(UPDATE: Please carefully read this important information about the survey from The Millennial Star: What You Should Know About That Mormon Gender Issues Survey.)

The Mormon Gender Issues Survey Group has placed a survey online for Mormons to complete concerning their attitudes towards gender in the LDS Church. It has approval from several universities and may therefore get a great deal of attention. If those who understand LDS gender issues from God’s point of view complete the survey, it is hoped that this will help prevent misconceptions that could be passed along otherwise. However, if you do take the survey, please proceed with caution and read each question carefully. The survey has multiple choice questions.

At the end, you are invited to complete a few more questions in which you can write more detailed answers, but these are not required. I found some of the multiple choice questions difficult to answer because they were either a bit skewed or simply didn’t contain my answers. Others were a bit more straightforward. They involved questions about what percentage of your friends are LDS, how long you’ve been a member, whether you consider yourself liberal, conservative, or something else, whether or not you want the priesthood, how you feel LDS gender roles impact you, and what you would do if women do receive the priesthood. There was one odd-ball question about how soon you think Mormons will be called to travel to Zion. Since it was followed by how soon you think women will get the priesthood (noting that “never getting the priesthood because it is not God’s will” is not even an option), I presume they somehow think the two answers will somehow be connected—although the connection escapes me. If you decide take the survey, please read each question carefully and think through your answers and how they relate to the Lord’s doctrine and the teachings of our current prophet and apostles. Some questions are meant to be a bit tricky if you’re not paying attention, while some questions seem to presume that you are discriminated against (without any real way to clear that up). There is, of course, an overall assumption that “anything men are allowed to do is better than what women can do”, but I tried to clear that up in the longer answers section.

I feel it is important for those who trust God in these issues to complete the survey. This will help show the world how well The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leadership recognizes the value our Heavenly Father places on women in the Church, and how appreciative we are of the opportunities to serve Him. Mormon Gender Issues Survey

UPDATE: This is important information about the survey from The Millennial Star: What You Should Know About That Mormon Gender Issues Survey.