Well if you don't see being told you are incable of reaching a higher level in the church because you're female or told you should be in the kitchen helping with the cooking not out lifting boxes even though you can lift more then most of the men as sexist... then I don't think anything I say will sway you. "relief society president" I think is something unique to your church. I've never heard of that before. o-o I'd say if you doubt my view of overall sexism within most churches, look at other churches and forms of Christianity. I think you'll be pretty surprised at how sexist many are... not to mention abusive at times. I have a chip from having experienced being told "no you can't- you're a girl" and even as far as having a bible thrown at me for pointing out some lines in the bible had more then one way of being read.

Using "man" and "mankind" to speak to all people because the bible does it is honestly a bit silly in my view. The bible wasn't writen in English. It was translated into it, so using the way the bible phrases things only makes sense if you are reading in Hebrew (which if you do you get a few things that are hugely different). I'm curious to how you feel women in the bible is a good thing though? The majority of women throughout the bible (Mary being an exception) are seen in a pretty negitive light. Eve leading mankind into damnnation, the whore of babylon... not to mention leviticus discussing how impure women are and how sacrafices must be performed to clense them to enter the temple... when the bible talks about men it usually it's refering to those of the male sex. Often the armies, or other groups of males.

And as noted before- I wasn't clear from your post that you were paraphrasing him vs interpreting what he said. I understand that now. :)