“What did President Kimball think about pressure regarding the pre-1978 priesthood ban?”

http://blog.fairmormon.org/2016/01/12/what-did-president-kimball-think-about-pressure-regarding-the-pre-1978-priesthood-ban/

This isn’t, of course, merely a historical issue.  There are those who believe, or who claim to believe, that the 1978 revelation on priesthood was received, in large or small part, because pressure from dissidents forced President Kimball to take the matter to the Lord.  And they conclude from that historical notion that dissident pressure today will ultimately lead to a revelation (or, as some frankly put it, a “revelation”) authorizing __________ .  (Fill in the blank with gay marriage in the temples or the ordination of women or repudiation of historical Mormon polygamy or admission that the Book of Mormon is fictional or whatever the favored cause happens to be.)

Greg Smith published this item earlier this year on the FairMormon blog.  In it, a marshals evidence to show that, whatever other merits the claim regarding President Kimball’s revelation might have, President Kimball himself would have disagreed with it.