[Colofornian]

I'm married to a Mormon who wears the garments, they're underwear period. The underwear is rather plain and if it weren't for the little symbols sewn onto them you could buy them at any store that sells undergarments. They have sacred symbols on them to remind them of the promises they made to God. They are a protection to them in the same way that people who are true to their faith are protected by God. Only cynical, Non-Mormons call them “Magic Underwear”.

Eleven years ago this month, the Lds Church published in its Ensign magazine an article by Elder David E. Sorensen which included this comment from Sorensen, representing the official Mormon church:

"...The garment, … when properly worn, will serve as a protection against temptation and evil."

And, uncanningly, four years ago YESTERDAY, I asked the following question on a FR thread about Mormon underwear:

"Why is it @ Mormon testimony meetings we don't hear testimonies about how somebody's temple garment (Underwear) saved them from temptation and evil? Anybody know of such a testimony?

The Doctrine of Temple Work (Mormonism - Open) (post #16) ALL: I recommend you check out that entire thread...381 responses...

[JAKraig]

“Why is it @ Mormon testimony meetings we don't hear testimonies about how somebody’s temple garment (Underwear) saved them from temptation and evil? Anybody know of such a testimony?

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First you would have to go to a Mormon Testimony meeting to hear such a claim. there are over 30000 Testimony meetings each month, you would have to go to a lot of meetings to hear them all. But, taking my tongue out of my cheek, you don't hear them because when the garment is properly worn, and that has nothing to do with the garment but the qualifications for it, you don't approach evil. Mormons die in car wrecks, get murdered, have their houses broken into just like everybody else, but, I do suspect they rob banks less frequently or commit adultery less frequently than the general population, at least I suspect this is so for people properly wearing the garment.

[Elsie]

...Elder David E. Sorensen which included this comment from Sorensen, representing the official Mormon church:

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Where can we find an 'OFFICIAL MORMON' teaching website??

Official sites are sites supported by LDS officials unless said official sites are considered unofficial by said officials.

 

At that point such sites are unofficial unless officially referenced for official purposes by officials who can do so officially.

 

This should not be misconstrued as an indication that official sites can be unofficially recognized as official nor should it be implied that unofficial sites cannot contain official information, but are not officially allowed to be offical despite their official contents due the their unofficialness.

 

Official sites will be official and recognized as official by officials of the LDS unless there is an official reason to mark them as unofficial either temporally or permanently, which would make the official content officially unofficial.

 

This is also not to imply that recognized sites, often used on FR by haters and bigots cannot contain official information, it just means that content, despite its official status, is no longer official and should be consider unofficial despite the same information being official on an official site elsewhere.

 

Even then the officialness my be amended due to the use of the unofficial information which may determine the officialness of anything be it official or unofficial depending on how and where it is used officially or unofficially.

I hope this clear things up for the lurkers out there.

The haters tend to make things complicated and confusing when it is all really quite crystal clear.

--Ejonesie22