The Mormons

high-minded liberal refusal to take the obvious shots often confuses me. no one has to demonize mormonism or mormons. if powerful jewish voices were raised in protest of this specific practice, and if powerful christian and democratic voices echoed the cry, then i could see this becoming an effective tool against romney (and against the mormon church in general). maybe best saved for the general, i dunno...

the general assholes

ah, and maybe i'm wrong. maybe it would come across as cheap, underhanded religion-bashing no matter what. was just a thought...

IDK it doesn't seem that weird TO ME

bigger scandal could be: does romney tithe based on total revenue or income from speaking fees only?

yeah net or gross income tithe, Romney>?

Obama's mother posthumously baptized into LDS Church

Obama: SECRET MORMON

they stole his dead mother.....now he wants her back (liam neeson as b obama)

if romney were a democrat, however, i bed we'd be hearing a LOT about it.

no. No one has attacked Reid for simply BEING a Mormon.

This is not a story. No one in the US reads the Guardian, this story won't even get reported in the American press, much less exploited by anyone for political gain.

lol do you know what the biggest show on Broadway is this year

If there's one thing deeply conservative religious Americans love, it's Broadway.

could someone tell me if shakey thinks this is an important news story? thx

Basically I just want some reporter to ask Romney about if he's wearing magic underwear right now for the ensuing lulz.

Yes. Yes, he is.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/14/article-2100995-11BCBB68000005DC-11_468x330.jpg

As someone who will likely be baptized posthumously into the Mormon church, I just look at it this way: in the afterlife, I'll open up my wallet and there'll be an LDS card. And much like the expired Books-A-Million card I have in my wallet now, I'll go "the fuck is this, I'm never going to use this!" on occasion before sticking it back in there with my other cards because, let's face it, sometimes I'm on the toilet and need something, anything to read.

no. No one has attacked Reid for simply BEING a Mormon.

yeah, but nevada is a heavily mormon state. wouldn't make political sense to anger mormons in nevada, so reid's always been safe on that score. anyway, i'm not talking about directly attacking romney. i'm talking about subtly encouraging sympathetic jewish and catholic religious leaders to make a big, bloody ISSUE of the post-mortem baptism of holocaust victims and the like, enough to bring it into the news cycle. then the fringier, angrier, "grassroots" elements of the democratic base could run with it like a pack of maniacs - the way the tea partiers ran with obama's birth certificate and the swift boaters ran with gore's war record - all while the "respectable" dem leadership remained above the fray. dirty pool, in other words.

real problem, i suppose, is that the dem base isn't terribly upset by the practice, and don't do outrage for sport. they seem averse to moral outrage on general principle, tbh. so they won't seize on the story organically, and any attempt to conjure up the appearance of a "controversy" without corresponding public anger would probably backfire. ah, well. it was a fine dream...

Obama's mother posthumously baptized into LDS Church

Not only Obama's mother, but Simon Wiesenthal's parents as well

And we've come circle.

Which usually doesn't happen in LDS since everything is for eternity.

haha I should have looked at the whole thread

lol

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omg @ "mormonad"

Yah Mormonads

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ykeKGjX7mBg/Tw5Qsw25TAI/AAAAAAAAAr4/1oKRH27eXQM/s1600/MormonAd+Winners.jpg

CHOOSE THE MOST MORMON DRESS

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otm about white-boy slap bass, at least

lol THIS one I can get behind:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iAD82Dlk9GA/Sbhc_-Gc2tI/AAAAAAAABJU/F33pM0cKZpk/s320/Text+Messaging.jpg

Don't text on a date, you dummy!
Heavenly Father is on my side when it comes to phone etiquette.

CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUmuisDK11c&feature=player_embedded#!

WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT LEATHERBYS

Why would you ignore an ice cream sundae?

That's a parfait, get your head in the game!

Went to a v cute and snowy little ice cream shop like that when I went to visit my family. My sister, her husband, and I ended up having loud ~~~ice cream drama~~~ over whether gay people should be able to marry, so maybe the insular and stupid world of texting has its malty place.

http://alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com/

The best thing about that site is how Mormony all the Mormon names are, it's like hanging out in the Tooele cemetery.

I've already converted several Romneys, just by chance.

I would happily accept a gay card for my after-life wallet, if it helps me any.

CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE

hahahahahah!!!!

so many flavors - this was one thing my ex-mormon ex-bf still shares with the religion he was brought up in. He gets super disappointed and a bit snobby tbh when a place that has milkshakes has only 3 or 4 flavors. His 2nd brother is even worse, and would go to Denny's and insist on a blueberry cobbler milkshake, and get irate when the Denny's employee would not indulge him by mixing the vanilla milkshake with a piece of blueberry pie. Pretty sure he's given places bad yelp reviews for not doing this.

There is a definite bittersweetness for ex-Mormons, at death, when their family members have a funeral or post death announcements, etc. Someone from my hometown was murdered recently. Total hard punk rock gal, didn't know her too well except from seeing her at local shows at the bar where old Mexicans hung out. So there's the death announcement, picture of her in lime green eyeshadow and Horus eyeliner and a bondage top, with the message that she's returned to the loving embrace of her Heavenly Father. Probably hasn't been in a church since she was a teenager. Shit is just weird.

Or when another punk friend died maybe 10 years ago. His dad was a Mormon state senator and none of his friends (eg me) were allowed to go to the funeral because we'd "send the wrong impression."

i guess this would be the right place for this...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/10/cat-buried-in-cement-sent-as-warning-from-polygamist-church2/

what i found *most* shocking is this has happened before and the authorities couldn't be bothered to look into it?!

So my brother-in-law, who went on a mission to Minneapolis, was telling me they market a special "missionary friendly" bike called THE LIAHONA:

http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/bicycles/liahona-missionary-bike-package-1-liahona-27-speed-bike-with-disc-brake/

He loved that it was called the Liahona because he could make jokes all the time whenever they got lost – "Sorry I couldn't get it to go the right direction."

Mpls has a rep as a bike friendly town but his mission president made them wear full suits in the summer on their bikes, which has to be hell no matter how nice your bike paths are. He admitted the first ten days on bike in suits were a painful challenge to adjust to.

He also served in Prince's area – I was like 'omg did you knock on the door of Prince's mansion." He said no, but that one of Prince's neighbors was an inactive member (meaning her name was on the records but she quite participating), so they visited her a lot to cajole her to attend church. She said one day that Prince had visited HER door as a JW missionary, and she went head-to-head with him on Bible precepts for two hours.

!!!!

dunno if this ever got posted here: extreme mormons. (full segment on the subject of mormon movies here.)

http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/microfiber/microfiber-tie-style-40/
"Microfiber ties are a blend of polyester and polyamide and they are durable as well as stain resistant. Just what every Missionary needs. - See more at: http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/microfiber/microfiber-tie-style-40/#sthash.YbfDK7fj.dpuf";

not a bad tie for $8!

This may sound flip, but it is really, really not: nothing prepared me for North Korea so much as having lived in Utah.

OK I should amend that to say that visiting the Kims Il Sung and Jong Il would have been a lot more strange had it not been for my years of Mormon proximity.

er they were lying in state. never hung with them personally. that really would have been something.