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Bountiful, Utah, a city preferred by the Mormon elite, has passed a new policy whereby anyone with a visible tattoo will not be able to work for the city (there is a grandfather clause for those already hired). While I personally don’t care for tattoos, I don’t think anyone should be passed over for being mayor, garbage man, tax collector or city manager just because they have “I love my mom” tattooed on their lower arm (though anything offensive would be an exception). Members of the inking community say this policy will never stand up in court and I have to agree. It is free speech. What do you think?Recently I’ve noticed tattoos on several people I know to be faithful LDS and I have to admit it makes them more intriguing to me as a little ink is a clear sign that at some point in their lives they’ve gone against the norm. (Check out the guy with the LDS prophet tattoos below) While on a playdate last week I looked down and noticed one of the mothers, the most staunch in the group, had a tat on her ankle. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to ask her about it, but the best story behind a tattoo I’ve heard was from a friend who got his while serving a mission. He said it was like a symbol of himself fighting to survive beneath the suit of missionary monotony. While President Hinckley described tattoos as “graffiti on the temple of the body,” it seems some members have no problem tagging themselves, except for those already living in the celestial kingdom of Bountiful who’ve decided they can’t be paying their water bill to woman with a butterfly on her neck.
Do you have a tattoo? If so, what it is and why did you get it? Would you ever get one and if so, what would it be? What is your perception of a person with a tattoo?
