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Mormons feel mis-understood/ discrimiated against
xgsft:
From: http://news.yahoo.com/pew-survey-majority-mormons-lean-republican-half-cite-050156570--abc-news.html
--- Quote --- With Mitt Romney's Mormon faith often under the microscope, a new survey to be released Thursday finds that most Mormons feel they are misunderstood, discriminated against and not accepted by Americans as part of mainstream society.
In a survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, a majority of Mormons cite misperceptions about their faith, discrimination and lack of acceptance as the biggest challenges facing them. Two-thirds, or 68 percent, feel they are not viewed as mainstream by society, while six in 10 say that Americans in general are uninformed about the Mormon faith. Nearly half of those polled, about 46 percent, say there is "a lot" of discrimination against their faith, while 54 percent feel that Mormons' portrayal in television and movies hurts their image.
Evangelical Christians particularly are singled out by Mormons as the group that is unfriendly toward them. In a previous Pew poll, roughly half of evangelical Christians said Mormonism is not a Christian religion, higher than the national average of 32 percent who feel that way.
At the same time, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints express optimism about the future, with 63 percent saying that acceptance of their faith is on the rise.
Amid questions about his faith, one point that Romney has repeatedly made on the campaign trail is that he is a Christian, a sentiment that is echoed in the survey. An overwhelming 97 percent of Mormons describe themselves as Christians.
But the survey finds that a number of Mormon tenets are distinct from other Christian traditions. More than 90 percent of Mormons surveyed said they believe that God and Jesus Christ are separate physical beings, that the Book of Mormon was written by ancient prophets, that the president of their church is a prophet of God, and that families can be bound together eternally in Mormon temple ceremonies.
The survey found that the group is highly religious compared with the general public. Of those surveyed, 82 percent say religion is very important in their lives, compared with 56 percent of the general public.
Politically, Mormons are more conservative compared with the general public, the survey finds. Seventy-four percent of Mormons surveyed say they lean toward the Republican party, and 66 percent describe themselves as conservatives, much higher than the national average of 37 percent. That political ideology is reflected in their views of politicians - 86 percent view Romney favorably and 50 percent hold a positive view of another Mormon candidate, Jon Huntsman. But considerably less, only 22 percent, are supportive of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is also a Mormon.
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xgsft:
I know this article for the most part has to do with the elections, but I find the part about Mormons complaining they are discriminated against interesting. On a personal one-on-one level there are no issues from here. Hell, when I was in Salt Lake we visited their church and listened politely to what they had to say. However, find this article ironic as they are doing the exact same thing to the GLBT community through funding things like prop 8 in California.
This is something that kills me about that group. One would figure that a group whom has felt the bitter sting of persecution *After all, why did they flee to Salt Lake in the first place?* they would be more compassionate to others? I guess they have not learned a damned thing, which is sad really as this is fueling animosity against the religion.
Pollock:
I tire of "groups" and individuals all claiming they are misunderstood and/or discriminated against.
In only a few cases is it likely to be real and in most cases an overestimation for political or other purposes. For the real ones, I feel you, but you're likely to get lumped in with the rest due to the overwhelming numbers.
As for the rest of them, boo-friggin-hoo. Cry me a river and get over the butt hurt already cause I'm tired of hearing about it.
cowgirlTuff:
I live in a town thats mostly mormon or catholic, 3 of my bosses have been mormon And i agree i had alot of misconceptions about them and there religion, My first mormon bosses Darwin and Kevin (brothers) who bought the dairy queen i worked, I found that if you just ask there more then willing to Tell you about there religion Heck me and darwin had a great talk one morning about his religion,the whole Marrying multi wives, there belief they die and go to a Planet. And so forth.. It was really intresting. In fact i am friends with a few of there Kids and never once has there religion caused a problem.. alot of people belive mormons are all gung hoe about converting people and Really they have never once brought up religion unless asked. And the ones i know can laugh about there religion and dont get all butt hurt..I always teased darwin about his 15 kids and wondering How he kept them all stright..:) So all have to ask If they are feeling discriminated aginst becuse of Romney
Donatien Alphonse François:
I thought that the modern LDS church was against polygamous relationships nowadays, so were your friends FLDS church members who still practice it?
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