GBH, GHB and Other Acronyms

Mormons love acronyms. The origins of this acronym love arose during the 1960s when the baby boomer Mormons took a perverse sense of pride in the fact that Latter Day Saints could be reduced to the acronym, LDS, which was oddly similar to the acronym for Lysergsäure-diethylamid, or LSD. The nearness of the church acronym to a psychedelic drug acronym gave the righteous a sense of consciousness expansion and spiritual awakening without having to sin and actually take the drug. You could listen to the Grateful Dead and take your LDS.

A similar phenomenon is occurring with the current generation of young Mormons, who think it is cool that the leader of the church and prophet, Gorden B. Hinckley or GBH for short, sounds an awful lot like the mind altering, date rape inducing rave drug, Gamma hydroxy butyrate or GHB for short. They can listen to electro-techno pop and follow the words of GBH. You want to be in the world, but not of it, but you should also try and be cool -- even if it means you have dyslexic acronyms.