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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) with Regard to Announcement About DACA
Mormon Women for Ethical Government believes in the dignity of all human beings, in the importance of families, in equal opportunity for all, and in justice, fairness, and compassion. We are grieved by today’s announcement that the Trump administration has rescinded DACA. This action shows an indefensible and reprehensible disregard for the 800,000 young DREAMers who were brought to this country as young children and have grown up here, graduated from high school, attended college, participated in the work force, paid taxes, purchased homes, raised families, and have otherwise shown themselves to be exemplary upstanding, law-abiding contributors to our society. We uphold the official statements of the Church of Jesus…
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MWEG Fireside Chat with Aileen Clyde
What: MWEG Fireside chat with Aileen Clyde When: Sunday, August 27 at 7:00 PM MDT Where: Livestreamed onto MWEG’s Discussion Group page Sister Aileen Clyde has been a hero and a role model to millions of women for many years. She served in the General Relief Society Presidency from 1990-1997 along with Sister Elaine Jack and Sister Chieko Okasaki and has spent her entire life in public service. At the invitation of the Utah Judicial Council, she chaired the Utah Task Force on Gender and Justice which studied the possible effect of gender bias in Utah Courts. For five years she was the citizen chair of the Utah Commission on…
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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government in Response to the White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
Mormon Women for Ethical Government decries racism wherever its ugly tentacles reach. As devout followers of Jesus Christ, we believe our path is clear — to love and respect one another as fellow sons and daughters of God. In daily practice, in civil discourse, in policy, our goals are to love, honor, and defend the rights of all our brothers and sisters throughout the world. We stand with the good citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, who are being singled out because of skin color or religion by gangs of cowardly white supremacists. We believe in the inherent dignity of every human being. Our beloved nation was inspired by the ideal of…
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Intersections
We’ve become unaccustomed to dialing down the intake of information in anything but rapid fire succession and bite-sized chunks. In an attempt to slow down and reflect about what I am taking in, I dissected this piece about racism with a group of friends this week. The goal was to reflect before reacting. To listen with no intention of immediately responding. We spent a day on each subsection (there are breaks in the text) and considered slowly. For instance, reading these two paragraphs multiple times allowed me to really hear what the author was saying: “This emotional disconnect is the conclusion of living a life oblivious to the fact that their…
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MWEG Op-Ed: ‘An open letter to Jason Chaffetz from Mormon Women for Ethical Government’
“Dear Rep. Jason Chaffetz. As a nonpartisan organization of nearly 5,000 women, many of whom are your constituents, we are profoundly disturbed by apparent Russian involvement in our recent election. The unexpected firing of FBI Director James Comey is one more disruptive action weakening confidence in the current administration.” Click here for the full text of this Deseret News op-ed written by the founders of Mormon Women for Ethical Government.
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Making Connections
Show of hands from everyone reading this: How many of you identify as being an introvert? For those of you who half-heartedly raised your hands (but only because you’re alone in the privacy of your own home — there’s no way you’d randomly raise your hand out in public and draw unwanted attention to yourself), I get it. I was the kid who would bring a book to church dances. The best way to strike fear into my otherwise confident adolescent heart was a forced get-to-know-you session at girls’ camp. Not much has changed with adulthood. The last thing I want to do when I’m out in public is make small…
