Letter: Feminist Mormon women wrote an open letter to the LDS Church in the 1970s. Here’s what it teaches us going forward.

Recently, an area authority’s opposition to women sitting on the stand prompted a letter in response, signed by almost 3,000 members of the church, and a quote from President J. Annette Dennis during the recent women’s conference prompted over 17,000 comments on Instagram. These events highlight a simple truth: Many mainstream Latter-day saint women are fed up with the church’s continued and blatant gender discrimination.This is not the first, nor the last time that women have