Mormons don't want to be called Mormons anymore

I've always called them "Hormones."

Fuck 'em. I'll call them what I like.

Will they be called Osmonds now? Or Romneys?

Doesn't matter anyway, they're all nutjobs.

Fuck them, I call them stupid cunts

We would just call them weirdos..

Just remove the "m." Morons.

"Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" just trips off the tongue, and isn't unwieldy at all! /s

I'll be damned if I will refer to anyone as a "Latter-day Saint." Talk about having a high opinion of oneself.

Slattern day taint?

Temple of stale crackers?

How about crackpots and gulls?

They've wanted to be called Latter Day Saints for a long time.

Leftover fakes?

Most of the men are called johns...

How about the Holy Undies or better yet, Shitheads. r1 and r2 have been the best so far.

I’m old. I no longer care what groups “want” to be called anymore. No one can seem to agree anyhow. I just call everyone assholes now. Much easier.

r14 wins! I'm old too, baby, and glad of it!

Beijing is still Peking to me and mumbai is still Bombay, Myanmar is still Burma. Just settle on one good name, otherwise shut the fuck up about it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So now it’s the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Tabernacle Choir”?

“The Book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”?

NEW MARKETING PLOY

They keep wanting to be Christians and the mainstream Christians, the Baptists in particular are like "fuck no. Jews and Muslims are closer to being Christians than you are, you space alien worshiping freaks!!!"

They see themselves as the ONLY legitimate church (Christian or otherwise), so it's no wonder they want to be called "The Church."

the problem is that no one is going to call them that outside of their own religion, and since they have to explain themselves to others (they want to integrate with the rest of American society), no one outside of Mormonism is ever going to refer to them as "the Church" or 'The Church of Jesus Christ." The best they can hope for is LDS.

Presumably, their 'Newsroom Style Guide' applies the church's owned (through their for-profit Bonneville division) newspaper, radio & TV properties. The real world uses the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, which says:

[quote]Mormon Church; acceptable in all references for [italic]Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints[/italic]...

r20, maybe the best they could hope for should be LSD!--that might fix 'em; Utah would never be the same again.

Aren't mormons the ones who think that at some point they go a specific planet?

But for the sake of simplicity, r5 wins the thread: another vote for calling them Morons.

I'd say it's because they want to emphasize that they believe the New Testament about Jesus. However, that doesn't do much to ameliorate the fact that the Book of Mormon is pagan for most Christians.

How about Jesus Jammers?

Magic Underwearers?

I want to be called "Loretta."

Down low dick lickers?

Cult of Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith must have been hot stuff judging from his pictures, despite his being a con man. Those missionary boys his cult sends out are usually eye candy too. "Hon, let's get down on our knees and pray for guidance and, oh, by the way, while you are down there, would you mind, uh......."

Indeed, R21. As if that long-ass name would fit in a headline! They can suck it.

[quote]Mormons don't want to be called Mormons anymore

And their preferred pronouns are he, he, he

I hope you all are aware that the Morm-er, uh, "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" has baptized Adolf Hitler in his afterlife as a "LDS". I understand that he now has dropped the name Adolf and has taken the name Brigham, yes, Brigham Hitler and that he wants more women sealed to him in marriage, preferably those who are into urinating on their spouses (sound like anyone we know on this side of life in a leadership position?).

Are they losing a lot of members? There’s a whole subReddit about ex-Mormons. They all sound pretty pissed off and disillusioned.

With their traditionally large families, the pflag chapters in Utah are substantial. Parents are frankly getting sick of the idea that their children are somehow considered defective.

A rose by any other name still smells like a cult.

Mormon refers to things like rugs, not people.

R32 - No worries. They also baptized Anne Frank.

R21 - Not unusual for an organization to provide a style guide to media. Doesn't mead the media has to use it. For example GLAAD has one.

I’ll just keep calling them “Marmots.”

All I need to know about the Mormons I learned from South Park.