LDS Church Post Sparks Backlash on Women’s Roles

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Bill Reel

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 138 minutes

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In this episode of The Mormon Newscast, we dive into the current shift in the LDS Church and what happens when the Mormon Church’s current messaging doesn’t quite match what members were taught for decades? This all came to a head this week over a recent post from Church Public Relations that highlights a husband… Read More »LDS Church Post Sparks Backlash on Women’s Roles

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0:00.0	All right. I think we started. This is it. The Mormon newscast Monday, April 13th,
0:06.4	it's my dad's birthday. Maybe it's a good, happy birthday to some of you out there as well.
0:11.3	Welcome to the Mormon newscast. I'm joined by my co-host Radio Free Mormon and Rebecca
0:15.4	Biblioteca. How are the two of you this evening? Fantastic. It's not such a happy day for me, Bill. Why? That's 31 years ago. So we don't have to go into that here. Let's not go there. We'll save that for the after show that we don't have. There you go. Maybe we should do that too. Have after shows after all the shows that we do which content i think is anyone so all right so here
0:40.6	we go let's jump into this i'll put up on the screen uh glad both of you guys are here glad all of you
0:45.9	out there are here as well this is the thumbnail for tonight and the stories that we're going to go over
0:50.7	are mormon backlash over shifting gender roles. This has been quite the
0:55.8	buzz the last few days. Crazy to see the uproar on social media. We're going to talk about it.
1:01.8	That'll be our lead story. I'll be covering that. Rebecca's got the story. It's back, baby. The word
1:07.0	Mormon returns for legal purposes. So we'll get an update on what's been going on,
1:11.6	maybe with some of that trademark stuff in the sense that the church was,
1:15.6	there was some worry that they would be losing that trademark if they didn't use it,
1:20.6	lose it if you don't use it.
1:21.7	And so maybe they're using it again.
1:23.6	Rebecca's going to tell us,
1:25.3	Radio Free Mormon brings the story LDS Bishop and former
1:28.3	state president arrested on rape allegations. Man, I think so far we've had two abuse stories or
1:35.1	more every week, except for one week we had one if folks are keeping track, keeping count.
1:42.4	RFM will have that story for us. And then Rebecca will bring us these last three stories.
1:46.5	Energy healing, not real, but priesthood, totally real.
1:51.1	That'll be Rebecca.
1:52.5	Lighten up about Jesus.
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