LDS Church gives more power to women than any other religious organization, leader declares

The Relief Society General Presidency: J. Anette Dennis, left, first counselor; President Camille N. Johnson; and Kristin M. Yee, second counselor. The three spoke about priesthood power and the importance of the "endowment" during a March 17 worldwide devotional in which church President Russell M. Nelson offered closing remarks.

“By contrast, all women, 18 years and older,” she explained, “in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who choose a covenant relationship with God in the House of the Lord areAll Latter-day Saint women are given priesthood authority to fulfill their callings, or volunteer positions within their congregations, and other assignments, she said, regardless of whether they have performed the rituals found within the faith’s temples.

“Latter-day Saint women’s ecclesiastical authority is dramatically less,” she said, “than in churches which extend priesthood to women.” Those messages only reinforced her position, Kremer Howes wrote, explaining that, come Sunday, she would “try to get five hours of sleep instead of the usual four.”

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