...if you can't beat them...

Most know how this phrase ends.

...join them...

I feel like this was John Gee's approach as he presented his paper at the Mormon Media Studies Symposium last week. 

He wrote a paper titled "Under the Media's Nose: Overlooked Factors Undermining the Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney". It was well written, well researched. I felt like he really believed in what he was talking about.

He explained how the Evangelical Church came to be and some history concerning them. He then focused on their Counter-Cult Culture. In this culture, they came to believe that Mormons were members of a cult (Dear Readers: They aren't) and then worked to try and disband the religion.

Gee then went on to explain how they got the public to fear Mitt Romney because he was Mormon and that is why he had to drop out of the race.

I do believe that the media was extremely focused on Romney's religion in the campaign. I do agree that it was not fair to question him about aspects of his life that had nothing to do with how he would run a country. I do think it is ridiculous that he had to give a speech about his religion because he couldn't get anything else done. 

However, I do not condone the way that Gee slander those other religions in order to get his point across. Just because people speak poorly of one group does not mean it is fair to speak poorly of them. 

In the future, I'd hope that we wouldn't take an eye for an eye.

With all of Folly's Frivolities,

Allison Goett