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LDS World: Women in the church

"What does God expect from women in the world today"?
I wonder. President Gordon B. Hinkley said last year that God hasn't spoken to a prophet since Joseph Smith.
How would anyone know the answer to this question?

Yes, think about the mothers of all these famous religious heroes. We don't know their names, of course, because of male domination in most of these cultures, but you can imagine.

And that is the subtle but powerful message women are receiving - play a backstage role to help and support and nurture, but don't be the star yourself. Help your husbands succeed with their careers, but you stay at home in the shadows and behind the scenes SUPPORTING him. Invisible. Unseen. Hidden. That is the place of women in the LDS Church (and also in the world, by and large).

When are you women going to wake up and see what has been happening to you for centuries? You have the right and the ability to be IN THE LIGHT, at the HEAD OF THE ORGANIZATION, and come out from behind the curtain! To Lead. To Star. To Command. To Govern. And perhaps even to be supported by a man!

Think of it. Pray about it.

Janet: right on!

As an LDS woman I have NEVER felt unseen, invisible, or hidden. My role as wife to my husband and mother to my children; as supporter and nurturer- makes me the star. In my family I have the power to determine what influences enter my home and affect my children. I am responsible for teaching my children the importance of learning and education, treating others respectfully, contributing their voice to society, being selfless and helping others; of building a foundation for them and for our posterity. There is no role as important or far-reaching. The influences of my husbands career will be forgotten long before those of our work as parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and friends will remain firmly in place; whether good or bad. My husband supports me in my role as I support him in his. In the family- the fundamental and foundational unit of the world, I HEAD THE ORGANIZATION. I LEAD, I STAR, I COMMAND, I GOVERN. I have this power- that is my place in the LDS church and in the world. Now that is a powerful (and hardly subtle) message.

What, are you people insane? What are you going to cry for next, women to have the priesthood, and a woman prophet?

Get real.

I can answer both questions of what Christ wants us to "be" and "do":

"be" believers in Him

"do" missionary work -- teach others about Him

To Anonymous

I heard a story about Sheri Dew. Apparently she was at an airport with some general authority's wife, when the wife fell and cut this big hole in her face. Sheri prayed on the spot and the bleeding stopped. Now, I'm not saying that women have/need the priesthood, but I am wondering how Sheri did that when she's a woman.
(p.s. -- I am not implying that Sheri did the healing -- of course it was God who actually did it!)

To Shamrock,

You don't honestly believe such mythological and apocryphal stories, do you?

The superstitious mentality makes LDS members such gullible targets for story-tellers and fraudulent scams.

Please question these things and don't just believe them because they sound amazing!

If any woman was going to break the glass cieling of the LDS Church and become a member of the quorum of the 12 apostles or something, it would be Sheri Dew.

Kristen - RIGHT ON!!!!

I'm a member of the church and what I believe or do is not your concern. I totally have the right to worship as I please and so do you. Please worry more about your own salvation and don't waste your precious time trampling mine.

To Anonymous

Well who would want to spread the story? Mormons or supersticians?