1. Not one piece of evidence in her first argument indicates that women were ordained, and thus actually debunks the ordain women movement and the author's conclusions, indicating that women have and still have great power to heal, bless and understand the mysteries of God, without the need for ordination. Faith to heal is not necessarily tied into ordination as is clearly revealed by faithful Saints, of both genders who healed others by their faith long before the priesthood was ever restored in this dispensation. It is not just LDS women that have faith to heal, but women and men, who do not belong to our church and yet have had sufficient faith in Jesus to heal. The writer's
conclusion that her snippets of history indicate a "precedent of ordaining" women is total fabrication on her part. None of them indicate that at all, though she applies her self-serving interpretation to try and make it look that way.
2. In spite of the author's weak attempts to distinguish the basis of the OW movement as not being based on sameness, the articles, blogs, and facebook posts clearly indicate that at the basis of their flawed thought processes, they are in fact using difference, as an indication of lack of equality, which is a false conclusion. For example, the series "Equality is not a Feeling" has as it flawed premise in every post from 1.0 to 25.0 the underlying attempt to show that the disparity between Men and Women is an indication of inequality. So, though their statics never really show that, it is clear that it is the basis of their arguments. It is intellectually dishonest for an organization to try to bolster the need for ordination by showing fraudulent evidences of lack of sameness, and then to claim they are not seeking sameness. Sameness as equality is the major
underlying premise of all their arguments.
The author's twisting of the statement "What better way to recognize women as precisely “equal in importance and ultimate potential” than to recognize their importance and potential as ordained enactors of priesthood power?" which she offers to try and dispute the fact that their arguments are based in sameness, is actually an
indication that sameness truly lies at its heart. There she is arguing for sameness with ordained brethren. The absolute truth, as revealed by God, is that women are, and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, equal in importance and ultimate potential, without the need of ordination, and to claim otherwise is an argument for sameness no matter what they call it.