Without Disclosing My True Identity
of Representatives of the Legislature of Utah,” Deseret News, 10 Jan. 1852: 2. See also The Teachings of
President Brigham Young, Vol. 3 1852–1854, ed. Fred C. Collier [Salt Lake City: Collier’s, 1987] 17,
emphasis added.)
Aug. 27, 1954: Apostle Mark E. Peterson delivered an address at the Convention of Teachers
of Religion on the College Level, Brigham Young University, entitled, “Race Problems as They Affect
the Church”: “Now we are generous with the negro. We are willing that the Negro have the highest
kind of education. I would be willing to let every Negro drive a [C]adillac if they could afford it. I
would be willing that they have all the advantages they can get out of life in the world. But let them
enjoy these things among themselves, I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to
change that segregation?” (As quoted in Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism,
307, emphasis added. See also Quinn, Extensions of Power, 840).
“BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson wrote in his journal that in 1960 Harold B. Lee said to
him, ‘If a granddaughter of mine should ever go to the BYU and become engaged to a colored boy
there, I would hold you responsible.’ (Greg Prince, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism,
p. 64). Lee made a similar complaint to Wilkinson in March 1965, when he ‘protest[ed] vigorously
over our having given a scholarship at the B.Y.U. to a negro student from Africa.’” (Quinn, Extensions
of Power, 852.)
“Elders, never love your wives one hair’s breadth further than they adorn the Gospel, never
love them so but that you can leave them at a moment’s warning without shedding a tear. ...Here are
Apostles and Prophets who are destined to be exalted with the Gods, to become rulers in the
kingdoms of our Father, to become equal with the Father and the Son, and will you let your affections
be unduly placed on anything this side that kingdom and glory? If you do, you disgrace your calling
and Priesthood.” (President Brigham Young, JD, 3:360.)
“Women are queens and priestesses but not gods. The Godhead, the ‘Presidency of Heaven,’
is a presidency of three male deities, similar to a stake presidency whose members each have wives
who are responsible for domestic religious education but not ecclesiastical functions.” (“Speeches &
Conferences | Panel Discusses Praying to Mother in Heaven,” Sunstone Magazine, Oct. 1991: 60
reporting on the speech given by Rodney Turner, retired BYU religion professor, Sunstone Panel
Discussion, September 7, 1991. See https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/084-58-65.pdf.)
See also Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism, ed. Maxine Hanks (Salt Lake
City: Signature Books, 1992) 299. “As LDS historian Linda King Newell expressed it, ‘the pendulum
has made its arc from Joseph Smith’s prophetic vision of women as queens and priestesses...to
Rodney Turner’s metaphor of women as doormats.’”
“‘I think no more of taking a wife than I do of buying a cow,’ was one of Heber Kimball’s
delicate remarks, made from the stand in the Tabernacle to a congregation of several thousand. Most
of his hearers thought even less of it, for they would have had to pay money for the cow; and as for
the other, he had only to throw his handkerchief to some girl, and she would pick it up and follow
him. (Ann Eliza Young, Wife No. 19: The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of
Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy (1876; New York:
Cosimo Classics, 2010) 292.
See also “Mormon Quotes on Women,” MormonThink.com, 2008, MormonThink.com, 3 Jun.
2011 http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/women.htm and Jana Riess, “Mormon Women
Are Men’s Equals, Kind Of Sort Of Maybe,” Flunking Sainthood, 22 Apr. 2011 Beliefnet, 3 Jun. 2011
http://blog.beliefnet.com/flunkingsainthood/2011/04/mormon-women-are-mens-equals-kind-of-
sort-of-maybe.html.
“18. Has the Church encouraged members to oppose ratification of the ERA? Yes. The First
Presidency has spoken out against the amendment and urged members to exercise their civic rights
and duties and to ‘join actively with other citizens who share our concerns and who are engaged in
working to reject this measure on the basis of its threat to the moral climate of the future.’” (“The
Church and the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: A Moral Issue,” Ensign, Mar. 1980: insert: 1.);