Mormon church excommunicates Kate Kelly
Kate Kelly is a Mormon activist. She is a fighter for women’s rights in the Mormon church. Kate Kelly launched the website Ordain Women. The website states the following.
Ordain Women aspires to create a space for Mormons to articulate issues of gender inequality they may be hesitant to raise alone. As a group we intend to put ourselves in the public eye and call attention to the need for the ordination of Mormon women to the priesthood.
The site further lays out the following.
The fundamental tenets of Mormonism support gender equality: God is male and female, father and mother, and all of us can progress to be like them someday. Priesthood, we are taught, is essential to this process. Ordain Women believes women must be ordained in order for our faith to reflect the equity and expansiveness of these teachings.
For this, Kate Kelly was first put on informal probation. When she refused to take down her website, she was given a charge of apostasy. Today she was excommunicated from the Mormon church. She was emailed a statement from the all male church panel that said the following.
” . . . our determination is that you be excommunicated for conduct contrary to the laws and order of the Church. This means that you may not wear temple garments or contribute tithes and offerings. You may not take the sacrament, hold a Church calling, give a talk in Church, offer a public prayer in behalf of the class or congregation in a Church meeting, or vote in the sustaining of Church officers. These conditions almost always last at least one year. If you show true repentance and satisfy the conditions imposed below while you are no longer a member, you may be readmitted by baptism and confirmation.
“In order to be considered for readmission to the Church, you will need to demonstrate over a period of time that you have stopped teachings and actions that undermine the Church, its leaders, and the doctrine of the priesthood. You must be truthful in your communications with others regarding matters that involve your priesthood leaders, including the administration of Church discipline, and you must stop trying to gain a following for yourself or your cause and taking actions that could lead others away from the Church.”
The Mormon church has excommunicated a woman because she wanted equal rights for women. These sick policies of exclusion and prejudice permeates this church and many others.
This is the same church that had a policy that blacks were not eligible for the priesthood between 1849 and 1978. Black men and women could not take part in ceremonies in Latter Day Saints (Mormon) temples. Mormons used a disputed biblical passage, the Curse of Ham to justify their racism and this racist policy.
The men that excommunicated Kate Kelly are just men. One hopes she will disregard their evil deed, and leave the church in order to escape an oppression that no one should have to live under. One hopes that all thinking women will not subjugate themselves to male domination any longer in any venue.
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