They're everywhere!

[bladespark]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/in-new-tv-ad-campaign-mormons-pitch-message-to-middle-america

Hi!

I'm a newly-wed of 32 who loves fuzzy critters and cute things, but hates pink and fluffy girly things. I don't wear makeup, but I do wear dresses. And kilts and guy's shirts. I steal my husband's shirts sometimes. My most precious possession (if you don't count the cats, which I don't, they own me not the other way around) is my pair of New Rock biker boots with flames on them. I love designing and sewing interesting plushes and costumes, and have managed to turn it into a career. I collect pokemon. I have two cats, three snakes, and one jackal. That's my husband, his "fursona" is a jackal. Mine changes depending on my mood. I'm not too serious about the furry thing, mostly it's the above stuff about liking plushes, costumes, and fuzzy critters. I read books like a maniac and own *almost* every book Mercedes Lackey has ever written. (And that's a LOT of books!)

Oh yeah, and I'm a Mormon. :D



(And if the intended message is "We Mormons aren't so weird after all," I'm not sure I've succeeded there, I'm a total weirdo, but the weird hasn't got much to do with the religion.)

Posting this mostly because the whole "Mormons are normal" campaign kind of makes me giggle, but also because I suspect some of you might actually not know! I don't tend to drag religion into everything, but I'm not ashamed of it or afraid to discuss it either. :) Just do be civil if you have something negative to say, please.

Comments

[chiscringle.livejournal.com]

In another century, Mormons will be mainstream, Scientologists will be where the Mormons are now and something else will take the S's place, so they may as well be patient. It's all a matter of survival time. Except for Unificationalists. I have a branch of my family in that, and I don't think they'll ever manage to become totally mainstream.
The only two things I know about Mormons is that they have a really awesome choir and at some point supported polygamy, which was only really banned because it was too easy to screw up the tax code, and a few members of the government at the time were right-wing religious nuts, as opposed to now, where they may soon be in the majority again. Someone really needs to go back to 1908 and rig the elections for a few years.

I'm an atheist. We can do anything. Well, almost anything. Kind of hard for us to get excommunicated.

[web-dragon.livejournal.com]

Whats wrong with being weird? I'm called weird at least once a day. I rather like being different from most people out there.

[meghers.livejournal.com]

Wait. You're a mormon? *BROFIVE*
LOL SO AM I. :"D

<3 It's a small world, bb.

[silveradept]

As with most religious things, people find out that the people in the institutions aren't usually the monsters the institutions themselves turn out to be.

Plus, everyone has their weird. We wouldn't be half as fun as we are without it. And you're probably further along than most because you admit to and celebrate your weird, instead of hiding it all away in the closet so that it can burst out and do skeletal jigs later on.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Nothing wrong with being weird at all.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Awesome! :D

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

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You know, you just pretty much said that Mormonism as an institution is a monster.

I really hope that was an unintentional bad phrasing on your part.

[silveradept]

Entirely bad phrasing. Apologies.

I think the phrase I was looking for was "the monsters the institutions are perceived to be", which is more accurate and correct to what I was thinking at the time, drawing a line between "the people you know" and "what that institution supposedly is."

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

"Hey--I'm a Libra who's a quarter of a century old and who's been married for five years. I wear outrageous outfits with bright colors and patterns that don't traditionally match. I'm originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico but I'm also a proud resident of Salem, Oregon.

I'm a writer, a dancer, a choir singer, and a collager. I love trees. I have very long strawberry blonde hair, I'm legally blind, and hearing-impaired. I'm a stay-at-home mom who devours books and blogs.

And I'm a Mormon. Whew."