I won't touch on the question of "should women be ordained?" I want to say how I feel about the Ordain Women movement, specifically.
I think it's acceptable to correspond with the president of the church and request changes. I am not ok with disregarding his answers.
I'm ok with Ordain Women believing they should receive the priesthood. I'm not okay that they blatantly ignored the Church's direction (written by a female spokesperson, I might add) to stay in designated areas, and to not push for tickets into priesthood session.
What bothers me is that I don't know of any such protest that was ever organized for blacks and the priesthood.
The Church is not a democracy that can be pressured into a popular agenda. If the Church declared that women could be ordained, I would wholeheartedly support it. That's not the issue for me. The issue for me is respect for the Lord, respect for those divinely called to receive revelation on such matters, and respect for the revelations which they have received after fasting, pondering, consulting with others ordained unto that purpose, and praying.
It offends me that one of them on Facebook called it "trying too hard to be the middleman." No, the prophets are fulfilling their divinely appointed calling. Prophets don't come between you and God. They help you come closer to God. The Lord's whole purpose for the Restoration was to divinely choose men who could speak on His behalf to the entire world when otherwise the world would languish in ignorance. Think about the Restoration, then think about Ordain Women's audacious claims and demands.
Do they think that their revelation trumps that of the prophets? Don't forget, your ability to receive personal revelation was revealed by prophets.
In keeping with what I said before, it doesn't bother me that they want the priesthood. I would wholeheartedly support ordaining women if the apostles received revelation to do so. I think it would be totally appropriate to want to know why women can't be ordained. It's not appropriate to demand ordination.
Can you think of a time when the Lord was on the receiving end of an ultimatum and the Lord acquiesced? I sure can't. In the Book of Mormon, Jacob said, "seek not to counsel the Lord." Is Ordain Women seeking and listening for an answer? Or are they demanding to hear what they want to hear?
I hate Ordain Women's attitude of: "We won't stop until you ordain us!"
I might be more favorable to Ordain Women if their attitude was more like, "We would love to have the priesthood if we could, but we will sustain the prophets no matter what the Lord reveals to them." That would be in keeping with Jacob's instructions to "take counsel from his [the Lord's] hand." (Both quotes are from Jacob 4:10).
