Tribune columnist Gordon Monson discusses the BYU dress code and other part of LDS culture and can lead to judging others about how they appear.
Gordon Monson: LDS Church and BYU should eliminate rules that stir judgments about outward appearances Believer Tattoos are sported at the LoveLoud Festival in 2019. Tribune columnist Gordon Monson says Latter-day Saints need to stop judging others based on appearance.
• “Men’s hair should be neatly trimmed. Men should be clean shaven. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed.”Mixed into all of the above is the implication that those who do not wear clothes according to the standard, those who wear their hair differently, those who sport beards, essentially anyone who looks different than the properly washed is not representing Christ, is not preserving an “inspiring environment,” is not promoting “modesty, cleanliness, neatness, and restraint.
It smacks of a church based in Utah, run in large part by old white men, applying their biases about bygone beatnik and hippie movements, seeing long hair and sideburns and beards and hair colors as some kind of rebellion, as a threat to the stability of sound traditions of good, clean living and good, clean faith.
It’s easy to believe that such judging brings greater condemnation than the ridiculously perceived offenses — and that the “spirit” can dwell just as comfortably in the body of one with pink or green hair as one with brown or blond locks.
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