Correction.There was an incorrect statement in the article "Divine Discrimination: Mormons and Women's Rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and at the UN" in the January/February 2003 issue of the Humanist. The sentence "The LDS LDs See: Liquidated damages church, though it claims a `heavenly mother' in its theology, in practice won't even permit public discussion of Lawal by members without the threat of excommunication excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. " was incorrect. Lawal was the name of a woman mentioned elsewhere in the article and not the heavenly mother In some religious traditions or movements Heavenly Mother (also referred to as Mother in Heaven) is the wife and feminine counterpart of God the Father. Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists . So the name Lawal should have been replaced by: "her (the heavenly mother)." |
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