The Church Says NO

Well, I'm not surprised but Kate Kelly was excommunicated, and for apostasy no less. It what happened in Alma after many church members were divided by the teachings of Nehor. So why are we surprised when church members excommunicate someone who is trying to defy the gospel on such a grand scale. She has created a following, that is not asking for change but demanding it via media pressure and by recruiting people to a cause that is similar to a civil protest or peaceful revolution. This has the power, same as the advocacy group for the LGBT in the church, to create a schism on a large scale, one where many members will be divided and fall away.  You would think a return sister missionary, someone who has been a member almost her whole life, would understand this.

  

Despite the ruling, Kelly is still oblivious to what she is doing. It could have been ascertained from her comments leading up to this moment about how the church needs to allow women to have the priesthood in order to move boldly and confidently into the 21st century.  If I may say though, I'm not sure how caving into worldly demand constitutes a bold conversion into a new century.  Standing apart and staying true to the faith while the world bends and folds to the depraved demands of a corrupt social norm seems quite confident to me. I for one am glad for the churches ability to draw a line in the sand and say, here we stand, immovable, and if you don't like it, you are free to choose another path without us.  

Kelly is behaving like a politician. She wants political power over people because alone she cannot force change when it comes to women and the priesthood, so she took this divisive issue to the public and media and all the existing followers and said to herself that she would try to use the issue to put herself in a “morally superior” position to the church leaders. 

You want political power from a position of moral authority Kelly? Go out and earn it yourself by preaching what you believe and gaining followers. Don’t try to take over someone else’s flock with what you think they should be believing in. That’s what we call apostasy.

Let Kate Kelly go, and if that saddens her, then she needs to let go of her selfish desire and get in line with the teachings of the Savior, or just go ahead and start her own church (totally within her power as an American). D&C  section 1 comes to mind, "For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant; they seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world..." Certainly this scripture can apply to this situation, as we have seen with John Dehlin and the gay advocacy movement he leads in the church. Establish worldly pursuits and then protest against those who do not allow you to practice them, pressuring them non-stop until they conform to how you desire things to be.