Nadine Hansen is an American
lawyer
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from
Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. It is located south of Salt Lake City, and north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Gam ...
notable for founding the website Mormonsfor8.com.
During the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint political advocacy campaign for the
Proposition 8 campaign in California, Hansen used publicly available data on individual political donors to create a website focusing on what she saw as inconsistencies between political advocacy and the tax exempt status of the church.
The
Associated Press reported in 2009 that "...Hansen sought to identify
Mormon donors of $1,000 or more, matching campaign records to tips from site visitors and church members and what she and others uncovered with search engines." Individual donors to political causes in the United States are not normally segregated according to religious preferences when donating to political campaigns.
Theologically and doctrinally outside the mainstream of Mormon thought, Hansen has previously been notable for advocating for the
ordination of women
The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains a controversial issue in certain Christian traditions and most denominations in which "ordina ...
to the
priesthood in the Mormon faith.
"Women and Priesthood."
''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought'', Hansen, Nadine. Winter 1981, Volume 14 Number 4: pg. 48 Accessed 08-27-2009
References
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American lawyers
Living people
People from Cedar City, Utah
American women lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women