Are mormons group counterculture?
Saying someone is ‘counterculture’ implies that they try to be ‘different’ than everyone else, whereas church members are just trying to be righteous and upright individuals, whether that means they are like the dominant culture or not. Yes, they do oppose such things as premarital and extramarital sex, homosexual behavior, immodest dress, alcohol and drug use, and coffee and tobacco, which are dominant in our society today. They do not oppose these things because they are trying to ‘go against the grain’, but because they are morally opposed to them. If the rest of society also did not drink alcohol, Mormons would not switch to drinking it, but continue to avoid it. There is evidence of this in the fact that members of the church do not reject ALL parts of popular culture – they do drive cars, go to public school, use TV and internet, wear modern clothes, dance, listen to secular music, etc.
