Letter: A Utahn thread of bad decisions

(The Washington Post) Prevalence of stereotypical beliefs about a woman’s place in societyThis has to do with two Scout leaders who, in 2013, pushed over a hoodoo rock formation while on a trek with Boy Scouts, and posted a video of it online. It has to do with the survey that indicates Utah women have attitudes that devalue women. It also has to do with this being the data-driven age, and the defeat of Proposition 3 by the Legislature. I believe I have a coherent thread.

For millennia, we have been groomed to believe men are superior to women in leadership and decision-making. Here in Utah we are further groomed by the dominant church’s position that men who hold the priesthood make better…