Do you know how many Mormons are out there proselytizing about their religion to the general public on a daily basis? gimme a break.
i bet one in five americans don't really know how an internal combustion engine works. i bet a substantial number don't know anything about catholic or mormon doctrine. whether or not such people vote is a fair question, but i don't see any reason to throw away an opportunity to foment OUTRAGE! against romney and the creepy cult from which he sprang. if obama's church were doing something similar, would conservatives seize upon it and make a big stinking deal about it? hell yeah they would.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
why isn't anyone trying to tear David Archuleta's career into shreds over this, I ask
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
there's probably nutters on fox news comments doing exactly what shakey says wont happen, and on other websites. These guys will go loooooow as they can to get their message out.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
here's a piece from SEVEN YEARS AGO detailing evangelicals well-established antipathy towards Mormons
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― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
if obama's church were doing something similar, would conservatives seize upon it and make a big stinking deal about it? hell yeah they would.
damn right
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
was that card ever played against Harry Reid?
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
you guys are missing my central point, that the people who would use this against Romney have already known about this notorious practice of the Mormon church for decades. it is not a new angle to exploit against him. and they have plenty of other weapons in their arsenal that don't have the propensity to backfire like attacking his religion does.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
in Nevada? hell no.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
suspect that conservatives don't wanna go after romney on this soley because he's on their side. only an idiot takes shots at his/her own team. if romney were a democrat, however, i bed we'd be hearing a LOT about it. maybe not from mainstream sources with respectability cred, but definitely from the "fringe", from the designated "not-mainstream" voices.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, the other way around, Mormons hate that Reid is repub: "Several Republican Mormons in Utah have contested his faith because of his politics, such as his statements that the church's backing of California's Proposition 8 wasted resources."
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
not repub, demblurf
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
the general assholes
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
ah, and maybe i'm wrong. maybe it would come across as cheap, underhanded religion-bashing no matter what. was just a thought...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah net or gross income tithe, Romney>?
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
Obama's mother posthumously baptized into LDS Church
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Obama: SECRET MORMON
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
they stole his dead mother.....now he wants her back (liam neeson as b obama)
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
could someone tell me if shakey thinks this is an important news story? thx
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Basically I just want some reporter to ask Romney about if he's wearing magic underwear right now for the ensuing lulz.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Yes, he is.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/14/article-2100995-11BCBB68000005DC-11_468x330.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
Not only Obama's mother, but Simon Wiesenthal's parents as well
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
And we've come circle.
Which usually doesn't happen in LDS since everything is for eternity.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
haha I should have looked at the whole thread
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:148b.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ "mormonad"
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yah Mormonads
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:f2f.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:59.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:1265.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ykeKGjX7mBg/Tw5Qsw25TAI/AAAAAAAAAr4/1oKRH27eXQM/s1600/MormonAd+Winners.jpg
CHOOSE THE MOST MORMON DRESS
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:d79.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
otm about white-boy slap bass, at least
― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUmuisDK11c&feature=player_embedded#!
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT LEATHERBYS
― lil kink (Matt P), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Why would you ignore an ice cream sundae?
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
That's a parfait, get your head in the game!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com/
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
The best thing about that site is how Mormony all the Mormon names are, it's like hanging out in the Tooele cemetery.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
I've already converted several Romneys, just by chance.
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I would happily accept a gay card for my after-life wallet, if it helps me any.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL 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.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link