http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021067409Oh my.
Ninga (4,076 posts)
Interesting knock on my front door. 2 young men, dressed almost alike, identified themselves as missionaries of the Mormon faith. It took me a few seconds to wrap my mind around what I thought might be going on and I nicely and gently started questioning them. By the way, they both looked like Beaver Cleaver, white shirts, ties and buttoned up tightly.
Their explanation was rooted in innocent "we are just taking time to inform people about the message of the Mormon faith". My questions revealed the following:
Neither one was from this area, nor from this state, Ohio. They landed in Ohio September of 2011 and had been to only small, rural towns, no big blue ones yet. The area I live in is a small red corner in an otherwise big, very blue county.
There are 50 such teams (two young men each team) in Ohio as of this date. They said only about half of the people they met wanted to talk. They don't get paid, they are donating their time as missionaries. When I asked if they were affiliated in any way with the Romney campaign, I detected a slight twitch in the eye of one, and the other took a small step back wards.
They did not answer my question, but restated they "were missionaries helping to inform people about the message of the Mormon faith". And then quickly moved on to offering literature and telling me to visit the Mormon website, and backed off the porch.
I wished them luck, and ran to open my garage so as they walked down the driveway they could see the Obama, and Sherrod Brown stickers plastered all over my car!
The GOP is pulling all the stops out in Ohio. I am not taking anything for granted. This is one tough race.
Oh my again.
WilliamPitt (51,345 posts)
1. Um...
It is a central tenet of the Mormon faith for young people to spend two years away from home spreading the word. We have a few of them living in an apartment down the street, and they're nice as pie.
You know, even though franksolich lives way out in the middle of nowhere, I get Jehovah's Witnesses about three or four times a year--no Mormons yet, though--and being a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can hope to meet, I treat them as if long-lost friends who finally showed up.
I invite them in, but alas once inside they see the authentic Ukrainian icons, the traditional framed picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the crucifix hanging above the furnace thermostat.
Now, there's 122 custom-framed pieces of artwork hanging in both the living room and the dining room (one enters via the dining room), most of which are actual-sized copies of portraits by Hans Holbein, the Greatest Painter Ever (Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, John Fisher, &c., &c., &c.), although there is also a framed chalk-caricature of franksolich, done by a Russian artist from the school of Pedro Picasso, the Atman primitive.
But the visitors don't see any of that stuff; they see only the religious stuff.
While I'm getting them something from the kitchen to drink, they decide they have to leave.
