Another Mormon Joke Falls Flat On Twitter
New York Times Columnist Charles Blow apologized last week for a Mormon Jibe. Tonight, Salon’s Joan Walsh is taking heat. She didn’t respond to an email from BuzzFeed seeking comment. UPDATE: Walsh tweeted that she’s “torn” about her comment, then apologized.
Romney's saving the soul of America - so he doesn't have to baptize us after we're dead.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) February 29, 2012
@joanwalsh y'know, Harry Reid is Mormon too. Don't mock our beliefs because you don't like Romney's politics. Please.
— Chris Estep (@EstepsAmerica) February 29, 2012
Hey, Ms. Edgy @JoanWalsh, I dare you to make a joke about muslims. We'll wait. #tcot #p2
— RB (@RBPundit) February 29, 2012
@BuzzFeedBen @joanwalsh LOL Mormons! They're different from us.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 29, 2012
Liberals hate religion and religious people. Can we finally admit that? @JoanWalsh #p2 #feelings
— stephenkruiser (@stephenkruiser) February 29, 2012
@sistertoldjah @irishspy @joanwalsh tacky as hell;and so openly bigoted it's surprising.
— L W Eaton (@lweatonNC) February 29, 2012
Ever snark obama goddamnamerica religion? RT @joanwalsh: Romney saving the soul of America - so he doesn't have 2baptize us after we're dead
— Barbara McMahon (@southsalem) February 29, 2012
Oh @JoanWalsh you scamp! That Mormon joke was so clever and funny!! Are you gonna joke about Rep.Keith Ellisons faith next?
— Heather (@hboulware) February 29, 2012
Liberals hate religion and religious people. Can we finally admit that? @JoanWalsh #p2 #feelings
— stephenkruiser (@stephenkruiser) February 29, 2012
So @joanwalsh thinks a candidate's religion is an acceptable political topic? #Noted
— Jon G. (@ExJon) February 29, 2012
UPDATE: Walsh responds to Twitter critics.
I'm torn: I honor religious freedom. But Elie Wiesel asked Romney to ask his church to stop baptizing Jews incl Anne Frank and Daniel Pearl
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) February 29, 2012
I'm wondering if President Obama would have been asked about it had Jeremiah Wright baptized dead Holocaust victims.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) February 29, 2012
Also, Romney was the one who said he wanted to save our souls, just another apocalyptic, hysterical attack on the president.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) February 29, 2012
However, I believe in keeping religion out of politics and I don't want to be responsible for everything my Church preaches, so I apologize
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) February 29, 2012
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son_of_grambo a year agoAnyone who mocks religion is okay in my books. If we ever want to be free of this nonsense, we have to ridicule it into extinction.
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Brian H. a year agoHaving a problem with the after death baptisms is a legitimate issue. But laying the blame for it at Romney’s feet isn’t legitimate. It’s akin to blaming a catholic for the church’s ban on gay marriage. That can only be changed by the Pope so what’s the sense of blaming a regular catholic or even a parish priest? It’s the same thing here. Only the president of the Morman Church can change that practice. I just see these kind of comments against Romney’s mormanism as being rather intellectually lazy. There are so many ways to criticize him so when someone has to backslide to use someones religion against them it’s just being lazy and/or ignorant.
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Aaron Murray a year agoHow did this joke fall flat? Because the targets became offended? That’s kind of the point of jokes like this, so I’d say it hit the nail on the head.
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gpdrometer a year ago
when did the internet agree to be offended by jokes about baptizing the dead? because this specific topic has been joked about pretty consistently for the last few days/weeks. and it IS effed up. she shouldn’t have apologized.
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Brian H. a year ago
She is ridiculing Romney because of his religion. A number of you sadly seem to approve. Romney has nothing to do with what official Morman church does. Also the Morman church has taken steps to stop the practice of baptizing holocaust victims because of the protests by people like Elie Wiesel. Someone can criticize the Morman church, there are legitimate criticisms out there but what this so-called journalist did is just ignorant.
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rainbowcrab a year agoIt was funny. Hate that she apologized. If people can’t take their religion being questioned- then maybe their belief’s aren’t as solid as they would like to believe. Besides, she wasn’t dissing the religion- just the phenomenally idiotic baptisms for the dead!
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pigletinboots a year agoI don’t have a problem with her making Mormon jokes; however Romney has nothing to do with what Mormons do in the Dominican Republic so it’s kind of unfair for her to criticize him for it.
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Riff a year agoUgh, religion is totally fair game for critique and ridicule, because it’s not some intrinsic quality like ethnicity and no one’s forcing you to believe it (unless you live in a violently theocratic state). People who can’t take jokes about their religion are probably also the ones who can never have a intelligent discussion to defend it either. Since they don’t have a thoughtful justification, everything is a threat to their faith. And, please, Muslims face much worse than a fucking Twitter joke in post-9/11 USA.
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