Posted by:
forbiddencokedrinker
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Date: April 12, 2013 11:40AM
So church membership has been on the decline for a while. That has got to hurt. Now when a business, and the church is a business, starts loosing costumers, they often try to look for other markets where they can increase their costumer base.
Now, while Mormonism is in decline, evangelicalism is still relatively going strong. Mormons for years have tried to rebrand themselves, in order to appeal to evangelical converts, but it isn't working.
Enter the gay rights debate. Mormons, Catholics, and evangelicals all hate gays. Or rather, the stupidest, least educated members of all three branches of those religions hate gays, and they are willing to spend good money persecuting them. When a stupid person is willing to spend money, that is called a Mark. So Mormonism can't get the evangelicals to come to them with their money, so why not go to the evangelicals?
The Mormons spend a lot of money creating anti-gay political groups that go out of their way to hide their ties to the church. This is called an investment. Evangelicals, Catholics, and even Mormons pour all kinds of money into these PACs. The Mormon church makes a show of supporting them as well, but what they may really doing, is siphoning money off into their own pockets through various means, legal and other. Now that they have established their street creds, they don't have to spend as much, and can siphon even more back to their pocket books.
Of course this is just a crazy hypothesis. It's not like the church has a history of unethical behavior or anything.