Updated essay on Joseph Smith - women & priesthood

[_2bizE]

So, if there is no doctrinal reason for not ordaining women to a priesthood office , why not do it?

Why does this problem feel like Augusta National Golf Club and not allowing women?

[_SteelHead]

Find me where a woman has ever been given "keys" as part of being set apart, and it is worth noting that female teachers are set apart as teachers, young men are ordained to the priesthood. Different terms, different connotations.

[_Gray Ghost]

Notions of priesthood derive from the Tanakh. And of course there, there was no connection between holding priesthood and being a prophet. Priesthood roles were confined to the temple. Returning to that model might be one way forward.

Gray Ghost, thanks for showing up again. Losing interest over at MD&D is a direct result of your disappearance.

This is an interesting point. But the problem of men running the show and women assisting, at most, would still persist.

Thanks Stem, good to talk to you! I suspect if anything they'll probably come up with more and more ways of seeing women as holding priesthood. That's the direction they seem to be going. :)