Consider the Crown of Motherhood | Gather

I?ve known some Mormon women.

Growing up as I did in the Intermountain West, you can?t help but rub elbows with people who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You cannot swing a cat anywhere in Idaho, Oregon, Montana or Wyoming without hitting a Mormon and in Utah, well?that?s another story altogether. That?s not a bad thing (except, perhaps, for the cat.) In my experience Mormons make good neighbors.

These people are hard working people whose religious beliefs lean toward the traditional gender roles. This traditional approach to gender difference outrages the liberal left and inspires some ignoranuses (Nope. I spelled that word just the way I wanted it spelled.) to pile on a woman like Ann Romney for being ? you know ? subservient to her husband.

I?m not sure why, in a nation made great by our religious tolerance, this fact would engender such angst among the women on the left. I see no threat there, but I?m a very confident woman who has the good fortune to be married to a man who likes my independent nature. (By the way, my handsome husband is the chairman of the board in our house as Mitt Romney is in his. Somebody has to be the ultimate decision maker and I don?t mind deferring to his wisdom.) Maybe the women on the left have had unhappy experiences I just don?t understand. Shrug.

Because Mormon women feel that making a home and raising a family are worthy pursuits doesn?t make them the enemy. (Ann Romney?s use of the phrase, ?crown of motherhood? is a reflection of the importance Mormons place on that particular job description and has nothing whatsoever to do with Hitler as even some poorly informed bloggers here on Gather might have you believe.) In my book, if there were more opportunity for women to stay at home raising the next generation, the world would be a better place.

The closely knit Mormon families in the West make stronger communities and, while my own religious beliefs are unlike those of my LDS friends, I?ve always been proud to have them as part of the societal fabric. (And, I must say with all due reverence for their culinary talents, Mormon women are especially good at bake sales!)

It occurs to me that to launch attacks against a woman like Ann Romney because of her religious beliefs is a function of the aforementioned ignorance and of political machination. The left is struggling to find something, anything, to make their candidate look good and, even though the President himself has called attacks against the family members of candidates cowardly, Ann Romney is a handy target.

Since she has survived breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, I?m thinking Ann Romney can handle the slings and arrows. And still bake killer cookies.

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