Today is “Wear Pants to Church Day” among Mormons. No, this
isn’t a traditional holy day, it’s a new protest day invented by Latter Day
Feminists among the Latter Day Saints. These radical Latter Day Saintanistas put up a
Facebook page to get some traction for their protest, but the page was taken
down after they received death threats. The LA Times quoted one of these:
“every single person who is a minority activist should be shot… in the face…
point blank… GET OVER YOURSELVES….”
Does this mean an activist who is from a minority group, or does this mean someone who is an activist for a minority group? Clearly some Mormons need more grammar.
Anyway, I’m not surprised that Mormons can be this violent. Remember
the Mountain Meadows massacre? That's when Mormon militias murdered everyone on a wagon
train passing through Utah Territory on its way to California. It happened on
September 11, 1857. Yes, September 11: a day fanatics seem to love when it
comes to mass murder. Mormons can be murderous just like the rest of us, so,
like the fellow said on Facebook, GET OVER YOURSELVES.
No, what surprised me was that Mormon women can’t where
slacks to church. I had no idea. And there is a good reason why I had no idea
that Mormon woman can’t wear pants to church, and that’s because there’s no law
against Mormon woman wearing pants to church. They just don’t, but its not
because they can’t.
So the feminist protest isn’t even breaking a law, just
tweaking a habit. And yet even that was enough to set Mormon against Mormon.
This is what I love about religion: there is nothing too
trivial to kill over.
3 comments:
Maybe - just maybe - this is why there's a slowly growing group called "Spiritual, Not Religious."
Maybe people are beginning to believe "Same behavior, Same Results" and think it's time to put "different' into practice.
Maybe this is "The Shift" I keep seeing in print . . .
Thank you for being here . . . Thank you for this post - I didn't know . .
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Rami, your "i had no idea" remark about pants made me laugh. You have a way of doing that with incredible timeliness. I will always be grateful for you and your brilliant sense of humor and intellectual perspectives on all of this nonsense. Thank you :)
Thanks to you both.
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