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Education Week: Beauty paradox distorts social perception of beauty

August 18, 2016 12:00 AM
Stephanie Dibb Sorensen said the world promotes 'surface beauty,' which values a sensual outward appearance created by specific body types, clothes, makeup and accessories. This type of beauty encourages an attitude of covering up flaws in life rather than fixing them, according to Sorensen. (Maddi Dayton)
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Don't rate righteousness

March 31, 2015 12:00 AM
A recent opinion piece criticizes individuals who watch R-rated movies, claiming that such entertainment is unequivocally offensive to the Holy Ghost and Jesus Christ. While caution should be exercised in making our entertainment choices, the Church has not drawn any such line in the sand, and choosing to do so risks becoming pharisaical. Any individual can make such a choice for themselves, but using that personal decision as a barometer of others’ righteousness is completely inappropriate.
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