Glenn Beck’s Rally: A Nice Fit With the Mormons’ “Normality” Ad Campaign

[mike r]

http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/glenn-beck-8217s-rally-a-nice-fit-with-the-mormons-8217-8220normality-8221-ad-campaign/5647

Glenn Beck’s Rally: A Nice Fit With the Mormons’ “Normality” Ad Campaign
By Jim Edwards

Glenn Beck — still suffering (if that’s the right word) from an advertiser boycott of his Fox News Channel show — held his rally in Washington, D.C., at the weekend and asked America to turn back to God. But which God? Most people don’t know that Beck is a Mormon and a few years ago made an infomercial for the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

His rally, which he said “has nothing to do with politics; it has everything to do with God,” comes at the same time as the LDS runs its new ad campaign, promoting how normal Mormons consider themselves to be. Beck also apologized for calling President Obama a racist more than a year ago. Whether that apology will be enough to bring back the more than 100 advertisers who have pledged not to advertise on his show is an open question. (Beck more recently described the Obama adminisration as “like the damn planet of the apes.”)

Most people don’t know that when Beck talks about restoring religion to public life he’s not talking about Christianity. There were once several locations on YouTube featuring videos in which Beck described his mormonism (he joined the church in 1999) but as the screenshot below indicates those have mostly been taken down... Deseret Book is an LDS publishing house that sells “An Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck,” a $19.95 DVD in which Beck talks about being a hopelessly unemployed alcoholic who turned his life around by following the teachings of Joseph Smith...

Almost exactly a year ago I jokingly suggested that Beck’s career arc was following that of Howard Beale, the news anchor in the movie “Network” who goes crazy during a broadcast and starts a messianic cult. Twelve months later, “Network” is looking less like an amusing Hollywood fantasy and more like Beck’s business plan.

[msongs]

1. the bible is full of references to mormons, book of mormon, jesus in America & Joe smith nt

[Dappleganger]

2. Don't forget the magic underwear...

your own personal planet and of course for women, being eternally pregnant and subservient to the same man for all eternity.

:puke:

[Bobbieo]

3. Is there any visible conflict , now, between Mormons and Christians?

Some years ago I mentioned in my weekly column something about the Mormons as being Christians and got the hell chewed out of me by some local residents.

[Dappleganger]

4. Most mainline Protestant churches

teach that Mormonism is a cult because they add to the generally accepted scriptures with the book of Mormon, etc. and also they don't believe in the trinity the same way that Protestants do. I am not sure what the catholic church teaches about mormonism.

[WinkyDink]

5. I assure you the RC Church abominates Mormonism. Hello? "AMERICA"?!

[CanonRay]

6. I know the RC Church won't let Mormons near baptismal record

for genealogical research. They abhor the practice by Mormons of baptising the dead into the Mormon faith. All hocus pocus as far as I'm concerned.