I am a woman.
One of God’s crowning creations, I have a mind that is amazing, a heart that is loyal and kind.
When I love it is with all I have.
I’m witty, beautiful, smart, tenacious.
I deserve the same kind of boundless, unconditional love I give.
My Relief Society is super woke.
The only group chat happens on platforms I don’t use, nothing on circles (the church provided app.)
And… not being woke gets you ostracized from participating in RS.
Fun times.
@LMBooksWorm@CnservativeMrmn Me not holding my tongue gets kind of sassy and spicy… not profane, but very direct. I must feel out the room a little better first. It is coming though. I have a limit.
@IdleAn94328@ManMigra I think the efficacy of home-based church keeping people firmly rooted in doctrine is influenced greatly by the local social climate. Here in the big blue beltway the acceptance of all manner of sin is kind of wild.
@CnservativeMrmn@moskev@dougrday Yes. That is exactly it. There are two seem sex lesbian or trans “couples” and a “thruple” in RS. (I just learned about the “thruple” and I’m feeling really good about my covenants today.
@mattcrossette@Tburdy@CnservativeMrmn I would agree that partner might be more ambiguous language if used in a scenario where the only people would be married to husbands and if the front row were not lesbians and trans members who get upset when told women need husbands.
I’m not playing victim here. I am stating the very real problem that exists in our women’s organization. I imagine you don’t have a lot of experience belonging to women’s organizations so maybe you don’t understand how the dynamic is quite different.
I am not a victim. I definitely know how to make friends with people who want to be friends. They don’t want conservatives as friends. Also, they (the woke teachers) don’t call on conservatives to participate in the discussion during RS. The really woke women don’t even talk to the conservative women.
This is DC area.
This teacher, in the same lesson she said we could ask our partner for child care help to go to the temple also said she never wants to be sealed to any of her husbands or any man and also not her parents … and she is somehow also a temple worker.
She has regularly counseled people to put other relationships ahead of their marriages. It is difficult to want to even attend that propaganda session.
@BYU2@nmerrill14 I would enjoy that calling. The women who are currently in that organization are about half woke/half super woke.
Definitely feeling out the entire situation more. Seeking support and direction from hubs for this as well.
@justin323032@Jenniferinwest@jaxmarie82 The emails are normal announcements. The formal announcement flyers are the only things put on Circles.
Facebook and WhatsApp are not going to happen, and it shouldn’t even be requested as the primary group chat to the exclusion of circles.
@justin323032@Jenniferinwest@jaxmarie82 They don’t “like” circles.
The apps they want me to use are not apps I can have on my phone.
My husband is restricted from those apps. For best practices, my device as well as any device that connects on our WiFi should avoid.
Yes. Although I do miss what I came to know as the sisterhood of RS in prior wards when I first joined the church.
The marriage hating, man hating RS teachers definitely need some rational, FamProc supporting voices around them. They choose whether or not to listen. Right now, they listen to each other and commiserate with one another.
@GreatNSpacey I have attended that ward. I will as often as I choose. However, my records and my husbands are in our geographically assigned ward.
We are an organization of rules and or order.
I said if I could choose, I would. But there is wisdom in the organization of our church.
@GreatNSpacey There are a few good wards. If I could choose which ward to attend, I would choose the one whose boundary ends three blocks to my south… 😫
@GreatNSpacey@EllaSanderson18 The first presidency has to approve those changes. While I have a preference, I am not going to petition the FP for this.