The new Mormon exodus
Tribune religion writer Peggy Stack reports that Mormon families are fleeing Salt Lake City, the historic heart of the LDS culture, for the suburbs.As Mormons move to the suburbs, downtown Salt Lake City has grown more religiously diverse - and often more attractive to outsiders.The exodus includes many of the church's highest officials. The Daybreak community in the southwest Salt Lake Valley, in particular, is becoming a haven for young LDS families.
In the past few years, Mormons near the city center have prayed for more of their own to move in, while real-estate agents alert potential homebuyers that these areas have the smallest LDS concentration.
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Good riddance!
What is also interesting about Daybreak is that 50% of the residents currently living there came from out-of-state. So, if the area really is 60-80% LDS (which I think is actually a little high), that means it is also attracting alot of LDS people from out of state.
Why is this newsworthy??
Who the hell cares where they
live!!!
Personally,I would like to see
them rounded up and put in a camp
with a fence so high that they
can't climb out!!!!!!
Governor Boggs said they should all be kicked out of the state ...
Fox News has just reported the waves of rats leaving Salt Lake, following "The Mormons" to learn their breeding secrets.......
A neighbor of ours once told my daughter that our neighborhood was "almost perfect" because it was almost all mormon (we messed it up I guess). The quote in this article "we are all mormons..it's great" exhibits an attitude of exclusion and perpetuates feelings by non-mormons that they won't feel comfortable living in some of these areas.
Lovely comments. Stay classy.
This story illustrates what Bill BIshop called "The Big Sort." Check out the following site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Stossel-t.html?pagewanted=all
Mormons are rats, huh. Wow. Interesting.
Fence in the Mormons like the Jews. Wow. Bigotry. This is good stuff, people.
Good Lord, get over yourselves.
Religious bigotry at it's best! Your blog attracts the kindest, classiest, most generous, kind-hearted, tolerant, and courteous people around!
Along with rats running out Mormons, locking them up in fences, maybe you ought to line up their children and shoot them.
Burn their parents, invade their temple and rape and pillage their daughters.
Man, you people are the best society has to offer.
Sheesh.......
Tolerance for many in Salt Lake means tolerating anyone but Mormons.
It is nice to live among people who live and believe as you do, but this whole mormon v non-mormon stuff has got to go. Perhaps Becker can fix it a bit.
I live in a sweet SLC neighborhood with about an even split of Mormons and non-Mormons. Everyone talks to each other. People get along. Some go to church; some don't. I'm not getting all this bloggin-hate, people. Stop it.
I agree with Sugarhouser. I'm sick and tired of the supposed LDS vs Non-LDS conflicts in the local newspaper comments sections. It is a very small minority who feel the need to bash the other side at every opportunity (including LDS members, non-members, conservatives and liberals). I'm a liberal Mormon who has conservative non-Mormon friends. I could care less whether my neighbors are LDS or not. I do care about whether my neighbors are friendly and respectful.
Why do so many people cry about the Mormons? Have they personally caused harm upon you? Of course not - you're just a pessimistic loner looking for a way to spend your day...and attacking a religious community sounds just right. I got an idea...let's destroy their temples and run them out of state. Oh, that's right, it's already been done before by mobs and government officials. As long as you live in Utah, pick up a history book - the valley was developed and sustained by hard-working Mormons. You don't like the city they created for you? Then...why are you still here?
I think that a lot of the resentment that non-Mormons have toward Mormons comes from the way we gentiles are treated. Many of my Mormon neighbors do not speak to me, stare at me, or treat me poorly in other ways. It's not very pleasant to deal with and I don't know where it comes from. I started out trying to be friendly toward these people (I moved here from out of state and I didn't know about the LDS/non-LDS divide), but after this kind of hurtful behavior I am much less inclined to speak to LDS people.
The "we are all mormons..it's great" comment in the article does illustrate the 'I only want to speak to other Mormons' attitude that I have felt for the last 2 years. Mormons get so upset when people are disrespectful toward them because of their religion (logically). Do you people realize that your 'I only want to associate with other Mormons and I'm not going to have a conversation about the weather with a tank top wearing catholic' attitude is just as offensive?
I'm not bashing Mormons, just trying to shed light on the animosity I have developed (and that any human being would develop when treated that way) and how changing an attitude toward a group of people might help rid us of some of the hatred on both sides.
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