695: Nadine McCombs Hansen - Progressive Mormon Pioneer Pt. 3 - ERA and Same-Sex Marriage Activitism

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 93 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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1:31.0	I think we have a listener ask us your thoughts on the Book of Abraham. You said you have a story or two that is interesting about that.
1:38.0	Before we jump into law school and what happened after, why don't you tell us a little bit about Book of Abraham and what you learned about it?
1:46.0	Would it have been the 80s?
1:48.0	Actually this...
1:51.0	No, it wasn't the 80s.
1:53.0	The 80s I lived in Cupertino was in the 70s.
1:56.0	Okay, alright.
1:58.0	In San Jose we had a Rose accrucian museum and I don't really know very much about it.
2:07.0	Which is a religion, right?
2:08.0	Well, yeah, it's kind of a religion.
2:11.0	They're kind of secretive about what they believe, so I don't really know.
2:14.0	But I know they have a lot of interest in Egypt.
2:18.0	And so one day a friend of mine in the ward and I, we took our kids and we went over to the Rose accrucian museum.
2:28.0	And so you go in there and they've got like this one room that's kind of like maybe an Egyptian tomb where they've got all these Egyptian writings on the wall.
2:40.0	And that displays with the conopic jars that you see in the Book of Abraham that are under the altar that so supposedly Abraham is being slain on.
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