The recent Tribune article on the BYU-Hawaii campus’ rules for grooming reminded me of a quote from the eminent LDS scholar and late BYU professor Hugh Nibley.
Nibley, speaking in the Joseph Smith Lecture Series, 1972-73, on the topic “What is Zion?, said:
“The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence of proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism . . . the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.”
Norm Koller, Bountiful