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MormonSpeak: Notoriously rebellious

Published: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007 12:18 a.m. MST
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I have a confession to make: I Google �Mormon.�

I Google it a lot.

It�s sort of an occupational hazard, I guess. When you do what I do for a living, and you�re constantly on the lookout for stories for and about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you do a lot of things normal people with real, actual lives wouldn�t do.

So you Google �Mormon.�

A lot.

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I run into tons of interesting things while I�m a-Googling. You might say that I�m occasionally agog when I�m a-Googling (on second thought, no, you wouldn�t say that � and I�m sorry that I did). Some of the interesting things that I find are eventually seen here on the Deseret Morning News Online�s LDS Newsline. Some of them aren�t. Lots of Mitt Romney stuff doesn�t make it here (I know, it�s hard to believe that I don�t link to every story ever written about Mitt Romney — but I don�t. Not by a long shot). Lots of overwrought these-guys-aren�t-Christians-and-Joseph-Smith-was-an-Amway-salesman stuff — you know, intolerance posing as information — or misinformation, as the case may be. And a few sports stories from Mormon Trail Junior-Senior High School in Garden Grove, Iowa (go, Saints!).

No, I�m not kidding. They are the mighty Mormon Trail Saints.

Google it. You�ll see.

Every once in a while I run into a bit of information that I�m not really sure how to use. Like the other day I read this story by Ruben V. Nepales of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (what, you don�t normally peruse the Philippine Daily Inquirer Web site looking for LDS-oriented news and information? Remember, I�m a professional Googler — don�t try this at home). Mr. Nepales did an interview with actress Amy Adams, star of the recently released Disney film, �Enchanted.� Here is the paragraph that caught my eye:

�On her short stint as a waitress at Hooters, a restaurant chain known for its sexily-clad servers, Amy, whose family left the Mormon Church, said, �I bet there�s more than one Mormon girl who has worked in Hooters. We�re notoriously rebellious.��

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