As you may have heard, Elaine Dalton had some choice words for those who participated in The Women’s March:

I watched those women marching and yelling, and should I say, behaving anything but ladylike and using language that was very unbefitting of daughters of God…As I watched all of that take place, my heart just sunk and I thought to myself, ‘What would happen if all those women were marching and calling to the world for a return to virtue?’

Many have already shared excellent responses to Dalton’s words, and I recommend people read those. I echo their sentiments.

But the first thing that I thought about when I heard Dalton’s words was this:

In case you didn’t know, Julie Beck rallied for Donald Trump to become President of The United States. Three weeks after we heard him bragging about grabbing women by the pussy.

According to the church, “touching the private, sacred parts of another person’s body” outside of marriage is a violation of the law of chastity, a facet of their definition of virtue. I hope it goes without saying that rallying for somebody who grabs other mens’ wives by the vulva without their consent is antithetical to standing up for virtue.

If you want to know what standing up for virtue sounds like, listen to Michelle Obama:

The fact is that in this election, we have a candidate for President of the United States who, over the course of his lifetime and the course of this campaign, has said things about women that are so shocking, so demeaning that I simply will not repeat anything here today. And last week, we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women. And I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for President of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women. And I have to tell you that I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted. So while I’d love nothing more than to pretend like this isn’t happening, and to come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous to me to just move on to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream.

Michelle Obama stood up for virtue. Beck stood up for sexual assault. So did Robert C. Oaks, a former member of the quorum of the Seventy who was a speaker at the rally. But as far as we know, Dalton didn’t have a problem with Julie Beck. Perhaps because she was ladylike as she supported violence against women?

So now I have a better idea of what kind of political activism is acceptable in the LDS church, and it honestly makes me sick.