(RNS) — Last month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shared a young man’s story about deciding to support the career of his wife, a pediatric neurologist — a career he says she was born for.

“Supporting her doesn’t shrink my purpose — it expands it,” he said, according to a post from the church’s official Instagram account.

Judging from some of the 2,100 comments across Instagram and X , you’d think the guy had just proclaimed motherhood was dead and the church had planned the funeral.

The dude-bros came out in force, with comments like, “How is she gonna have children if she’s busy being a doctor all day?” and accusations that the church’s public relations department had suffered from “estrogen poisoning.”

But then there was a backlash to the backlash — a string of social media posts from orthodox young Latter-day Saints who applauded the church’s new positive messaging about women’s careers.

Some are claiming that position isn’t new for the church, and that it has always been supportive…