they ended the practice of plural marriage. in 1918 began redeeming the dead. in 1978 the church begin admitting african-americans into the priesthood. these are meaningful changes but other practices and traditions of the church have remained firmly in place. women are not allowed in the mormon priesthood. all mormon priests are men and actually in the mormon tradition all men are eligible, but not women. some people want to change that. but church leaders are emphatically not interested in that change. on monday, the lds church went so far as to ex-communicate this woman, kate kelly. a feminist, a mormon and a founder of the group ordain women. she s organized protesters in hundreds of women protests the church general priesthood meeting in salt lake city, utah. the meetings are only open to priests, that is, only open to men. in the protests, the women lined up in mass to attend the