The unfriendly congregation occurred here in Florida.
The preacher asking me if I was Mormon occurred in the outskirt of Provo, Utah about five years ago. If anybody showed up to his church on Sunday with a white shirt and tie, he knew that person would probably be a visiting Mormon.
In post 885, I thought I had made it clear that I have attended several different Evangelical churches and I also thought that I had made it clear that this was a different congregation. A preacher asking me jovially before a meeting if I was Mormon is not confronting me.
I have talked about visits to two distinct and separate Evangelical congregations and I believe you have conflated them into a single congregation.
Why did you visit this church? And why did you wear something that would so easily identify you as lds? Especially, when you apparently knew it might cause the visiting church to be uncomfortable, as well as yourself.
CONFLATED?
Hmmm, conflated, conflation.....Where in the heck have I heard that word used lately?
I don't believe your posts were clear in describing different congregations. However, wearing a white shirt and tie to a strange Evangelical service may get you as many perusals as would wearing a Hawaiian shirt and shorts to a mormon ward would.
I can almost guarantee that there would indeed be "glares" in the later situation, or an invitation to leave.
(I might add that anyone coming in after the service starts will get STARED at by a few as well.)
After the service; MANY of our folks talked to and shook hands with the Missionary visitors.
(No; we were NOT checking for BONES! ;^)