In my obvservation and speculation, it has nothing to do with kosher and everything to do with PR. Beards were commonplace in the early days of the church. Modern society sees beards as less-professional, and so church leaders and missionaries (and as a wacky side effect BYU students) don't do beards in our day.
* Arthur Moore [Mon, 15 Sep 2003 at 14:42 -0700] <quote> > Ross Werner wrote: > >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, District Webmaster wrote: > > > >>As I understand it, the church doesn't care one wit about facial hair, > >>unless you're acting in a official representative capacity, such as a > >>Missionary or General authority. And I can see their point -- can you > >>imagine the sister missionaries w/ beards? I wouldn't let them in . . . > >> > >>Now some of the church _schools_ care about facial hair, but not the > >>church. A 21 year-old with a full beard is welcome to take the > >>sacrament, hold the priesthood, chase the single women and marry them > >>in the temple, etc. > > > > > >But [so the rumour on mission went] they won't be called to any bishopric > >or stake calling so long as they have a beard (and maybe not Elder's > >Quorum President, either). I've heard many stories about various people > >(like this Shreveport instance) "counseling" church members not to have > >beards. > > > >We all figured it was the best way to escape getting a major calling in > >the church--just grow a beard! I just have to wait until I graduate, first > >... > > So Rumour or no rumour, why do you think this is? are beards non-kosher? > I guess with a layclergy, I don't see any reason to have different rules > for the clergy and for the lay. I mean If we shouldn't have beards while > we serve in leadership capacities then I don't think we should have > beards while not in leadership. I guess I'm one of those guys who like > to know why a certain rule is a certain way (even though sometimes we > can't know why something is someway.) > > Art > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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