Tribune guest columnist Natalie Brown writes about the risks LDS women encounter when they speak out.
Latter-day Saint faithful walk to the Conference Center for a women's session of General Conference in 2022. Tribune guest columnist Natalie Brown argues Latter-day Saint women need a way to safely and freely speak out within the global church.Dennis herself to respond
J. Anette Dennis, first counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, speaks during a devotional in March 2024. We cannot truly know what Latter-day Saint women think about most issues pertaining to the church as long as many risk being potentially threatened with harassment, church discipline, loss of welfare assistance, breakups of the marriages on which they financially depend, or ridicule when they speak up or step out of line.
Increasingly, however, hostility on social media has moved beyond routine and important disagreement to harassment targeted at individuals, leaving many feeling unsafe. Sometimes, for example, women are told by anonymous voices, some of whom assert to be acting with priesthood authority, that they will be struck down by God.
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