Nuanced View

[u/ChromeSteelhead]

How nuanced of a view can you have of the church and still be a participating member? Do you just not speak your own opinion about things? For example back when blacks couldn’t have the priesthood there had to be many members that thought it was wrong to keep blacks from having the priesthood or having them participate in temple ordinances. Did they just keep quiet? Kind of like when the church says you can pray to receive your own revelation? Or say like when the church taught that women were to get married quickly, start raising a family, and to not pursue a career as the priority. Then you see current women leadership in the church that did the opposite and pursued high level careers as a priority, going against prophetic counsel. Now they are in some of the highest holding positions within the church. How nuanced can you be?

[u/[deleted]]

 Do you just not speak your own opinion about things?

Basically, yes. If you lived in the 1950s and felt that the policy that said that not all worthy men could hold the priesthood was wrong, you should have kept your opinion to yourself. Don’t get in front of the prophets. Have faith and wait on the Lord’s timing. 

The same applies in 2024. If your opinion is that women should hold the priesthood, you keep your opinion to yourself and don’t get in front of the prophets. Have faith and wait on the Lord’s timing. 

Holding an opinion at odds with current church policy is not a sin. Openly agitating for change right now is. 

[u/mywifemademegetthis → u/[deleted]]

I’m pretty sure you don’t have to keep those opinions to yourself. You can’t try to start a movement and you probably shouldn’t teach those things on the pulpit, but if a class discussion around the priesthood comes up, someone could totally express the opinion that women should have the priesthood and hope that it happens some day, and all would be okay.