Mother's day
I wonder why we feel the need to talk about mothers as a subject of talks on mother's day. Why not labor on labor day? Or the presidents on president's day?
My talk on "how to get into college" was very secular. The talks on appreciating people with disabilities were fairly secular. Although both subjects are tied back into the gospel, somewhat. What do you guys think of tackling the topics that sit on the secular/religious boundary? |
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My personal peeve with Mother's day is the policy in most wards to give flowers or whatever to all women over the age of 18. It is not Women's day, it's Mother's day, and I really dislike the politically correct notion that we might offend someone by excluding them. |
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He made it a point to choose the speakers and/or special musical numbers, etc. very carefully for this reason. |
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In my ward, all of the talks were on womanhood and all that stuff...as though the focus was less on mothers and more on the role of women in the church and the importance of womanhood in general. For the first time....ever, there was nothing provided for the mothers in the ward (perhaps to avoid that awkwardness of giving the married w/no kids or singles something). |
So what is this? We've all become a bunch of communists? We can't honor anyone because someone else get their feelings hurt?
Reminds me of some members of the staff here. Every year we give out cash awards to exceptional performers. When we queried the staff for suggestions on how to make the awards program better, they came back pressing for equality (just divide the budgeted money up evenly). We rejected that suggestion. The next year we presented awards to very deserving recipients, only to have one of the staff go to the big boss in tears over having not been recognized for her efforts during the year (they didn't rise to the same level of others). Pathetic. What's wrong with honoring motherhood? We all have one, and shouldn't the day be about them and not us? |
What a bunch of women.
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I thought that was odd. |
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In Relief Society we talk a lot about having a mother's heart. Not all women can be mothers, but most women in the church long to be. The Primary is dominated by women as are daycares and elementary schools. What's wrong with celebrating women and their impact on children whether or not they've had their uterus stretched to make room for one of their own. |
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