8: The Mormon Proposition, a film by Reed Cown
(video: Minority Films at YouTube)
As we Californians are aware, those Mormons sure do love to meddle in elections. The Salt Lake Tribune this morning reports that, despite the fact that Reed Cowan, the director of 8: The Mormon Proposition, scored the most votes in a recent online poll for “Mormon of the Year,” the Mormon pollsters, instead, decided to hand the award to the more palatable Senator Harry Reid.
From Peggy Fletcher Stack, writing at The Salt Lake Tribune:
The staff of a popular Mormon blog announced Monday it has chosen embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the 2009 Mormon of the Year, even as several top Republicans called for his resignation.
During the past year, Reid was the “most visible and influential Mormon politician in the world,” Kent Larsen III, organizer of the annual conference at timesandseasons.org, said in a phone interview. “What most made Harry Reid Mormon of the Year was his overall presence in the news and issues that affect peoples lives.”
It appears the Mormons find an accused racist more palatable than, say, a gay-friendly, Emmy Award winning, documentary filmmaker and journalist like Reed Cowan.
As in previous years, the blog’s 12 staff members made the selection, though they did invite readers to offer their own opinions. This year’s contest attracted nearly 2,000 votes, Larsen said, with the top slot going to Reed Cowen, a filmmaker who documented the LDS Church’s involvement in California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. Fox talk show host Glenn Beck and former Utah governor and now U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr. also fared well with readers.
(emphasis: mine)
The phrase “offer their own opinions” is Mormon-speak for what the rest of us call voting. Regular readers are sure to remember back in 2008, when the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints showed up in the Golden State with a money-wagon, fresh from a trip to Fort Knox, and offered their opinion on the existing right of gay and lesbian Californians to marry.
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Over on another Mormon blog — bycommonconsent.com, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert scored the honor of being the “non-Mormon with the biggest impact on Mormonism.” The founder of Californians Against Hate, Fred Karger, who had been neck and neck with — in fact the last time I checked slightly ahead — Colbert, was removed as a candidate from the amateurishly-coded online poll.
Must not upset the LDS Elders or the rest of those meddling Mormons.
