Observation: Since the election, I havent noticed the (I'm a mormon) ads

[NightWatcher]

They were on tv down here in Florida like mad since the summer, but since last week......(crickets)

Hmm, I wonder how much $ the LDS put into the election for their guy.

Oh well, carry on

[Xipe Totec]

1. I wish they would continue

As a community, they have much to contribute to our society.

Personally, I am grateful to them for all their efforts to promote genealogy. Efforts that have aided my own genealogical research tremendously.

As a firm supporter of the first amendment, I welcome their voice into the human chorus.

However much I may disagree with the message.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

2. Yeah, funny how that just stopped. n/t

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3. There were Mormon billboards up all over the place here in Indiana.

You make a good observation in that this campaign to make people more comfortable with mormons seems to have greatly died down all of a sudden.

Yes, I think it was tied to the Presidential campaign. I think mormons thought the religious issue would be a bigger deal than it turned out to be.

Of course it wasn't a big deal because well, Democrats (Obama) are generally more ethical with regard to campaigning than Republicans are. And secondly, most voters who would have been effected by Romney's religion (evangelicals) also vote based on racial and ethnic hate.

With these voters, race will trump religion any day of the week. So Romney was going to have the evangelical vote locked up whether he was mormon or not. Plus, the fact that mormons are almost exclusively white and didn't recognize minorities as full people until 1978, would actually be compelling to evangelicals.


Interestingly, Romney received 78% of the mormon vote. In 2004 Bush got 80%