but I just saw my first "ooooo I'm a Mormon!" ad and I'm really curious...

What is the goal of those commercials? Am I suppose to suddenly become interested in being a Mormon again because a mom who loves to surf and loves her exciting life ( but she is Mormon!)?

Am I suppose to think "oh hey..... I guess Mormons are not that strange at all! They are just like everyone else!"

Does anyone really care what religion a person is? It isn't a question I ask a person when I first meet them. I look to see if they are a good person and if they treat others with kindness, not what their religion is.

Do other religions do this? Catholics? Baptists? Pentecostals? Quakers? Lutherans ? Methodists? ( on to ad nauseum )

eh... my questions are just as pointless as those commercials. Carry on.

because it means TSCC's PR specialists have determined that a majority of American's view Mormons as not-admirable in some way.

Just think of this delicious idea: in this world of stringent economic times, their bad image is SO AWFUL, they must farm out members to clean the bathrooms in order to generate funds to portray themselves as

a) Fun-loving
b) Admirable
c) Normal
d) Among you, you just wouldn't know it

NOt exactly the gloried crowing of a proud "Peculiar People" like it used to be!

Yep, I'm LOVIN' IT!

Plus- imagine the members struggling to pay tithing who are seeing all this money going towards advertising that Mormons are just like everyone else. When they are not. Hmmmm. Maybe they'll have a special collection for PR payments.... struggling families can really get behind that.

that was my thought... in this economy why are they dumping money into advertising when they could be helping their struggling members.

That would be the noble thing to do; not paying for commercials to prove how normal they are.

Besides, normality is in the eye of the beholder.