694: Nadine McCombs Hansen - Progressive Mormon Pioneer Pt. 2 - Nadine's Progressive Mormon Awakening

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Nadine McCombs Hansen has been championing progressive causes within Mormonism for over three decades. Some of her efforts include:

Supporting the Equal Rights Amendment as a Mormon mother, including interactions with Sonia Johnson.
Speaking out in favor of female priesthood ordination within Mormonism.
Opposing Proposition 22 and Proposition 8 in California, in support of same-sex marriage.
Working as an attorney in support of children of FLDS families.

In this 4-part series, Nadine discusses her evolution and reflects on her life as a progressive Mormon pioneer.

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0:32.0	The Conclusion
0:37.0	We kindly light a myth in circling glue.
0:42.0	Lead thou me on the night is dark and I am far from home.
0:53.0	Hello and welcome back to part two of my interview with Nadine McComb, right?
0:59.0	McCombs.
1:01.0	McCombs.
1:04.0	The first hour we spent talking about her years growing up in California, attending seminary, questioning certain interpretation of the Atonement, how she developed feelings around Christ and Christianity,
1:21.0	maybe some early feminist awakenings that she had, that carried her to BYU where her, maybe some of her dreams about getting a higher education were kind of a little bit squashed or derailed as she followed her husband, Merlin.
1:39.0	Merlin.
1:40.0	So now we are going to be talking about maybe her early married years and maybe the things that led to her kind of progressive awakenings, feminist awakenings, etc.
1:58.0	One thing that we didn't talk about was the temple.
2:01.0	Is it okay if we spend a little bit more time talking about how you experience the temple?
2:07.0	Well, from a feminist perspective, if you even thought of it in that perspective, but also you went pre-1990.
2:17.0	Yes.
2:18.0	So it was all its violent glory.
2:22.0	So talk about what, if you are questioning age of the earth or a literal Adam and Eve, I am imagining that the LDS temple ceremony blew you away.
2:32.0	Well, let me tell you, there was an interesting thing in the temple back then.
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