3 Reasons You Should Stop Saying, ‘I Can’t, I’m Mormon’
"I can't, I'm Mormon."
If you're anything like me, this is a phrase you've used frequently to explain restrictions non-LDS people might find bizarre.
Get invited to a sketchy party on Friday night?
"I can't, I'm Mormon."
Someone asks you go to shopping on Sunday?
"I can't, I'm Mormon."
Get handed a cup of coffee?
"I can't, I'm Mormon."
As far as explanations go, it's pretty short and to-the-point.
But around my senior year in high school, I stopped using this explanation. Here are three
Not necessarily. You could have explained till you were blue in the face why you had no interest in going to a Mens Club. But once you said "Mormon", that simple word possibly explained more to them the "root" of why you had no interest. They would of course view this from their perspective of how they saw Mormons, but in this case, that simple word explained more than having to go into a long explanation that would have still left them baffled.
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