What's with the Mormon advertisements on DU?

[LAGC]

I mean, don't get me wrong, if they want to help subsidize the board, more power to them, but I'd think there would be riper pastures to proselytze from than a place that almost uniformly opposes the policies and "legacy" of George Dubya Bush, whom the vast majority of Mormons voted for TWICE.

I clicked on the link in the ad, this is where it took me: http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/ask-a-question/chat-live?src=Chat_Church_IM_Chat_300x250_10019_40180

I was thinking about giving them my spam-trap e-mail address and asking their online missionaries a few questions. Namely, why it took the church clear until the 1960s to have its "revelation" about black people being equal to whites (better late than never, right?) and how we can expect to become gods ourselves after we die, if we simply believe (and tithe generously to the church, of course!) Of course, it won't be as fun as watching their heads explode in person when they get deep with the weirder details of their faith, but might at least make for an interesting evening.

Maybe some liberal Mormons (if there are such a thing) can enlighten me here? I know all of them didn't support Bush, that leaves those around Salt Lake City and other urban areas who still vote for Democrats on occasion. Can you tell me what your church is up to, why they're targeting DU? (Hopefully not to try to convert us into God-fearing Republicans...)

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. All praises to Elohim our Heavenly Father and His prophet Joseph Smith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI32XXo_hm0

[katandmoon]

2. FireFox and AdBlock. You'll never see another ad.

[LAGC]

3. Good call.

Doesn't that hurt the web-site's ad revenue though?

[katandmoon]

4. Too bad if it does. I contribute to DU. I'm not about to click on any ads on a web site anyway.

[LAGC]

5. Yeah, I need to re-up my membership.

I noticed I no longer have a donor's star by my name. Guess it expires after so long.

[katandmoon]

6. Contribute to DU, then DL FireFox and get AdBlock. You will be AMAZED by the difference.

[trotsky]

7. Google targeted ads.

Google's servers analyze the words on a page, and serve up a related ad.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

8. It was actually the late 70's that the "revelation" about blacks took place

I'm an ex-mormon, and one of the things I couldn't stand about them was their lockstep voting patterns.