. It is mainly hard because guys have a tendency to speak so very monotone and it bores me to no end. Men have a tendency to speak slower as well so they talk extra slow in Priesthood. At least in Sunday school the guys will shorten their boring stories and talk faster to keep up with the ladies.
I would be in favor of giving the women priesthood for the sake of having a revised Sunday School program that involved both the teachings of Sunday school while also teaching priesthood principals. That way we can do away with the 3rd hour and only have to be at church for 2. Or maybe even 1 hour if we just had Sacrament meeting taking the sacrament and do away with the talks. Just do sacrament and then the sundayschool/priesthood lesson. We could have all the children dismissed for Primary right after sacrament and then they can have fun for an hour and only have to be in those stiff itchy church clothes for 1 hour.
I’ve heard it theorized that if they gave women priesthood many men who feels the pressures of being a good priesthood leader in the home will no longer bother to fit the standards. They would become drunks who wouldn’t care about anything because the wonderful wife has it all taken care of. They keep the Priesthood to the men to keep the men in line.
Something I remember hearing from listening to some of the old Mormon Story podcasts is that all 15 top men of the church would have to agree in order to make any major changes in the priesthood. Some of the old stubborn men had to die off before they stopped restricting the priesthood from the African brothers of the church.
Maybe one day stubborn old men will die off and we will have 15 people who are okay with women in the priesthood. Maybe one day we will have a woman Prophet. As it stands right now it probably won’t happen anytime soon.
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