The spirit can't provide someone with a good first impression if they have a beard?!? That'll be an issue when we meet the original apostles in Heaven. We'll be standoffish with Abinadi.

All that said, our football team is replete with hair violations of all sorts, so....
Maybe it's time to let women wear pants, everyone to wear jeans, allow no socks, add weirdly long shorts, and now facial hair.