May 20th, 2003 -- by Bacchus
Special Mormon Underpants
The Mormons, word has it, wear special underwear to the temple. Mt. Molelog found a picture:
Is that a stuffed codpiece? Or do they just put extra layers of cloth in that area to deter unseemly lust from rearing its ugly head when the sermon gets hot and heavy?
UPDATE: ErosBlog is informed that the special Mormon underpants are for daily wear, if you are that sort of Mormon; not just for wearing to temple as the post suggests. Only their bikini waxers know for sure….
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Do you show this much disrespect for all religions? Planning to put up a mockery of Jewish prayer shawls? Or Sikh headdresses? Or Catholic clerical vestments?
Those other items aren’t as funny as the Mormon underpants are.
The United States has a long history of tolerence for religious diversity. We also have a long history of laughing uproariously at funny religious practices. Tolerance means “we don’t persecute you” — it doesn’t mean “we respect your odd ideas and funny clothing.”
That said, I don’t feel I “put up a mockery” of the Mormon underpants. I just put up a picture, the underpants mocked themselves.
Any religion that dictates proper and exact underwear specifications and usage is worthy of a good laugh.
And far more funny than any other religious garb..
-with possible exception to the Heaven’s Gate cult’s windbreaker and addidas suicide..sad.. but amusing.
Unless you’re a scientologist.. which .. we just laugh at you no matter what you’re wearing.
i recently did some laundry at my parents’ house and came home with a pair of my father’s mormon “garments” in the mix. perhaps it’s a way of heavenly father reaching out and inviting me back to the fold…by sliding me a pair of my father’s special underwear on the dl: a modern-day miracle lagniappe.
however,jesting gentiles who jab at mormon undies ought to be mindful of mormons’ own view of their underwear. sanctity aside, mormons understand that their underclothing practices are peculiar to all, even novel to a few. but garments have always been novel to mormons. as such, mormons have already beat us to all the good jokes. my friends and i all knew them as “jesus jammies” on the playground. the frequency and nonchalance of the term “buttflap” in my house growing up would astound you.
my father has taken to retrieving the newspaper in the morning wearing only his garments. sometimes the paper on the sidewalk.
I was brought up Mormon, (growing up in salt lake makes it hard not to) and about the age of reason I gave up on the silly practices… And as was stated before these are a “daily wear” and you have to have a special “recomend” to purchase them, meaning you have to jump through the mormon loops to prove that you are “holy” enough to wear these underpants. So not all mormons get to wear these “jesus jammies” only the ones who are A: Good enough liars or B: Really are true mormon “lemmings” and follow the teachings of their doctrine