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  2. On the plus side, there’s no mention of gibbets, or assassins, or the pain of crucifixion. 🙂

    On a more serious note, I do wish some of the YM in the stake had been taught to remove their baseball caps while in the churchhouse, and to uncover their head while praying.

    So much of basic manners seems to have been left behind. Or maybe I’m finally reaching the age where the age-old complaint of”where are the youngsters’ manners?” finally seems relevant.

  3. I sympathize with the boys who want to keep their hats on (a perpetual problem when I was a Boy Scout) more than I used to. On the one hand, it’s like wearing a raincoat indoors — the bill/brim is for dealing with the sun, not for dealing with the overhead lighting. On the other hand, who wants to deal with the hat hair problem, then juggle a hat indoors all day? It’s fine for me — I have plenty of desk space, and the hat I wear on my walk to work can live there all day. However, if I were going from classroom to classroom every hour, well, school desks are small, the back of the chair isn’t an option like it is for coats, and my school didn’t have coat/hat hooks in classrooms or any reasonable sort of locker situation. It starts to look like the most reasonable place to keep a hat is on your head.

    Plus, I’m deeply suspicious of any sartorial advice dispensed by a clown.

  5. One Sunday my high school aged son brought a friend to church. This young man was a bit concerned that his very bright blue hair would be out of place, so he wore a hat. One sister in the ward insisted that he take his hat off because it was disrespectful to have it on. AWKWARD! I’m afraid that that in my opinion it would have been better to say, “Hello. Welcome. We’re glad to see you and hope you will return.” Oh well.

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