Mitt for President or Mormonism?

It’s funny how the strapping a candidate and his religion to the presidency wasn’t so much of an issue in the past.  As long as it was a protestant no one really cared if he was Lutheran, Methodist or any other.  Catholicism got a bigger reaction, I’m told—I wasn’t there!  Possible ties to Islam even took a back seat to the fact that Obama is black.  However, a Mormon for President is a whole other issue.

There has actually been a lot of good press regarding Mormonism lately.  Some people are defending the Christianity of it (in fact, terming it overly Christian—a hyper-Christian church perhaps?), others are defending the fact that Mormons tend to be people of atypically good morals.  Think what you will, Mormons people are human beings that come in a variety of good and bad.  What makes me laugh, though, are people who honestly believe the myths that Mormons have horns.  While most people take it for granted that this is now a cultural joke, there are still those…

The issue of Mormonism came to mind this morning because I have to buy stamps.  Now you get to see how my mind [doesn’t] works.  Strap in.  You see, Mormon missionaries will give you a Book of Mormon for free then call you a few times to see if you’ve read it.  On the other hand the USPS sells stamps for $0.45 each now, or $9 for a full, canonized book.  AND you have to mark every one of your written communiqués with that stamp.  By way of comparison Mormons tend to only quote scripture in their speech, not writing.  Sort of like licking your envelope.

“Club dues” have remained a steady 10% throughout the years of Mormonism.  I can’t say that about my 2011 taxes.  We were somewhere around a fifth, which is twice as much as ten percent, as opposed to a twentieth which sounds bigger because the twenty is twice as big as the ten but is in reality only five percent (meaning per hundred).  Did you follow that?  The irony lies in the fact that the Mormon church can track you down in any continent to make sure you’re doing alright and to offer you help, all with their 10%, done by volunteers.  The Federal government, on the other hand, pays their employees but can’t even keep track of who’s inside its borders.  Maybe the Feds should hire the Mormons out to convert all the illegal immigrants and keep them on church records.  I bet they’d get SSNs a whole lot faster.

However, I don't think religion should influence my vote.  Or politics.  Therefore, I'm still voting for myself.

I also bet I’m going to get an earful about what I wrote today.  And I bet I’m going over budget by about $9 this month.