Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess on how often Latter-day Saints wear temple garments.
Underclothing, known as garments, worn by faithful men and women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are shown in these church-authorized photos.In sum, the language about wearing the garment “day and night” is back. From 1976 until 2019, the temple recommend interview asked members if they were wearing their garments “night and day as instructed in the endowment.
The first is that a majority of people who are supposed to be wearing their garments said they were wearing them on the day they took the survey. In all, 54.5% said they were sporting temple garments at that moment. More than 8 in 10 baby boomers and older said they were wearing their garments on the day of the survey . That compares with — wait for it — just 42% of Generation X, 36% of millennials and 41% of Generation Z. As a reminder, these percentages don’t include people of any generation who hadn’t been anointed and endowed in the first place — only those who had participated in temple rituals and were therefore expected to wear garments.
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