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In reply to the discussion: Undergarment upgrades bring many Mormon women comfort and joy [View all]2naSalit
(98,915 posts)24. They can't take them off...
Even in the operating room, ER, or when giving birth! What happens is they are removed except for having them wrapped around an ankle or arm. Seriously, I kind of audited a medical ethics class for three semesters and that's how the nurses to be were instructed to deal with 'the garment' in crisis events.
They also discussed Native American family concerns and other ethical things, was interesting.
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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 29
#13
My mother finally got pissed off enough at the Catholic Church to never go to mass again.
Irish_Dem
Oct 30
#52
I was about 8 years old when I came home from school and told my mother I didn't believe
Irish_Dem
Oct 30
#64
Oh Yes. We carried them around in little packets in our purses. Then popped them on our heads
Irish_Dem
Oct 30
#36
Not Catholic, but I remember the thing about women needing to cover their heads...
3catwoman3
Oct 30
#61
It's a choice. You can not enter the temple or leave the church. That's the choice.
Melon
Oct 30
#67
Children are under the direction of their parents. The parents make the choice for a minor. It's a choice.
Melon
Oct 31
#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 29
#26
That's because you don't understand it. Some say Joseph Smith took the idea of these garments from ...
marble falls
Oct 30
#47
Anyone who wears secret religious underwear is weird and sexually inappropriate.
Irish_Dem
Oct 30
#48
No. The "underwear" is not meant to be seen by anyone else. These are called Temple Garments, and those ...
marble falls
Oct 29
#28
Definition: Forward Tinking - moving from the 7th century to the 8th. Now 100 years ahed of the Taliban.
Wonder Why
Oct 29
#29
Women are second-class citizens within the religion, though. And that's ingrained
Scrivener7
Oct 30
#56