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
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.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
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?!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
!!!!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
dunno if this ever got posted here: extreme mormons. (full segment on the subject of mormon movies here.)
― fit and working again, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link