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Mormon Stories Podcast

065: Women in the LDS Church Part 9 - Margaret Merrill Toscano: On the church, priesthood and Mother God

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2007

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Merrill Toscano is one of the most prominent and controversial feminists in the LDS church. In this episode Margaret discusses her feelings about the LDS church, women and the priesthood, and Mother God.

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0:00.0

Music

0:12.0

Come, come, he sings, not oil nor labor fee

0:19.0

Back and tall, and away

0:29.0

Now hard to you this journey may appear

0:36.0

It should be

0:39.0

Tell us about 1993

0:42.0

And I'll set up in this way

0:45.0

As I started studying about the September 6th, it was easy for me to feel like you guys were victims

0:51.0

Like, oh, these people were just trying to do it right

0:54.0

They were just trying to speak honestly and candidly like you just said

0:58.0

I'm burning up back here, some of us are burning up

1:01.0

And so it's just easy to construct a narrative such that you're victims

1:06.0

But as I've come back and listened to some of the speeches that were being given in 1992 and 1993

1:11.0

I mean, they're bold

1:13.0

It almost felt like there was sort of a subtle plea saying

1:18.0

We're ready to take this next step

1:20.0

Bring it on, excommunicate us

1:23.0

And we feel like somehow like Galileo suffering what he suffered

1:29.0

Or Obi-Wan Kenobi being killed somehow that made Luke more powerful and strong in the end

1:36.0

So I guess there's a two-bar question

1:38.0

You know, were you anticipating that?

1:40.0

Did you almost want it to happen?

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