Mormon Open Forum

It is an honor to be a co-blogger on this fantastic anything goes blog born out of a thread jack of one of Aaron B Cox’ posts over at Banner Of Heaven (a great LDS site, BTW).

Now in that thread jack I commented “Like I’m on the East Coast and we’re in a tropical air mass, high 80’s F and light rain (100% humidity). Where can someone do a post declaring that only an extreme sicko masochist would be wearing their G’s in this weather and saying they’re comfy going to the temple and only putting on their G’s once they’re inside in the AC?”.

So here in my debut post at Mormon Open Forum, I’d like to start with that timely summer topic for endowed members. (at least those living in the northern hemisphere, you downunder folks will get your turn soon enough). That is, when are you comfy being a regular temple goer and not wearing your G’s?

As reflected above, for me it’s pretty much whenever I sweat, the G’s come off. I’ve even gone to the temple in the summer and not put the G’s on until I was inside and comfy in the AC of the temple locker room. Now I’m comfy w/ this practice under the rationale that we don’t have to wear them when playing sports, swimming , etc. So not wearing them when you’re sweating like a pig makes senses to me too. (yeah, I know pig’s don’t actually sweat). At work I have AC in my office, but I’m frequently outdoors too, and just can’t handle wearing G’s in this weather.

I also sleep naked w/ my wife. I mean all the time, any night I’m home or she’s with me on the road, which seems outside the instruction we’re given. In our second year of marriage (our temple marriage followed marriage by a bishop) my wife would come to bed with the G’s on and put them back on afterward, but after a while she began to follow my lead. Also, like a lot of guys, I prefer mornings so waking up nude w/ the wife facilitates things. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll do it any night, if that’s what she wants.

So in practice between coming home from work, taking a backyard evening swim and going to bed, etc, there are some summers my G’s stay in the drawer for a several days at time. When the weather breaks, it’s seems like a hassle to get back into the G’s, but my wife kind of stays on top of the situation keeps me w/ the program. When I travel in the summer, which is often, I always pack some G’s just in case the weather breaks, but to be honest, I do that more to keep wifey happy than out of any personal motivation.

This all leads me to ponder the next step in temple garment evolution. From the long version, to the shorter one piece to the present two piecers, I think the next logical step is to forgo fabric entirely and move to a symbolic pendant wore around the neck a kin to crosses and crucifixes common with other Christians. This would maintain the symbolism of the garment but avoid the problem of weather related garment hiatus. We could even wear and receive protection from the pendant during sports, swimming, etc. Of course, I leave it to the GA’s to designed a suitable temple pendant to replace the garment.

So, what do others care to see as the next trend in temple fashion?

Steve (FSF)

Ann says:

I have always wanted to say this on FMH, but haven’t, because I like it there, and I only think this way 80% of the time…

Women are irrelevent to the church. We are breeders. Our only purpose is to produce and raise righteous priesthood holders. We are only valued in our abilities as long as those talents are channeled to encourage the breeding of priesthood holders by our sisters.

Thank you. I feel better.