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I just noticed the "select an ethnicity" option on Mormon.org and it caused me to wonder when ethnicity started being important to Church PR. I seem to remember a Church representative replying to a question about how many black members there were by saying that the Church doesn't keep track of the racial background of members.

kamenraider wrote:I just noticed the "select an ethnicity" option on Mormon.org and it caused me to wonder when ethnicity started being important to Church PR. I seem to remember a Church representative replying to a question about how many black members there were by saying that the Church doesn't keep track of the racial background of members.

You're confusing ethnicity with race.

By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

kamenraider wrote:I just noticed the "select an ethnicity" option on Mormon.org and it caused me to wonder when ethnicity started being important to Church PR. I seem to remember a Church representative replying to a question about how many black members there were by saying that the Church doesn't keep track of the racial background of members.

if they don't keep true with the political beliefs of the 25-55 year old white male they wont have a church. white males make the most money.

Simon Belmont wrote:By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

Sweet. So I put in "lesbian" will they show me a video of two hot chicks going at it?

You're confusing ethnicity with race.

By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

So what's the significance of that? Are we trying to point out that Latter-day Saints are not just people of European ancestry from the Western U.S.? Why should it matter what the ethnic background of a Church member is? As Church members aren't we "no longer strangers and aliens, but ... fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God"?

Simon Belmont wrote:By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

Sweet. I wonder if they have a video of white, heterosexual, middle class, male, that can relate to me on my ethnic level.

Simon Belmont wrote:

kamenraider wrote:I just noticed the "select an ethnicity" option on Mormon.org and it caused me to wonder when ethnicity started being important to Church PR. I seem to remember a Church representative replying to a question about how many black members there were by saying that the Church doesn't keep track of the racial background of members.

You're confusing ethnicity with race.

By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

How pandering, indeed.

kamenraider wrote:

You're confusing ethnicity with race.

By selecting an ethnicity or gender, a visitor can see a video of someone just like them.

So what's the significance of that? Are we trying to point out that Latter-day Saints are not just people of European ancestry from the Western U.S.? Why should it matter what the ethnic background of a Church member is? As Church members aren't we "no longer strangers and aliens, but ... fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God"?

it doesn't matter, no point to argue their nonsense.

the Mormons want to go back to the articles of the confederation and not take out the part about slavery. i read it in the tribune.

hatersinmyward wrote:the Mormons want to go back to the articles of the confederation and not take out the part about slavery. i read it in the tribune.

Read what in the Trib?

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