It’s wrong for insiders and outsiders to think all members should talk, walk, act and dress alike, Gordon Monson writes.
Gordon Monson.Question: If you’re a Latter-day Saint, do you have to be just like other Latter-day Saints?more than 200 years ago — got it right. He added “that gives it all its flavor.”You don’t have to fit into a box to be a Latter-day Saint. You don’t have to be anybody’s cliche. You don’t have to be the same as everyone else. You don’t have to be a ball bearing to belong.
This is the kind of thing that Latter-day Saints sometimes face, a misguided line of thinking that you’re either in or out — that there is no suitable in between. It seems, though, within the LDS Church and even outside of it, some people expect Latter-day Saints to embrace sameness. Slapping my forehead, I let out a grunt, looking around at all the people in the chapel who had no children, who never would have children, and thought, “This sister doesn’t even know what she just said.” Maybe that was simply her own experience.
Male missionaries, for instance, dress the way they do because they’re directed to do so, same with students and professors following theat church-owned Brigham Young University. There are occasions when students have been reported to school officials for looking too scruffy, when BYU football players have been told in the locker room at halftime to shave. It’s as though this is some leftover reaction to the beatnik and hippie movements of the 1950s and ‘60s.
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