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Mitt - can we stop with the 'I'm a Mormon' tv commercials already. We get it - Mormons are just as screwed up as the rest of us.
I hate to tell you this, but if you want to see those commercials stopped, you'd better contact your local TV stations and complain. Mitt had nothing to do with them. Or maybe you could just go in the other room and grab a beer like you do when other commercials you don't like come on. What are commercials for anyway?
Yeah Mitt has nothing to do with those commercials. They come from the LDS not Mitt Romney. They were designed to combat the idea that Mormons are somehow weird or different.
Now that is just silly, they have been around for ever since i can remember. Mitt gets no credit for this. Problem contact your local News Stations and Cable Networking. They are responsible for what is on tv.
There is commericals for other Religions too, do they drive you crazy, or just the Mormon commercials.
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Unlike the various flavors of mainstream christianity, that at least pay some 'lip service' to keeping money and religion separate, the Mormon doctrine of "prosperity" actually encourages them to be very active in financial and business affairs (including each tithing 10% of their income, and having their own bank, Zions Bank).
So regardless whether they're directly "connected" or not, it is kind of a disturbing "coincidence" that the ambitious LDS church would choose to time their marketing & public relations attempts, just when some of their "own" are seeking positions of significant power in this country. And besides, what other religion engages in marketing & public relations anyway, especially this sophisticated, widespread, and hi-end?!
Unlike the various flavors of mainstream christianity, that at least pay some 'lip service' to keeping money and religion separate, the Mormon doctrine of "prosperity" actually encourages them to be very active in financial and business affairs (including each tithing 10% of their income, and having their own bank, Zions Bank).
So regardless whether they're directly "connected" or not, it is kind of a disturbing "coincidence" that the ambitious LDS church would choose to time their marketing & public relations attempts, just when some of their "own" are seeking positions of significant power in this country. And besides, what other religion engages in marketing & public relations anyway, especially this sophisticated, widespread, and hi-end?!
They've been running these commercials for 20+ years.
"Now the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching a major expansion of its "I'm a Mormon" advertising campaign, which, church officials say, seeks to educate the public and dispel myths about one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.
Beginning this week, a dozen U.S. cities in seven states will be targeted by the Salt Lake City-based church with ads on television, city buses and billboards inviting visitors to the church's website to learn about its beliefs and followers.
While two Republican presidential hopefuls, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, are Mormon, their White House aspirations are coincidental to the church's outreach effort, Hawkins said.
Hawkins said public service announcements by the church date to the 1970s, but the current campaign is taking it to a new level with modern technology."
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