Comments on: What should I do if I know of someone wearing temple garments unworthily? https://askgramps.org/what-should-i-do-if-i-know-of-someone-wearing-temple-garments-unworthily/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Douglas Self https://askgramps.org/what-should-i-do-if-i-know-of-someone-wearing-temple-garments-unworthily/#comment-35736 Sat, 20 May 2017 09:10:00 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/?p=11525#comment-35736 The answer is well-intended but utterly incorrect with regard to disfellowshipped members. If anything, they are encouraged to wear their garments, if endowed, as well as resume living their lives IAW the things they learned in the Temple and general Church standards. Of course, until reinstated to full fellowship, the member can’t enter the Temple, but their covenant to wear the garment is still in effect.
I simply wouldn’t know if a disfellowshipped member can purchase garments if (s)he simply gives her/his member number, much the same as a member in normal standing that simply doesn’t have a current recommend. Didn’t have to deal with the issue.

Someone who was excommunicated is NO LONGER a member of the Church, pure and simple. An ‘excommunicated member’ is an oxymoron. Of course such a person can’t buy garments at Beehive Clothing, and should NOT wear the garment as the Temple covenant is not in effect. If they do, it’s in a spirit of defiance, or at minimum some pathetic form of ‘denial’. Of course, the garment itself is just cloth with the ‘Authorized Pattern’, w/o the covenant to make it what it is, it’s nothing more than long underwear. I suppose that if for some reason I wasn’t able to wear the garment, I’d do like Peter Griffin of “Family Guy”

Chris (at the Greyhound race track with Peter): “Gee, Dad, where are the jockeys”

Peter: “In the laundry, son. Today I’m “going Indian”.

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