I get a daily email from Google News with any story that they find with "Mormon" in it. Well this morning I read a story from the Orange County Register that dealt with the end of the Romney Presidential Campaign and the interesting thing was one of the comments. This comment came from a person that previously lived in Orange County CA and now lives in Idaho. This is what I feel is really happening (sometimes) people think they know things that they do not. Here are the comments. Let me know what YOU think.Link
derrico wrote: I live in a part of the country that is very mormon. Having grown up in Orange County, with many mormon friends, I never saw them as different than any other group of christians. It is a lot different in Idaho. Many non-mormons are very suspicious of mormons and many supposed "Christians" say and do hateful things behind their backs. In my opinion, they are jealous of the social and economic success that many mormons have achieved here and they tend to blame their own failures on some sort of mormon conspiracy. Particularly the born-again/evangelical types. The truth is they are great neighbors, good friends, and give much more to our society than they take. Those of you that call mormonism a "Cult" are haters, in the first degree! You believe that a burning bush talked to a guy, but no way an angel came to Joseph Smith...GIVE ME A BREAK! Our founding fathers decreed that there be no religious test for our leaders, they were right to do that. A persons religion should not have a bearing on their fitness to be president. 2/11/2008 5:00:41 PM
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that is so cool! I like it. Someone has a grip on reality. I loved the photo of the temple...sigh. Good blog!
Well said!
That is interesting. It's nice to see someone stick up for us. However, I think that even though some people are hateful, Mormons are partly to blame. In areas where we are the majority, like in Utah, many of us are insensitive to or standoffish toward those that are not LDS, or even not native Utahn. They didn't come with the negative attitude against us, enough of our people said and did things to turn them off. I have a brother in Idaho, and there is this NoMo group of people. I'm not sure what all of the issues are there. The things that are brought up in this article about Idaho might also be true, but some of it is bound to be the Utah syndrome.
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