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Church's image survived campaign - Washington Post

I think the end of the Campaign will probably mark the end of the so called "Mormon Moment."

Overall I really expected the priesthood ban to become a big issue at some point. I don't think it ever did. Overall I agree that the church faired pretty well. What say you?

Romney hasn't lost. . . yet, but if he does, I think the Church came out quite well. If he wins, how the Church comes out remains to be seen.

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I totally agree that if Romney wins, the whole question of how the church fares has just begun.

We'll see. It'll probably be a long night, but I'd be totally OK with the church having definitively come out of the Mormon Morment OK by the time I hit the sack.

‘Mormon moment’ ends with a loss — but his religion still won. Salt Lake Tribune.

I wouldn't go as far as to say they "won." They did okay.

Well I guess it's time for Mormonism to fade back into relative obscurity.

Stormy Waters wrote:Church's image survived campaign - Washington Post

I think the end of the Campaign will probably mark the end of the so called "Mormon Moment."

Overall I really expected the priesthood ban to become a big issue at some point. I don't think it ever did. Overall I agree that the church faired pretty well. What say you?

I think the media has been afraid to ask some questions about Romney and his religion, but had he won, then I think they would have spent more time on those questions as people would want to know more about the man who is going to be President. This may not have gone well for the church as members get information they are not aware of.

Themis wrote:I think the media has been afraid to ask some questions about Romney and his religion, but had he won, then I think they would have spent more time on those questions as people would want to know more about the man who is going to be President. This may not have gone well for the church as members get information they are not aware of.

I think the public was bored with what they knew about Mormonism.

I do agree that any presidential success for Romney would have been paid for by losses by LDS Inc.

I bet this is the spin the weeping LDS Romney supporter will take on his loss. God did not want him to win as it would have destroyed LDS Inc.

God is such a smart guy.

Polygamy-Porter wrote:I think the public was bored with what they knew about Mormonism.

I think this is because, as Otterson and Purdy suggested to the Washington Post,

And in the last six months they have noticed a shift in interest from “what Mormons believe,” which they view as problematic and conflict focused, to “what Mormons do,” which they think has given them a chance to showcase their faith’s emphasis on good works and charity.

What Mormons do is boring.

What Mormons believe? Now there's a gold mine of oddities.

Democrats are generally not the intolerant religious nuts that gave Romney a hard time in the past - those come from his own party. The highest ranking Mormon in the U.S. government is a Democrat, and he has not faced many issues as a result of his religion except from members of his own religion. I find it refreshing that Romney was not painted as the Mormon candidate - although it upsets the narrative of some that the U.S. is not ready to elect a Mormon. I believe we are, just not one who failed to present himself as an integrated, trustworthy alternative. Much of that was yielding to the rightest reaches of the party in the primary. Romney was at his best off-the-cuff. His words in the Iowa abortion interview and the 47% speech may have harsh, but his demeanor and personality during those faux-pas were better than the robotic presentation before the public.

Stormy Waters wrote:...
Overall I agree that the church faired pretty well.
What say you?

I'd guess that the next Mormon candidate for high national
office (elected or appointed) will be much less reticent to
inject LDS doctrine/history/worldview into his professions
in public, than was this most recent one.

I say "his," because I honestly cannot imagine a Mormon
woman being elected Governor, or appointed to the
Supreme Court, or serving as ambassador to Israel, etc.

But, I'll go out on a limb and predict that the next major
public figure from Mormondom that we see campaigning
for public advancement, will not be afraid to bear his
testimony of the Living Prophet, the One True Church,
latter day revelation, the Book of Mormon, and perhaps
even of Brigham Young's "Theo-democracy."

Many, many people in modern America are looking for a
temporal religious savior -- a man who will overturn all
those decades of church-state separation -- a contemporary
Jefferson Davis with a clerical collar and a divine ordination.

Mormonism is well-poised to take over the leadership of
the Christianist Dominion movement in the Americas. It
wouldn't surprise me to see numerous Glenn Beck
"approved" public religious champions in the near future.

Time to dust off your Cleon Skousen books, folks...

UD

The actual headline is: "Mormon press office: Church’s image survived the campaign" I think that sums it up.

Kind of a low bar to set.