The virtue of our women and integrity of our members is very clearly implicitly understood. That outweighs very, very much in my opinion the negative reference. That was something that attracted me to the Church to begin with.

The guy clearly says a lot of things along those lines about pretty much everyone and everything. He actually seemed to be on his nice and complimentary side.

If we hadn’t said anything, most everyone would have forgotten, and of those that had remembered, they probably wouldn’t have cared. We should just leave it at this, and these are my feelings on it also:

We thank Mr. Penn for his observation and unsolicited expression of the chastity and character of our members. Of course, if we were to come out and make references to it people would think we’re being self-righteous, biased, or have an agenda. When someone else voices it, it holds more weight. As for the other comment, we’re not ashamed or ruffled by it (at least shouldn’t be), and actually hold it very dear and enjoy talking about our temples and the promises we make with the Savior and just how much that means to us personally. Just keep it in the back of your mind and whenever its asked in an interested manner that’s respectful of our beliefs and feelings, we’ll talk about what it means to y’all for as long as you’d like. The temple is the house of the Lord and the place we make promises with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and we receive promises. We have ways of continually remembering those promises that are sacred to us. Those promises are sure, and hold more value to us than anything else. Those promises allows us to be a forever family and married couple. Just ask us when you’ve got any questions about why we do what we do.

So, that’s about that. I was expecting like a 15 minute blast when I first heard about this, but having been on that side of the fence and said similiar things, that’s nothing.

Look, seriously, you’re entitled to your beliefs (no matter how daffy and outlandish I may think they are), but everyone else has the right to free speech too. I believe both those things are in your Constitution.

I’m an atheist - but that doesn’t define me - and for me it doesn’t matter what you may personally believe. Unlike Christians of many denominations, I’m not going to come around to your house and try to convince you that your private beliefs (or lack of them) are wrong. If you don’t understand this or you’re a snob and can’t take a joke, then it’s you that has the problem; not Penn, Crunchgear or anyone else.

By the way, my underwear is very comfortable.

Questions? Answers: http://www.mormon.org

Mormons wear funny magic underwear, fact. Bigotry only happens when you an intent to harm in your statements and frankly I saw no attempt to harm, simply humor. Humor that most of you hypocrites above would laugh at if you could get past your own self righteous indignation.

Part of understanding and accepting is humor and questioning, and also being able to take it in stride based on the context. Stop getting upset over this sort of thing when there are plenty of real things to be worked up over. But its like they said, this is typical for Penn and his style of in your face reality, no apologies, no holds barred. Its a breath of fresh air if you ask me.

Nice interview guys, I find it amazing that he has half a terabyte of music, and even more frightened by the fact that I know between myself and my other half we have more then that ourselves -_-’

ha

“Yeah, we were making fun of Mormons and he mentioned he’s from Utah and we were like, “Um, are you Mormon?” And he is.”

Now imagine if you said instead,

“Yeah, we were making fun of Jews and he mentioned he’s from New York and we were like, “Um, are you Jew?” And he is.”

I don’t think Jews would think it was very funny you were making fun of them. Me personally? I don’t take it personally, but the fact that it’s “okay” for you to post such an interview in such a public forum does offend me. Bigotry in America needs to go away.

Anyway, I’m not trying to shift the blame because there’s no blame to be shifted. We were having a conversation and we all happened to agree there was some silly stuff going on with mormons - as we would have if the next guy were catholic, or buddhist, or russian, or whatever. I assure you that if he had chosen any other topic, we would have found something to laugh about, but since he had already broached that subject in his presentation, and the guy coming in next was in fact mormon, we happened to land on mormons as the topic.

You and Matt kept it floating much longer than Penn did. He ONLY replied to YOU starting it, in fact.

Making fun of a religion you know nothing about isn’t classy, its dumb. I’ve heard plenty of mormon jokes that still make me laugh to this day because there was understanding and some respect there.

Why do people have to wait until someone is torching a religious book or a prophet in effigy and wearing KKK clothes before it’s “too far”?