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Okay, so. My sister, this past spring, decided to attend high-school prom. Not something I'd likely do, but not something with which I have any particular problem. In the process of preparing, she went out and got a dress. Again, not something I'd do, but not something to which I object to.

This fall, she decides she wants to attend the Homecoming dance. Which makes me feel like she's a bit over-danced, but what's a guy to do? Anyway, she is apparently of the opinion that she needs a brand-new, separate dress for that.

What? Okay, a suit is a suit. I'd be equally willing to wear my suit to church, to work, to court, to the White House... And a dress is pretty much equivalent to a suit, right? So, therefore, a dress is a dress. I mean, unless you get down to sundresses and that sort of thing. So if you've already got a dress, what exactly is the problem with reusing it?

How long will this keep going?

Since about the twelfth about half of the letters-to-the-editor section of The Salt Lake Tribune have been, at least ostensibly, reactions to the recent conflict between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a homosexual couple regarding what is appropriate behavior on the Main Street Plaza, which the church owns.

In that time I have seen four - four! - of these letters that were not explicitly bashing the church.

I know, I should be thinking of this in terms of D&C 122 - "Know, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good... Fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever." But it's just... arrgh.