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The LDS church has two options—ordain women or detach leadership roles from the all-male priesthood.
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Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a complex history with female members. In the early church, women held a relatively high degree of institutional authority, including stewardship over Relief Society funds and welfare initiatives.
LDS women maintained much of this financial and administrative capacity into the 20th century, overseeing their own magazine until 1970. But as part of a top-down correlation effort, ecclesiastical authority was centralized under male priesthood leadership, and women’s auxiliary organizations—including the Relief Society—experienced a…
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