...it is clear that it is the faithfulness to covenants that will be a protection to the wearer...
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“Inasmuch as you do not defile it,
If you DEFILE your underwear???
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No Elsie, I’m sure you realize that the wearing of the garment is a symbol of the covenants made. Defiling the covenants is what is being talked about. There are conditions to receiving the garment, the same as getting a temple recommend. if you defile the garment it means that you have defiled your covenants. That is why it is better for some of us to be non-Mormon, that way there is nothing to defile.
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The text does NOT say that.
THE GARMENT
[An officiator clothes the initiate in the garment. The officiator then pronounces the following words.]
Brother _________, having authority, I place this garment upon you [for and in behalf of _________, who is dead], which you must wear throughout your life. It represents the garment given to Adam when he was found naked in the garden of Eden and is called the garment of the holy priesthood.
Inasmuch as you do not defile it, but are true and faithful to your covenants, it will be a shield and a protection to you against the power of the destroyer until you have finished your work on the earth.