PR nightmare trifecta

[_Mercury]

Romney put the spotlight on Mormonism. Note I did not say the LDS church but Mormonism.

The PBS special, the Republican primary campaign and now the biggest child custody case in US history.

Is Mormonism out for the count the next 15-25 years?

[_Scottie]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

The one good thing that might come from this is that the media is very attentive to the fact that the compound is in Texas. This might put enough of a distinction that it is not the Utah Mormons.

[_the road to hana]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

How different do they look from what one might see on Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah in late July? Or from how women in the LDS Church dressed routinely within the past few decades? I certainly remember Mormon women dressed just like that in my own lifetime, with similar hairstyles.

[_Mercury]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

How different do they look from what one might see on Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah in late July? Or from how women in the LDS Church dressed routinely within the past few decades? I certainly remember Mormon women dressed just like that in my own lifetime, with similar hairstyles.

Its as silly and stupid as me dressing up as member of the Victorian upperclass except the dress they wear is a uniform of servitude and white slavery.

[_Scottie]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

How different do they look from what one might see on Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah in late July? Or from how women in the LDS Church dressed routinely within the past few decades? I certainly remember Mormon women dressed just like that in my own lifetime, with similar hairstyles.

Umm...well, because it's not poineer day and it's not a celebration...??? This is how they dress on April 20th, 2008. (or any other day of the year, for that matter)

[_the road to hana]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

How different do they look from what one might see on Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah in late July? Or from how women in the LDS Church dressed routinely within the past few decades? I certainly remember Mormon women dressed just like that in my own lifetime, with similar hairstyles.

Umm...well, because it's not poineer day and it's not a celebration...??? This is how they dress on April 20th, 2008. (or any other day of the year, for that matter)

I don't know how old the rest of you are on here, but I'm not that old, and I certainly saw mainstream Mormon women dressing like that on a regular basis for church meetings less than fifty years ago. It might not be the case now, but it certainly was when I was growing up. My mother, my aunts, my great aunts, church leaders and peers who were women all dressed that way.

So I think the FLDS come by that honestly. Sure, it hasn't continued in Mormonism, particularly in recent decades, but it hasn't been that long ago that Mormon women dressed that way.

[_Scottie]

It certainly doesn't help the cause to see FLDS wives, with their hair in braided, looping ponytails, in their pioneer dresses on national TV, while being classified as "Mormons".

How different do they look from what one might see on Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah in late July? Or from how women in the LDS Church dressed routinely within the past few decades? I certainly remember Mormon women dressed just like that in my own lifetime, with similar hairstyles.

Umm...well, because it's not poineer day and it's not a celebration...??? This is how they dress on April 20th, 2008. (or any other day of the year, for that matter)

I don't know how old the rest of you are on here, but I'm not that old, and I certainly saw mainstream Mormon women dressing like that on a regular basis for church meetings less than fifty years ago. It might not be the case now, but it certainly was when I was growing up. My mother, my aunts, my great aunts, church leaders and peers who were women all dressed that way.

So I think the FLDS come by that honestly. Sure, it hasn't continued in Mormonism, particularly in recent decades, but it hasn't been that long ago that Mormon women dressed that way.

Are you saying that there have been isolated sisters that have dressed like that? Well, of course!

But that is the norm in the FLDS community. I don't remember that ever being the norm in the LDS community.

[_the road to hana]

But that is the norm in the FLDS community. I don't remember that ever being the norm in the LDS community.

Was the norm where I grew up, but might not have been where you were, or you might be significantly younger than I am.

[_Mercury]

But that is the norm in the FLDS community. I don't remember that ever being the norm in the LDS community.

Was the norm where I grew up, but might not have been where you were, or you might be significantly younger than I am.

Where did you grow up? Colorado city?

[_Jersey Girl]

Romney put the spotlight on Mormonism. Note I did not say the LDS church but Mormonism.

The PBS special, the Republican primary campaign and now the biggest child custody case in US history.

Is Mormonism out for the count the next 15-25 years?

Are you asking if Mormonism is going to cease in the next 15-25 years? As you know it now, yes.