Excellent admonitions. I just wish I had the sense and strength to live up to them.

Although I think these quotes are all good, I believe one has to be careful in running too far with this. If we are all totally equal, then there is no need for Prophets, Apostles, Bishops, etc. One person's "revelation" is just as good and valid as another's. Of course, that isn't true. God does love all his children. However, he has given us different roles and different amounts of authority. We should keep this in mind and not go overboard with egalitarianism. Also, those with positions of authority should not think they are better than those they have authority (and responsibility) for. Christ taught and practiced servant leadership.

I think we really have to be careful in pointing the blame on only the men or husbands when it comes to abuse. As we are all equal in our responsibilities I agree, so lets all be equal in accepting our roll in the responsibility of our expression of respect to each other. I personally know of many cases where the woman is as responsible for the abuse going on in a marriage and a home, so why don't we direct an eqaul amount of concern in that direction. When things are going wrong in a relatiopnship or in a home is it ok for the woman to antagonize the situation to the point that it fules anger of an already tense situation? Again, I think if we are going to place blame lets give it and equal balance. There is almost always two people who are equally responsible for the problems in most situations.

Mahonri--Wrong. But thanks for playing.

I see blatant sexism at the pinning of the husbands only in spousal abuse situations.
The way that the genders interact is constantly in a situation of change, and more males find themselves fitting under the category of spousal abuse. To deny such, or to assume that all inequality in marital relationships to be the fault of the male, is drastically antiquated, even for BYU.