Posted on 09/24/2010 7:52:08 AM PDT by nmh
The Mormon Church has launched a television ad campaign in nine test markets. The ads contain no Bible verses or doctrinal discussions ... just everyday folks talking about their everyday lives. And, oh, by the way ... they practice a faith that nearly half of Americans know little to nothing about.
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The campaign also features an interactive website with a chat room where people can talk with Mormons and watch longer versions of the featured ads. Swofford hopes that they'll be able to present 90 different ads, so viewers will see a different person each time they air.
My first impression is that they're incredibly slick," says Ann Pellegrini, associate professor of religious studies and performance studies and New York University. She says the ads are very similar to those run by the American Ad Council soon after the September 11 attacks. Those spots featured people from various ethnic backgrounds telling of their lives, their hopes and aspirations ... and then the tagline: "And I'm an American."
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Mormon beliefs also became the subject of political angst, as many Evangelicals demonized the Mormon faith of then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Swofford denies suggestions that the new ads and the campaign are designed to lay the groundwork for a Romney campaign in 2012, or to battle moves to undo Proposition 8.
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(It's ALL about a Mitt Romney run in 2010!
Dont be fooled!)
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Here's a sample of one ad:
A cute, smiling, 20-something woman, riding the waves, gushes of her love of life and surfing ...
A black man, an entertainer and musician, raves about fatherhood and family ...
A scruffy skateboarder pontificates on the power and value of individuality ...
These soliloquies are presented in 30-second TV ads, the taglines of which all say ...
"… and I'm a Mormon."
Yes they want you to believe Mormonism is Christian and a clean veneer will encouage you to vote for them. They want you to believe they are "just like you".
Let's stay with a Christian for the next round ... We don't need encouragement to follow more false teachings.
it won’t work
freaks
This is a test to check if we're being observant, right? Do I win?
do they really want to know
ok for starters
multiple wives
changing the wives and the children
belief that they are aliens
belief that they are gods
effing freaks
Can you tell them to stop riding bicycles, white short sleeves shirts and knocking on my door?
Mitt can forget it. And it is not about Mormonism.
Mitt is a East Coast blue blood RINO.
Says more about YOU, to me.
yeah if you’ll tell the jehovah witnesses
believe what you want nordy
While Mormons are trying to pave the way for this, TLC has come up with this:
Who are the Browns?
(TLC show on a polygamist family called Sister Wives)
The Learning Channel (TLC)
Show Sister Wives
9/18/10 | TLC Staff
Who are the Browns?
Tune in for Sister Wives, premiering Sunday, Sept. 26, at 10 PM (ET/PT), and explore the complex daily life of a polygamist family.
Meet husband Kody — along with his three wives: Meri, Janelle and Christine and their combined 13 children — and see how they attempt to navigate life as a “normal” family in a society that shuns their lifestyle. From their unconventional family structure and living arrangements to financial challenges, each half hour episode exposes the inner workings of a polygamist household, revealing the unexpectedly tight-knit and loving relationships between Kody’s wives.
Sister Wives also captures the intense dynamics surrounding a man juggling three wives while attempting to keep it a secret from the outside world — but the general public is not the only challenge that the Brown family unit is facing. The series begins with Kody announcing plans to take on another wife and her three kids — and although expected, the news is met with mixed feelings. Meri, Janelle and Christine were married before starting families so all of the children grew up as siblings. And for sixteen years, the Sister Wives have established their own role within the group and worked together to maintain a cohesive, loving unit. Bringing on a fourth wife could easily disrupt the balance, changing lives forever. The series chronicles the growing pains as Robyn and her kids assimilate into the family and the sister wives work through the insecurities and uncertainties that are inevitable to their chosen way of life.
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/sister-wives/
FR thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2591936/posts
It’s sick:
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And why did Joseph Smith, on May 25, 1844, deny having any wives other than Emma Hale Smith?
Joseph Smith was indicted on charges of polygamy and adultery on May 23, 1844:
“The marriage to the Lawrence sisters became public knowledge when William Law, Joseph’s second counselor in the First Presidency, became alienated from the Prophet. Law, who had known the Lawrence family since their conversion in Canada, chose the marriage of Smith and Maria Lawrence as a test case with which to prosecute Smith for adultery. On May 23 he filed suit against the Mormon leader in Hancock Count Circuit Court, at Carthage, charging that Smith had been living with Maria Lawrence ‘in an open state of adultery’ from October 12, 1843, to the day of the suit.”
“In response, Smith flatly denied polygamy in a speech delivered on May 26: ‘What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can find only one.’ As polygamy was illegal under US law, Smith had little choice but to openly repudiate the practice. But as is often the case with secret policies that are denied publicly, Smith’s credibility would later suffer.”
“Realistically he must have understood that thirty-three or more marriages could not be kept a secret forever, and that when they became known the gulf between his public statements and private practice would come back to haunt him.”
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Yes, ole Smith LIED! What a fine “prophet” he was - LOL!!
http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_illegal.htm
Polygamy was legal in Utah territory for many years...
In fact Brigham Young, the LDS Mormon leader declared that his LDS Mormon god told him that monogamy was “prostitution” and that their jesus and their god the father had been polygamists..
The LDS Mormons still have not rescinded their doctrines which claim men who practice ploygamy become gods like their mormon jesus who was once a man became a god...
and that each “god” got to have his own plaqnet with many “wives” of his own..
The LDS morm ormons believce that when their mormon jesus returns he will reintroduce polygamy as a necessary doctrine..
Until 1890 Utah could not become a state because they would not give up polygamy...
Finally the US government threatened to take away their property and started putting the perpatrators in prison for “unlawful cohabitation”...bigamy...and so the mormons proclaimed that polygamy was over...that the morm on god had changed his mind..
But they kept on “marrying” new wives for decades..
The mormon leader Woodruff who made the 1890 proclamation kept his polygamist wives as did several leaders following him. So much for a new proclamation...
D&C 132 is still on the books but is not “practiced” by the off shoot that moved to Utah any more...
However the fundalmentalist LDS still follow the original teachings of the mormon prophet Joseph Smith...
D&C 132 was a “new and everlasting covenant” and the “first principal”
In other words polygamy was supposed to be the most important tenet of mormonism..
and supposed to last forever..
by Tennessee Nana
Kody, the polygamist and star of the show, claims to be a ““fundamentalist Mormon - like a fundamentalist Catholic or a fundamentalist Christian but NOT like an LDS Mormon”.
Here, listen and see “Kody”, the “dad” identify himself as a fundamental Mormon in teh video, Kody tells all.
TLC Videos: Sister Wives: Kody Tells All
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/sister-wives-kody-tells-all.html
Bingo!
;)
It is their RELIGION that is freaky and WHY they want IMAGE to over shadow that. When you explore their RELIGION, you wonder about them in negative ways.
All you have to do is quiz them on the Bible and they fall apart. They walk away red faced. If they have a church leader to fall back on just quiz him too and he’ll move on embarassed. Don’t let them in your house!
I agree with you. I don’t care that Romney is a Mormon any more than I care about Huckabee’s religion. What bothers me is that both are big-government RINO’s masquerading as conservatives.
I don’t know ... who’d have believe a Communist could be our President? Obama is a freaking Communist.
That's what I understand most Mormon classes are like. They don't discuss the Bible or Joseph Smith's made up scriptures, or even Mormon beliefs. They talk about their everyday lives.
They avoid the Bible. They believe the Bible is corrupt so they REWROTE IT. This is awkward for them so it would make sense to just talk about their everyday lives and their humanness. That would be what you are left with ... .
Well, I see Mormons and Mormonism as two completely separate things, just as I see Christians and Christianity as two separate things.
I’ve actually noticed that some “Mormons” do not really understand Mormonism and, if pushed on their beliefs are not really Mormon at all, but Christian.
Of course, plenty of “Christians” do not really even know what the word means.
My point is that this ad campaign is an exercise in futility because mormons are like everyone else - a diverse lot.
That’s not what was “said” - clearly, the “freaks” was a comment about those that believe in that religion...the people. I just thought FReepers were about that. Simple decency. Disagree with the religion, but don’t call their followers names. Doesn’t make the point very well.
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