A paragraph Peggy wrote

The world has changed, but the church has tried its best not to. The best we’ve been able to do with “continuing revelation” was giving the priesthood to black members back in 1978. And that was a Good Thing. But it might have been the last time the church moved forward, rather than digging in its heels to stay in the same place. Well, there’s a place for people like that — we still have the Amish with us, after all. But sometimes it seems as if the church clings to so many of the unfortunate or trivial things about the past — inequality for women, suits and ties, keeping one’s knees and shoulders covered — and embracing the new things that are harmful — consumerism, television, soda pop. It seems sad to me that a church with an open canon, which often has changed to accomodate a changing world, now seems to be increasingly frozen in time, in many of the worst ways.