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In reply to the discussion: Undergarment upgrades bring many Mormon women comfort and joy [View all]marble falls
(68,992 posts)26. If it's any comfort, men wear the same sort of "underwear". No one is forced to do anyrthing, LDS are ...
        ... are very big on Fee Will.
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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
        Wednesday
        #13
      
        
        My mother finally got pissed off enough at the Catholic Church to never go to mass again.
        Irish_Dem
        18 hrs ago
        #52
      
        
        I was about 8 years old when I came home from school and told my mother I didn't believe
        Irish_Dem
        15 hrs ago
        #64
      
        
        Oh Yes.  We carried them around in little packets in our purses.  Then popped them on our heads
        Irish_Dem
        23 hrs ago
        #36
      
        
        Not Catholic, but I remember the thing about women needing to cover their heads...
        3catwoman3
        15 hrs ago
        #61
      
        
        It's a choice.  You can not enter the temple or leave the church.  That's the choice.
        Melon
        2 hrs ago
        #67
      
        
        If it's any comfort, men wear the same sort of "underwear". No one is forced to do anyrthing, LDS are ...
        marble falls
        Wednesday
        #26
      
        
        That's because you don't understand it. Some say Joseph Smith took the idea of these garments from ...
        marble falls
        18 hrs ago
        #47
      
        
        Anyone who wears secret religious underwear is weird and sexually inappropriate.
        Irish_Dem
        18 hrs ago
        #48
      
        
        No. The "underwear" is not meant to be seen by anyone else. These are called Temple Garments, and those ...
        marble falls
        Wednesday
        #28
      
        
        Pretty much.  If I remember right they were sold in department stores and
        leftyladyfrommo
        Wednesday
        #20
      
        
        Definition: Forward Tinking - moving from the 7th century to the 8th. Now 100 years ahed of the Taliban.
        Wonder Why
        Wednesday
        #29
      
        
        Women are second-class citizens within the religion, though.  And that's ingrained
        Scrivener7
        17 hrs ago
        #56
      
  