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I started playing conference bingo on my mission. And not the cute primary kind. Things like “sleeping apostle”, “lost place on teleprompter”, “pink tie”, “unnecessary c.s. lewis quote”, etc.
I wish I still had a board. I don’t remember them all. We did the same thing with fast and testimony meeting too.
I guess now I’ll be able to mark off “woman prays”.
Back when Utah was trying be com a state there was a series of debates between Orson F Whitey and BH Roberts. Whitney wanted to had womens right to vote the the state constitution Roberts did not. 127 years later a women is going to pray is conference! Just goes to show you the church moves very slowly! http://www.amazon.com/Speeches-Whitney-support-woman-suffrage SamBee wrote:Actually wasn’t Utah one of the earliest US states to have female suffrage?
I know that Wyoming’s state slogan is the equality state. I had heard that the only way that they would get a sufficient voting population to achieve statehood was to let the women vote.
🙂 I’ve an idea that Wyoming was the first, but that Utah was close behind. I was quite impressed by that. Some of the other pioneers are odd… New Zealand? Isle of Man? And the Swiss, only legalized it all within my lifetime!
Women’s Suffrage was won twice in Utah. It was granted first in 1870 by the territorial legislature but revoked by Congress in 1887 as part of a national effort to rid the territory of polygamy. It was restored in 1895, when the right to vote and hold office was written into the constitution of the new state. The Wyoming Territorial legislature granted women the right to vote in 1869. In 1890 the right was threatened as Wyoming was trying to become a state. The U.S. Congress, strongly opposed to women’s suffrage, threatened to withhold statehood from Wyoming, Cheyenne officials sent back a a staunchly worded telegram stating that Wyoming would remain out of the Union 100 years rather than join without women’s suffrage On July 10, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill approving Wyoming as the nation’s “Equality State.” Wyoming also elected the nation’s first woman Governor (Nellie Ross) in 1924.
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