"You Do You" is Satan's Counterfeit for "Love One Another"
This is something that I have been wanting to write about for a long time, but haven’t understood it well enough to try until recently. I’ll start with some background. Several years ago when I was studying at BYU, I considered myself to be a pretty free-thinking, open-minded individual (especially in ultra-conservative Provo). In my mind, being “free-thinking” and “open-minded” meant that I had adopted this you-do-you attitude that has been growing in popularity among young adults for many years. My open-minded opinion at the time was something like this: God has told us to “love one another” (John 13:34, 15:12), and to “judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1; 3 Nephi 14:1). So in order to follow that counsel and love everyone, I have to accept that everyone has their agency to make whatever decisions they want, and it’s none of my business what decisions they choose make. I can make the decisions that I want to make, but I have no place telling someone else that the d