Your Dollars are Dirty?!?

Years ago, while on a stake visit, President Kimball interviewed a brother who was a grocer by trade.  I quote President Kimball,

“What do you sell in this store?’ . . . ‘Groceries and miscellaneous merchandise.’  ‘Your competitors sell other things including forbidden things, do they not?’  I asked.  ‘Yes, but we have felt it was not right. . . We lost trade, of course.  People leave our store and go to the other store and buy many dollar’s worth of groceries where they can get a few cans of beer or some wine, but we do not sell it.’  And I could not refrain from saying, ‘God bless you, my faithful brother. . . . Your dollars are clean.’”  (Melchizedek Priesthood Personal Study Guide 1984, p. 84)

 This story really strikes me as something I want to ponder more in my life. This idea of whether or not the money I have acquired is clean or dirty. We are raised and asked the question in LDS culture to answer the following interview question "Are you honest in your dealing with your fellow men?" The more I have pondered this story and in regards to some of the "ethical" questions I may have not cared so much about before I have realized that it does matter and it matters to me how I earn my money. I have never been dishonest in business knowingly. I truly feel this is a metaphor that all business majors and business individuals should consider.