The Church Essay's

I wrote about the priesthood ban long long ago. And I raised most every point the church did in their award winning essay. 
But the church did raise the issues surrounding why the ban was put in place, the history of the curse of Cain theology so it's good that so many of these issues were dealt with.
However, stopping short of an apology was not. Nor was running from the issue that every church leader said, and in general conference no less, that the ban was God's law. But the church's essay says it was merely the opinions of church leaders and not God's law. This discrepancy has yet to be dealt with.
The essay on polygamy is just as dicey because while an Angel with a flaming sword may have commanded polygamy I have yet to see any scripture making marrying other men's wives (polyandry)acceptable in the sight of men or God. This discrepancy also has yet to be addressed by the church.
I like and applaud the move that the church is making in attempting to address many hard issues but after many of these essays it seems that they merely placate the public without addressing obvious problems.
Not addressing obvious problems is the result of a very common problem of providing milk instead of meat rather than simply providing milk before meat.
But then what else can you expect from leaders who say that the biggest threats to our church are Intellectualls, homosexuals and feminists? 
Those groups arent threats in my view, they are assets in the sense that the issues all those groups raise merely provide new and unique opportunities to be more loving, more understanding and more forgiving than we have been in the past. Then we can walk the walk instead of just talking to make ourselves feel better.