(Photograph from LDS.org)
There are many points in this 9:30-minute video interview where I would want to comment — e.g., I think it very debatable that gender-related wage gaps in Utah or elsewhere in the United States have much directly to do with “patriarchy,” let alone with Mormonism — but I do think that Ms. Kelly’s remarks (e.g., calling for “queer people” to be welcomed into full Church participation apparently regardless of their sexual behavior, and labeling the Church a “cult”) eloquently testify that she’s decisively separated herself from her former faith, and strongly suggest that she’d probably already done so prior to her excommunication:
Here are a couple of things that I wrote about Ms. Kelly earlier in the year:
“Active Latter-day Saints are manifestly inferior specimens of humanity”
“Why on earth would she have wanted it?”
As I’ve said several times, I have no strong feelings one way or the other regarding the ordination of women. Are women as important as men? Yes, absolutely. Are women as competent as men? Yes. Obviously. Are they as spiritually inclined? Yes, and perhaps more so. My only concern is that the Church, on this issue, be aligned with the will of God. If I ever came to the conclusion that God wasn’t involved in the Church, that there is not and never was any real revelation involved in it, that the priesthood was merely a human-devised organizational tool, Mormonism would hold no interest for me. If God were to say tomorrow morning that women are to be ordained, I would be perfectly willing to sustain their ordination.
As for Ms. Kelly, I wish her well. And part of that well-wishing is the hope that, someday, she’ll find her way back to the Lord’s Church.
(Thanks to Doug Ealy for calling this interview to my attention.)
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