Commentary: Mormon women have a new heaven

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Temple Square, Jan. 12, 2018.Mormon women have just gotten a new heaven. Or, rather, have gotten a new temple ceremony that proclaims a different heaven.

And while church leadership has asked that members not talk about it, they haven’t asked nonmembers not to talk about it, so I will.

The old temple ceremony set women beneath their husbands, positioning the latter as mediators between their wives and God. I understand that some Latter-day Saint women never felt that way about their experiences in the temple. But equality isn’t a feeling, and the old temple ceremony — through its symbolism, through its liturgy, through its rituals — undeniably…