Imagine my surprise when I read that Brigham Young... the second president of the LDS church... husband to innumerable wives... etc., etc. said the following quote:
"We believe that women are useful, not only to sweep houses ... and raise babies, but that they should stand behind the counter, study law or medicine ... and all this to enlarge their sphere of usefulness for the benefit of society at large."
And he said this in the 1800s!
As a bit of irony, the quote was in an article about women at BYU that quit school as soon as they get married. You can read the article here. Watch out when you get near the end where you'll find this little gem:
"After asking his class why the prophet has told women to get an education, a BYU professor stated their anticipated responses were good, but wrong. In his opinion, women need education so they don't have 'stupid kids.'"
Once again proving that a women's worth is directly and exclusively tied to her husband and/or children's achievements... and that's it. While this has so many examples why it's patently wrong, for my only exhibit, I'd like to present to the internets court Queen Elizabeth (just because she's here in the US right now and her interactions with President Bush made people wonder what it would be like to be back under the British Crown instead of under Homeland Security surveillance.).
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I just went to a lecture at UVSC that was titled, "Should LDS Women Speak Out?" I thought the title itself was kind of unbelievable. Why would anyone even have to ask that question? That was basically the main point of the lecture. The speaker used that same quote from Brigham Young. Needless to say, it was an interesting lecture.
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