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Article: Women's role in LDS Church is questioned
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2005
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OREM -- A University of Utah professor -- and excommunicated
member of the LDS Church -- encouraged a roomful of religious-minded
listeners to critically examine the role gender plays in the church.
Margaret Toscano, who spoke Friday at Utah Valley State College as
part of the school's fifth annual Mormon Studies Conference, focused
her remarks on the conflict between male-dominated leadership and
gender equality in the church.
"If the male always presides, even in love and righteousness,
isn't the other partner subordinate, at least in rule, if not in
rank?" Toscano asked. "And if so, does this lead to inequality that
contradicts the ideal set forth in the Book of Mormon?"
Toscano examined ...