Huffington Post: “Why Mormon Women Don’t Want the Priesthood”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mette-ivie-harrison/why-mormon-women-dont-wan_b_8453032.html

Well, what do you think?

A quibble, by the way:

The article observes that “women are called to leadership positions within the church, though only over other women and children.”

This is, by and large, true.

Of course, it’s also true that many and perhaps most leadership positions to which men are called — e.g., high priests group leader, elders quorum president, priests quorum advisor, Scoutmaster, Young Men president, and so forth — are, in a real sense, only over other men and boys.  And many men don’t hold leadership positions.  I, for example, have served as a bishop and so forth, but, right now, I’m serving as a Sunday School teacher — a position as open to women as it is to men.

But there are, in fact, a few cases where a woman might preside over a man — for example, a Primary president (invariably a woman, presiding over the organization for young children in a congregation) might supervise one or more male Primary teachers.  A choir director is as likely to be a woman telling tenors and basses what to do as a man giving orders to sopranos and altos.  The hymns that a given congregation sings during its Sunday worship services might be directed and accompanied by either a man or a woman — and they might chosen, programmed, by either a man or a woman (the ward music leader), as well.  And it’s probably worth noting that the director of LDS Charities, the substantial humanitarian organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is Sister Sharon Eubank: