My Daughter was asked to leave the young single adult Halloween party tonight. What was her sin. She wore her Red Sox's baseball shirt and a beard. She was a Red Sox's baseball player. FYI I guess all the Red Sox's players are sporting beards until they win the world series. I guess she was deemed to be a cross dresser.
I would like to bare my testimony that I know the church is working day and night to protect our youth from the sins of the world and to make anything in church with the least bit of fun banned. Dumb asses!!!!! On the bright side she said most of the parties are no fun anyway, so she went to the mall with some friends to gets some eats, yes shirts beard and all.
DebbiePA Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They really are bat-@#$%& crazy, aren't they?
Yup!!!
But mostly, I think, they are desperate and thrashing. At least at the higher levels of power, they know this is the beginning of the denouement.
It may take some decades to slowly wind down to whatever stable position they will then be able to maintain indefinitely, but the "Mormon Moment" in American history has now peaked, and what once was, will never be again.
Okay, if she'd been dressed as a Yankee player I can see kicking her out. But a Red Sox player?! Blasphemy. She should have told them to Get Beard and refused to leave.
That's really crazy, because in 1987, many of the YW dressed in male drag (mustaches & all) for the ward Halloween party (when they were still calling it that), & they weren't kicked out.
I'm sorry that your daughter missed out on a party. I hope that she was more angry than sad. I hope her friends thought the rule was ridiculous. Maybe something good will come out of this unfortunate event.
What would they think of all these parents letting their kids dress in animal costumes? Heavenly Father forbid, those children mock the natural order of things by pretending to be entirely different species. But I suppose that's okay as long as boys stay as bulls and roosters, and girls stay as cows and hens.
Well you can look at this way, maybe this incident will show your daughter what depressing, drone like, robotic, ignorant, hurtful behavior the Mormon church calls christlike.
It is Holloween, and the Mormon church forgot to take their jello enema tonight.
Tell your daughter her costume sound pretty cool. I 've always wanted to be Barbra Streisand being Yentil costume myself.
I thought you were going to bear your testimony that the church was doing everything they possibly could to offend the most possible members right out of the church because of their stupidity.
We had a talent show a few years ago and the bishop, the former bishop and all the young men dressed up as girls and sang "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." I don't think this insanity is church wide. But it's crazy none the less.
I first noticed this policy about 15 years ago. A TSCC Halloween party flyer had it plainly printed along the bottom: NO CROSSDRESSING ALLOWED!
They're just clothes. What is their f-ing point here, do you think?? I it just a patriarchal reaction, a fear of gender expression of any kind that departs from the rigid Mormon stereotype?
Women surely wear uniforms when they play baseball on a team, so it is not cross-dressing. The beard can be worn by the circus "bearded lady". Hence, wearing a baseball uniform (shirt only) and a beard is NOT cross-dressing.
I always loved neverMo and less active YW or YSA women showing up to a church dance in jeans or slacks. They'd be refused entry, in spite of the clothes being completely modest. To go home and change could easily mean a drive of 1 hour or more.
For some inexplicable reason these women often refused to have anything further to do with the church. The important thing is that "standards" were upheld.
Right. But they felt The Spirit™ about how Modesty is True, and so they went home and changed out of their slutwear and immediately called the missionaries begging to be baptized. What a marvelous work and a wonder!