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Part 5: The Patriarchal Order
Q. "Does the "patriarchal order" mean anything, or is it just an excuse
some LDS men use to control their wives?"
In the Encyclopedia of Mormonism we read:
The patriarchal order is... a condition where "woman shares with man the blessings
of the Priesthood," where husband and wife minister, "seeing and understanding
alike, and cooperating to the full in the government of their family kingdom."
A man cannot hold this priesthood without a wife, and a woman cannot share the
blessings of this priesthood without a husband, sealed in the temple.
The patriarchal order does not set a man above his wife. It puts a man at the
head of the family unit. Any man who somehow uses this priesthood to "control"
his wife is in jeapordy of losing his priesthood unless he repents. For additional
information regarding the partriarchal order see, "Marriage
and the Patriarchal Order" from the September 1982 Ensign magazine.
