This post reminds me...the LDS Church had a guy in one of their quorums, cant remember which, named J. Golden Kimball, does that name ring a bell to you either of you? One of my LDS friends in Salt Lake was telling me about him and his legendary, “colorful” antics.
You got me curious, so I Googled. Quite a character!:
Quotes from J. Golden Kimball:
* “Cut me off from the church? They can’t do that! I repent too damn fast.”
* “I may not walk the straight and the narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can!”
* “There are not enough general authorities to do all the thinking for the membership of the church.”
* “I love all of the brethren, but I love some a hell of a lot more than I do others.”
* “I don’t know how the people of St. George can stand the heat, the Indians, the snakes and the flooding Virgin River. If I had a house in St. George and a house in Hell, I’d rent out the one in St. George and move straight to Hell.”
* “This city (Brigham City) looks like hell. You need to clean things up, mow the grass, paint your houses and barns. And you sisters, you could stand a little paint yourselves.”
* “Young men, always marry a woman from Sanpete County. No matter what hard times you experience together, she has seen worse.”
* “I understand you brethren can’t go on missions because you swear too much. You can overcome it. Hell, I did.’ ....
(When once asked if he was afraid that his language would get him kicked out of the Church, Kimball is reported to have replied, "I can't be cut off the Church; I repent too damn fast!")I love reading stories about J Golden Kimball.
Sometimes, however, he earned the censure of President Heber J. Grant because of his colorful language. He was known for using "damn" and "hell" over the pulpit, words that J. Golden always claimed were simply left over from his days as a cowboy and rancher. "You must understand" he would say, "these words are left overs from a much larger vocabulary."