What does the Mormon Church say about women covering their heads while in church?
Question
Dear Gramps,
I believe in the head covering for women as the Amish and Mennonite practice. What does the Mormon Church say about this issue?
Caroline
Answer
Dear Caroline,
We would commend any practice of showing reverence to the Lord in sacred places of worship. As you know, it was the practice in New Testament times for women to have their heads covered in places of worship. It was also forbidden them to speak in such places. The Mormon Church believes that these particular practices were customs of the times, and were not intrinsic to proper worship procedures. However, as an act of reverence, both men and women keep their heads covered in the holy temples of the Mormon Church. These temples are the very most sacred places of worship in the Mormon Church. In addition, patrons to the temples dress in white clothing, representing purity, and when it is necessary to converse, they speak in quiet reverential tones.
Gramps
And where does it say it was just a custom? It clearly says a man is not to cover his head when praying (1st Cor. 11:4), and why he should not (1st Cor. 11:7); how do you get around that?
you “get around that” mikefromms by understanding that revelation and practice are sometimes intricatly linked to culture and history- you get around that becuase this same paul who writes about headcoverings is seeped in sexism saying woman is not made in the image of god, but of man– in genesis there are 2 accounts of creation, one where god makes man and woman “in his own image”, and then that same paul says women are redeemed in childbirth– i thought it was in christ. that sam e paul goes on to encourage slaves to submit to theri masters– so do we tell the african americans to go back on the civil rights movemnet? no, we don’t. so why do we tell women to go back to the culture of paul-s time, coming out of roman and jewish realities where they had no legal or even human or social rights, were seen as basically slaves– so in that time, paul talking about women and men submitting mutually to each other, and men serving women as christ the church, and loving them AS THEMSELVES, these things you notice also don’t get emphasized almost at all– because even in our day, it is radical to call a man out on his desire to dominate and control with ego, and not step up and ive and sacrifice with spirit– so people like yourself just talk about women and submitting, etc. and headcoverings.
Sounds like you don’t believe the Bible.
1 Corinthians 11 says that a woman’s hair is her glory and it was given to her as a covering.
There is no such a thing as a Mormon Temple (no one worships the prophet Mormon nor does anyone pray to him or sing songs about him), and there is no Mormon Church (for the same reason previously stated). https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83e036df79dc031d6d809ef53e9740072c90e7a69c95026e8cf0a83c541062fd.jpg