Can't sleep, so I'm randomly commenting on old posts.
For me, it's irrelevant whether she's Morman, Catholic, Protestant, whatever... for me it's religion at all that bothers me (I'm stridently atheist). So I'd be as strident against it regardless but maybe that's different for other people... especially in the States maybe.
One-quarter of the US population (http://www.gallup.com/poll/26611/some-americans-reluctant-vote-mormon-72yearold-presidential-candidates.aspx) would not vote for a Mormon for president, even if that person were "generally well-qualified." Depending on the poll, that number went up as high as thirty-seven percent (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562941-1,00.html). In other words, there are some very real prejudices in the US about Mormons. The Gallup poll suggests that the numbers (1/4) are the same now as they were forty years ago, when George Romney was running for office. (Atheists fared far worse, by the way. As for religions, the LA Times poll shows that Islam is the only one that pulls ahead of Mormonism for losing votes.)
Meyer's religion being constantly mentioned makes me uncomfortable, but that's mostly connected to the tone with which it's done. (Not objecting to yours, by the way, though I'd still argue about how much of the Twilight series reflects Meyer's religious beliefs. I have another post I need to write about that for my own LJ, however.)
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For me, it's irrelevant whether she's Morman, Catholic, Protestant, whatever... for me it's religion at all that bothers me (I'm stridently atheist). So I'd be as strident against it regardless but maybe that's different for other people... especially in the States maybe.
One-quarter of the US population (http://www.gallup.com/poll/26611/some-americans-reluctant-vote-mormon-72yearold-presidential-candidates.aspx) would not vote for a Mormon for president, even if that person were "generally well-qualified." Depending on the poll, that number went up as high as thirty-seven percent (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562941-1,00.html). In other words, there are some very real prejudices in the US about Mormons. The Gallup poll suggests that the numbers (1/4) are the same now as they were forty years ago, when George Romney was running for office. (Atheists fared far worse, by the way. As for religions, the LA Times poll shows that Islam is the only one that pulls ahead of Mormonism for losing votes.)
Meyer's religion being constantly mentioned makes me uncomfortable, but that's mostly connected to the tone with which it's done. (Not objecting to yours, by the way, though I'd still argue about how much of the Twilight series reflects Meyer's religious beliefs. I have another post I need to write about that for my own LJ, however.)