Some of you will like this:
I think such things are helpful. Many people, never having actually (knowingly) met Mormons, assume that we’re something like the Amish.
The Salt Lake City visitors bureau, for example, routinely fields questions from tourists and convention attendees about where to go to “see Mormons.” And there was a wonderful article in a Russian newspaper, some years back, regarding a group of militant vegetarians who were terrorizing the people of Salt Lake City — and the group, the newspaper explained, is the religious sect popularly called “the Mormons.”
Many who think they’ve never met Mormons, and who’re on the lookout for broad-brimmed black hats, bonnets, and carriages full of wives and children when they visit Utah, likely have a Mormon dentist or a Mormon accountant or a Mormon shoe repairman or a Mormon businessman living just down the street.
But they need to understand that we’re not a socially marginal religious minority living in isolated compounds.
Posted from Darmstadt, Germany
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