maklelan wrote:sock puppet wrote:mak, back in the day, pre-'85, when you checked in at the temple, they'd ask if you needed a new, clean, unsoiled pair of garments to put on in place of those you came in with, before going through the endowment ceremony. So there must be bodily function defilement of the garments that the temple operations were trying to head off by asking if one needed a new, clean pair of garments before going through.
There "must be," or it just makes sense to you that way?
Have you a better explanation? Any alternative explanation?
I thought not.