On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Arthur Moore wrote: > 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.)
>From what I heard about the BYU rule, it came to pass during the "hippies" era where all these free-love druggies wore their hair long and had these untrimmed, ratty beards--so BYU stuck that in the dress code (er, I mean Honor Code). After that, there wasn't a big problem any more with ratty beards--people with facial hair tend to keep it clean and looking nice--but I guess society's views on beards tended to be a little different even after that movement had passed. Probably the church's unofficial "rumor" position on the subject is influenced because of that. (Of course, that doesn't excuse BYU for trying to photoshop Brigham Young's beard off quite a few years back, if any of you heard about that fiasco. I think Hugh Nibley wrote about it in one of his books.) ~ ross p.s. ok, this thread is /really/ off-topic now. Pretend this is some comment that links beards with Unix-based systems somehow and thus justifies this entire thread. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
