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Mother’s Day Call to Action: Immigration
May 11, 2018 Please join us in sending Mother’s Day cards to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pleading with her (in true MWEG fashion consistent with our Principles of Peacemaking) to stop unnecessarily separating mothers and children at the border. Our op-ed in the Deseret News last week explained how the Department of Health and Human Services recently confirmed that, since October 2017, it has taken custody of more than 700 children at the U.S. border, including more than 100 children under the age of 4. (https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900017735/op-ed-breaking-up-families-is-antithetical-to-us-ideals.html) DHS claims to be merely doing its duty to protect children, but such motives are called into question by the fact that many of…
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In Honor of International Women’s Day: A Suffragist’s Prayer
March 8, 2018 In honor of International Women’s Day, we share an excerpt from a powerful and moving prayer given by Dr. Elvira S Barney at the Utah Woman Suffrage Association in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7, 1889. Barney practiced obstetrics and medicine in Utah and was deeply committed to the work of women’s rights and religious liberty. We pray for the weak, we pray for the afflicted, and we pray for the strong, that they may be willing to help carry the burdens of the weak. We pray that thou wilt, in thine own way and time, mellow the hearts of the wicked and immoral, that thy grace…
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MWEG Immigration Leads Travel to Washington, D.C. to Meet with Senators and Representatives
“We have worked hard and long to push for ethical, fair, and compassionate immigration reform in our country. Our members of Congress have had months to come up with a legislative solution that would provide protection to DREAMers, and they have failed to get it done. The March 5th deadline is now mere days away. Many have given up all hope. But we have not. Our immigration committee is working tirelessly behind the scenes on something that we hope might spur some of the more principled of our elected representatives into action. But it may take divine intervention. And so that’s what we are asking for. And we ask you…
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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government with Regard to Continuing Negotiations on Protections for DREAMers
Feb. 15, 2018 As members of both houses of Congress continue to debate and negotiate a resolution for DREAMers this week, we call upon them to work toward ethical solutions that focus on the interests and needs of the American people rather than the tempting pull of partisan politics. The White House has consistently made its anti-immigrant agenda clear, and it continues to derail any bipartisan solutions that do not further that agenda. The result, so far, is a series of proposals that are beneath us and do not honor our country’s values or history. Fortunately, our American political system is one of checks and balances. It is time for…
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Send Martha to Washington
A contingent of Mormon Women for Ethical Government supported the bills to replace one of Utah’s two statues in Washington, D.C., with a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon. Cannon was a physician, Utah women’s rights advocate and suffragist, and the first female state senator. And the bill passed! Martha is headed to Washington!
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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government with Regard to the Silencing, Denigration, and Abuse of Women
Feburary 8, 2018 As Mormon Women for Ethical Government, we assert without equivocation that the silencing, denigration, and abuse of women are heinous offenses which must never be condoned or ignored. Our former prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley stated: “We condemn most strongly abusive behavior in any form. No man who abuses his wife or children is worthy to be a member in good standing in this Church. The abuse of one’s spouse and children is a most serious offense before God.” We stand with all women and hold in the highest regard those who seek help or counsel when they are being harmed in any way. These women must…
