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SALT LAKE CITY — A Mormon reporter who spent the last year covering the campaign of Mitt Romney is detailing his experience - and the gradual change in perceptions about his faith since the campaign began.

BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins writes Romney's religion was "too awkward to discuss in an open forum" at the start of the 2012 campaign, when it was the topic of whispered discussions and private e-mail chains among the non-Mormon press corps.

Among the questions non-LDS reporters were asking: "Does Romney really believe he will get his own planet when he dies? Does he baptize dead Jews in his temples?"

He doesn't believe those are questions that would be asked the next time a Mormon runs for president.

Coppins told KSL Newsradio he believes the so-called "Mormon moment" is far from over - that the impact of Romney's campaign could well be that what was once "weird" to those who are unfamiliar with the LDS faith is now accepted as part of the mainstream.

I like Mormons, but I think most people still see the LDS as a fringe and somewhat strange religion. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

It would be interesting to get the impressions of the non-mormon reporters who covered Romney.

Is this more evidence for Aristotle Smith's idea that Romney lost like a Mormon?

"I didn't baptize anyone, but some reap the harvest, and others plant the seeds."

Bob Loblaw wrote:I like Mormons, but I think most people still see the LDS as a fringe and somewhat strange religion. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Yes. Mormons will be tolerated just like the Amish.

Polygamy-Porter wrote:

Bob Loblaw wrote:I like Mormons, but I think most people still see the LDS as a fringe and somewhat strange religion. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Yes. Mormons will be tolerated just like the Amish.

When, and if they wear the proper signs:
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... tation.jpg[/img]
[#img] http://futurity.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... /amish.jpg[/img]

As did the jews in a certain time slice:
[#img] http://www.history.com/images/media/sli ... couple.jpg[/img]
[#img] http://www.rhodesjewishmuseum.org/wp-co ... h-star.jpg[/img]
... with another sign...
[#img] http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9 ... Q1Tsv7pZ8w[/img]

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Yes, I have the images. Or at least the links to them. Or at least the URL feature.

You should do nothing, but open five more tabs, and look at the pictures one by one without the text pointing to them. Then close all additional tabs. Then assemble my whole message in Your brain. It is useful, isn't it?

Bob Loblaw wrote:I like Mormons, but I think most people still see the LDS as a fringe and somewhat strange religion. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

I like them to, but as information is more available, and a increasingly secular society, they will remain being seen as good people with weird beliefs.

Themis wrote:I like them to, but as information is more available, and a increasingly secular society, they will remain being seen as good people with weird beliefs.

+1

Individual Mormons, ok, most are likeable.

Institution of Mormonism, is kind of like that review of Guy Fieri's New restaurant in New York City.