Massive Survey Shows LDS Support For Ordination Of Women!

LDS CAB SLC UT USA photo — It seems that only fear prevents the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve from receiving the answer that the Ordain Women organization, in its wisdom, has determined that they must and should receive.
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http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/3313087-155/mormons-are-all-for-female-ordination

The results of this survey are being hailed by advocates of women’s ordination and lamented by opponents.

I can’t see what the big deal is.

I too would support the ordination of women if the Lord commanded it through his prophets. I can think of no reason whatever why women shouldn’t be ordained, except for the fact that, as I and other orthodox Latter-day Saints view the matter, God hasn’t authorized such an action.

But that objection is a very weighty one for benighted folk of my ilk.

Here’s my question:

What kind of mainstream, believing Mormon wouldn’t support the ordination of women if God commanded it through his chosen servants?

So I see no reason for a committed, faithful, orthodox Latter-day Saint to deplore the findings of the survey — unless, of course, as seems likely, they’re deployed as a weapon in an attempt to coerce the Church into ordaining women.

And, while I’m at it, I see absolutely nothing in the survey results to justify the deduction, offered in the linked article by a spokeswoman for Ordain Women, that Mormons are afraid to ask the question of whether women should receive the priesthood.

Where on earth did she come up with that?

If a survey shows that 78% percent of the citizens of France like quiche, that scarcely demonstrates that Charles DeGaulle was allergic to puppies.