

The example I tookįrom Heavenly Mother in my youth was that exalted womanhood meant being Thinkers (including Janice Allred, Margaret Toscano and Lynn Whitesides) haveīeen excommunicated largely for their attentions to Her. Pearson published a book of poetry called Finding To talk about Her so she won’t be disrespected. Never thought to ask my mother.) He warned that Heavenly Father doesn’t want us When I noticed that a hymn (O My Father, ironically) invoked Heavenly Mother, IĪsked my earthly father to tell me more. Growing up as a Mormon girl, I learned that God was not just my Creator, but myĮxample of what I could and should be. This got me thinking about Heavenly Mother. Year, Butler said that gender might be first assigned at birth but is thenĬontinuously re-assigned (and policed) by “a slew of expectations.” Homosexuality is the most obvious example of ‘gender failure’ in this paradigm, he says, but the failures of a woman to have children or keep a clean house presumably also apply. In his 2020 book, Tabernacles of Clay, scholar Taylor Petrey explains how Mormonism accomplishes the nifty trick of combining gender essentialism (the idea that gender is innate and fixed) and the idea that performing gender roles is a duty to be perfected and practiced. For $8, on Etsy, you can buy one as tall as a young child. Today, for $50, Deseret Books will sell you a 10×20 framed copy withĪ space to insert a picture of your own family or the temple where you were Mothers nurture.įamily Proclamation is also good marketing. To bring the force of modern prophecy down on traditional marriage and and Hinckley read theįamily Proclamation in the General Relief Society meeting That emphasis is anything but peculiar amongįifty years after World War II (and 26 years ago this week), President Gordon B. Relies on DeAnne’s background and what Reiss calls “a particular kind of
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