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In late 2002, while wandering through a popular women's web site, I had an epiphany. The site I was browsing through featured a "Debate of the Month." This debate allowed any readers to "sound off" about the issue being discussed. The debate topic I chanced upon was "Should you live together before you get married?" The introduction began as follows:
Over 50 percent of today's married couples lived together before tying the knot, but does "testing the relationship" really ensure a better marriage in the long run? Moral views aside, evidence compiled by researches suggests that cohabitation is a bad idea.
Forget for a minute that most of the collected research included in the article agreed with what the Church teaches. I was choking long before I got to that part. I was stuck on the beginning of the last sentence, "Moral views aside…"
"Why," I asked, as I banged my head against my monitor, "is anyone proposing that we should consider or debate any consequential issue while putting our moral views aside"?
I closed my browser, wishing that there was an online community for LDS women, a gathering place for Relief Society sisters, where the obvious could be assumed, where basic values didn't have to be reinvented through debate each week, and where a common thread of the restored gospel was woven into each discussion and solution.
Searching the web brought me no closer to what I had hoped for and eventually the nagging brought me here. To a new site. Just for us. If you're a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and you're a woman, this site is for you. Whether you have children of your own or not, you are one of us, for "Are We Not All Mothers?"
If you're looking for sisterhood and scholarship and thoughtful resources from a main-stream LDS perspective, you've come to the right place. Grab a cup of cocoa and join the circle. We're glad to have you here!