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Question: Are Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") women taught to be “gratefully subservient to Mormon males” and that women must “not aspire…to independent thought”?
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It is claimed that the Church teaches women to be "gratefully subservient" to "authoritarian" Mormon males.
In an unpublished paper copyrighted 2003 and readily available on the Internet, the idea is put forward that women in the LDS church are taught to be “subservient” to men and are considered “eternally unalterable second-class.” [1] Among some of its more colorful statements are the claims that we are expected to be “gratefully subservient to Mormon males” [2] and that we must “not aspire…to independent thought.” [3]
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
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Statements
Summary: Statements by Church leaders regarding the roles of men and women with regard to each other.Detailed Analysis
Does the Church teach women to be "gratefully subservient" to Mormon males?
Are women in the Church taught not to be "independent in thought"
Are men in the Church taught to be "authoritarian" in their dealings with women?
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