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Mormon Stories Podcast

228: Agitating Faithfully for Gender Equality Within the LDS Church

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2011

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we interview Dane Laverty -- founder of the"Agitating Faithfully" web site. Agitating Faithfully is a site supporting gender equality in the church. It was inspired by President Gordon B. Hinckley's answer to the question,"At present women are not allowed to be priests in your Church...Is it possible that the rules could change in the future..?" He responded,"Yes. But there's no agitation for that. We don't find it."

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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

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My name is John DeLin, your host, and I'm very excited to have you with us today.

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And today, I'm also pleased to have with us Dane Loverty. Hello, Dane.

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Hey, John.

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Now, Dane Loverty is the creator of a new site, a new website, and it is called agitatingfaithfully.org.

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And I read about this, I don't know, on Facebook or somewhere last week.

0:45.0

And here's what the website says. The primary purpose of this site is not to be a blog,

0:51.0

but to provide a forum for church members to be counted in their support for gender equality.

0:59.0

So that is the purpose of this site, and it also talks a little bit about female clergy in the LDS church.

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So Dane, before we jump into that, let's just have a little bit of an introduction about you.

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Tell us a little bit about yourself.

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Sure. So my name is Dane Loverty.

1:18.0

I'm currently living in California. Recently moved here. I've got my wife and three kids,

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and are enjoying the sunny weather after having spent the last four years in Oregon.

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Before that, my wife and I went to school at BYU.

1:35.0

I spent three years studying computer science, and then switched to modern dance,

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and ended up graduating in dance, and now I'm back in computers doing things like designing websites.

1:46.0

So that was awesome.

1:49.0

Where the work on the site came from was just an extension of the work that I do every day.

1:53.0

Okay, so you're a modern dancer, huh?

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