Re: OT: Mormons (was Re: Survey)

At 3:13 AM -0600 3/16/03, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Sarah Marie Parker-Allen wrote:
>> Southerners who make fun of coastal types and Mormons
>
>I've never heard anyone make fun of Mormons.  Perhaps that's because
>there aren't that many Mormons around, tho.  :-)  But, the religions
>that I've heard made fun of (in the South) most are fundamentalism (in
>general), Southern Baptists, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
>
>What *are* stereotypes of Mormons?  The only thing that comes to *my*
>mind as stereotypes would be somewhat dull, but very
>straight-and-narrow-path.
Being an insider (I am Mormon myself), I don't really know what the stereotypes are.
But if your response is representative, it makes me proud to be LDS; it's nice
to be known as "straight-and-narrow" (though "dull" kinda hurts :-).

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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