Survey: White Evangelicals Have Least Positive View of Mormons

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Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:31 am Agree: 6   Disagree: 1

Why would Evangelicals have a negative view of Mormons?

Perhaps the negative view results from all the Mormons who behave as follows:

Mormons put undue emphasis on building and supporting the family.
Mormons do too much genealogical research, and make too many genealogical resources available for free to the general public.
Mormons contribute too much money and other resources to domestic and international humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
Mormons do too much volunteer work.
Mormons emphasize education too much, and are too educated.
Mormons know too much about the history of their church.
Mormons do not imbibe in intoxicating drink enough.
Mormons unduly emphasize refraining from addictive substances.
Mormons place too much support in the oldest and largest women's organization in the world.
Mormons are too orderly in their worship services.
Mormons emphasize, nay require, their members to find out for themselves through study, pondering and prayer, whether the religion is true -- and finding out for yourself is wrong.
Mormons encourage their high-schoolers to do too much study of the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants via daily class work.
Mormons tithe too much.
Mormons put too much pressure on their men to be good husbands and fathers, and too much pressure on their women to be a good wives and mothers.
Mormons dress too modestly.
Mormons memorize too much scripture.
Mormons contributed too much to the United States expansion into the American West during the 19th century.
Mormons place too much hardship on their young men by requiring them to spend two years of their youth preaching the gospel and living a strict lifestyle and doing community volunteer work, instead of partying at college.
Mormon-owned BYU is a bad place because it is regularly judged the college where the students are the most stone-cold sober.
Mormons put too much emphasis on refraining from body piercing and tattooing.
Mormons don't use enough profanity.
Mormons are too strict about sexual morals.
Mormons don't respect teenagers because they don't let their teenagers date until their 16 years old and then they expect their teenagers to go on group dates until they are 18 years old.
Mormons put too much pressure on their members because they require their members to be accountable for their own actions based on a belief of free-agency.
Mormons dance too much.
Mormons go to church too much on Sundays.
Mormons restrict family life too much because they require marriage to be between a man and a woman.
Mormons are mean because they counsel their members to avoid inappropriate media content.
Cancer rates among Mormons are too low.
Mormons smile way too much and are way to friendly.

All this bizarre behavior by Mormons must surely lead to negative views about them.