I'm sure LDS, Inc. is hatin' life. Once Romney loses the election (and I sure hope he does) the lid will come back down on Panodora's box of Mormon media madness for the foreseeable future.
Cartoonist, David Horsey, is really good. I see he's one up on Benson in the Pulitzer Prize department ;-)
No: should Romney win, they'll feel entitled beyond belief (like, "Mormon god blessed our nation with Pres. Mitt!") and might even start backpedalling on their integrative decisions.
I don't know. His success would bring even more scrutiny than the campaign. While the evangelicals might hold their noses and vote for Romney, I don't imagine them being happy about a Mormon in power. They consider Mormonism a cult. We already know how liberals will feel. I can see the Mormon Church trying to prove it is not weird (good luck with that).
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When I was a kid, we didn't consider ourselves Christians like Catholics and Protestants considered themselves Christians. We bragged about having a different standard to live up to. I think deep down, the hard-line Mormons still feel this way.
Now, three months before the election, they are desperately trying to shove their 10 million weirdnesses into every shoebox, closet shelf, and bank vault they can lay their hands on, just to get it out of plain sight. They weren't doing so this frenetically when Mitt ran in 2008, or even one year ago, for that matter.
I don't see them as trying to mainstream as much as I see them trying to hide their weirdness. If Mitt wins, I can't think of a good explanation for why they would continue trying to do that. After they won Prop. 8 they gloated like Joe Smith conquering another 14-year-old girl. They didn't wipe the smirk off their faces until they fianlly grasped that there was going to be heavy blowback for their sponsorship of Prop. 8, which grasping took about 2 years to accomplish. So I think them trying to mainstream is contrary to their nature.
The way I see it, if Mitt wins their outrageous inferiority complex will kick in big-time. Meaning they will think the end is near, the constitution needs saving, it was the evil side that lost the election, and the mandate is now theirs to FIX EVERYTHING ...in short: "we were right all along and everyone else can just suck it now!"
xyz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LOL! I forgot to consider their persecution > complex issues! They might just feel burned to the > point that they don't gloat - I hadn't thought of > that.
Well, I guess they could gloat in private while being "nice" in public. However, I've never know the Mormon Church to say one thing to members and something different to the public <smirk>. If they were upset enough, I suppose they could include curses on their enemies as part of the temple ceremony, but I suppose that is far-fetched. :p