After I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, some woman called me a “Molly Mormon”.  I was like, a “Molly What”?   I use the term “woman”, because at the time I hardly new anyone, except for my husband’s family.  (We were only dating back then, though.)  So, when I asked her what a “Molly Mormon” was, this is how she explained it to me…in a nutshell.  Well, at least, this is what I got ouf of it!   “A Molly Mormon is one who has a very kept-up house, well-mannered- children and does everything her husband asks of her” (a.k.a. submissiveness!)  When I heard this you can just imagine my reaction: my average-sized jaw drops wide open, my somewhat-of-an-oblong-face plummets, (I’m having a time with this word; I’m too tired to get up and look it up in the dictionary) and my blue-green eyes grow as big as boulders. In the midst of all the words she just said, I heard these…maid, mother, and  woman without a voice.

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