re: #64 CuriousLurker

OT: I’ve been meaning to ask you something, if you don’t mind. How did you feel about the series Big Love, especially since it portrayed polygyny which I understand has been abolished in the mainstream for a long time? Did that make it super annoying for you, or did you consider it an okay thing since it was at least showing Mormons fairly typical families (plural wives & artistic license aside)?

I’ve never watched it, and we don’t consider them Mormons. After it was abolished, practicing polygamy will get you kicked out of the church.

It’s mildly annoying, because people think those are what mainstream Mormons are like.

I’m not sure there has ever been a media depiction of a normal, garden-variety LDS family. Why? Because we’re really, really boring.

Imagine a normal family with no alcohol, coffee, tea, smoking, or R-rated movies. Or swearing. That’s about it. Lots of ice cream, though. Mormons, in general, love ice cream.