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In reply to the discussion: Undergarment upgrades bring many Mormon women comfort and joy [View all]marble falls
(71,862 posts)28. No. The "underwear" is not meant to be seen by anyone else. These are called Temple Garments, and those ...
... who are qualified to go into a Mormon Temple wear them, men and women. One might point out that Utah was a first state to give women the vote and the right to own property.
Brigham Young was asked if he had to chose between educating a son or daughter, he said he would have the daughter educated because men have an easier time make a living without it than women could.
In any LDS ward, there's a Bishop (not paid by the church, he pays for all his expenses), the second power is the woman in charge of the Relief Society.
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When your family has been Catholic for hundreds and hundreds of years it is hard to go against the grain.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2025
#13
My mother finally got pissed off enough at the Catholic Church to never go to mass again.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2025
#52
I was about 8 years old when I came home from school and told my mother I didn't believe
Irish_Dem
Oct 2025
#64
Oh Yes. We carried them around in little packets in our purses. Then popped them on our heads
Irish_Dem
Oct 2025
#36
Not Catholic, but I remember the thing about women needing to cover their heads...
3catwoman3
Oct 2025
#61
It's a choice. You can not enter the temple or leave the church. That's the choice.
Melon
Oct 2025
#67
Children are under the direction of their parents. The parents make the choice for a minor. It's a choice.
Melon
Oct 2025
#70
If it's any comfort, men wear the same sort of "underwear". No one is forced to do anyrthing, LDS are ...
marble falls
Oct 2025
#26
That's because you don't understand it. Some say Joseph Smith took the idea of these garments from ...
marble falls
Oct 2025
#47
Anyone who wears secret religious underwear is weird and sexually inappropriate.
Irish_Dem
Oct 2025
#48
No. The "underwear" is not meant to be seen by anyone else. These are called Temple Garments, and those ...
marble falls
Oct 2025
#28
Pretty much. If I remember right they were sold in department stores and
leftyladyfrommo
Oct 2025
#20
Definition: Forward Tinking - moving from the 7th century to the 8th. Now 100 years ahed of the Taliban.
Wonder Why
Oct 2025
#29
Women are second-class citizens within the religion, though. And that's ingrained
Scrivener7
Oct 2025
#56
It's a statistic. Also one of the states with the highest antidepressant use.
Scrivener7
Oct 2025
#72