"Weird: New Code for Mormon"

Here's a laugh brought to you by:

The Colbert Report.

I don't have cable or an antenna hooked up to my TV. (Is anyone surprised, really?) Someone informed me of this tiny excerpt and it cracked me up. Mostly because if you're Mormon, you've heard it all. Here are just a few "treasures."

"You have horns on your head."

"Mormons are a devil-worshipping cult. You worship the Devil so my mommy said I can't be your friend."

As a 4th grader attending a private Christian school, I didn't know I worshipped the Devil. This was news to me, as in my precious 9 years on the planet the only being I prayed to was my Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ. I had to go home and ask my parents if we worshipped the Devil because I was pretty sure we didn't, but could've been wrong. Now, I think it's funny; then, it broke my tender, young heart.

"You don't smoke, drink, or have sex outside of marriage? What's wrong with you?"

Um, nothing's "wrong" with me. I simply choose to have clean lungs, an uninterrupted memory of last night's events, and a clean bill of reproductive health as far as sexually-transmitted diseases are concerned. Oh, and just to rub it in your face, I totally know how to have fun without sex, drugs, or alcohol....and I remember everything that happened last night. Go ME!

So, you gotta love it when a political pundit gets on national television and declares that "Mormons are weird." Well, duh! We've been calling ourselves "a peculiar people" for years! Get with it. You're behind the times.