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Date: March 29, 2024 11:07PM
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/03/29/lds-church-steps-up-this-message/"Leaders soon will send an updated question to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who want to enter one of the faith’s temples, reemphasizing that they should wear their sacred underwear as instructed.
General authority Seventy Kevin Hamilton reportedly said as much during a recent stake conference in Elk Grove, Calif.
According to several women who attended the regional gathering, Hamilton informed members that, unlike the faith’s current temple recommend question, the new one won’t leave wearing garments up to personal interpretation.
Hamilton, who is on a committee studying possible redesign of garments, told the assembled lay leaders that too many younger women wear them mostly on Sundays and when attending the temple, recalled conferencegoer Colleen Speer, rather than every day."
"Hamilton said many younger women are opting for “yoga pants” during the week, Speer recalled.
Translation: Women don’t wear garments under yoga pants.
In response to such individual choices, Speer said the authority declared: “There is only one covenant path.”
"It seems Latter-day Saint authorities believe there is a problem with current patterns of garment use.
In a 2022 regional leadership broadcast, general authority Seventy Kevin Pearson, the Utah Area president, said the church was “dismayed at the casual and even cavalier way some [members] treat their temple covenants, including the casual and inconsistent wearing of the temple garment.”
Such noncompliance reflected “a growing sense of spiritual apathy and sporadic covenant keeping,” Pearson said, “that is becoming increasingly common among those who should know and do better.”
Wearing temple garments, Pearson said, has “nothing to do with personal preference and convenience and everything to do with commitment.”