I know we haven't talked about this in a while, but I read something the other day and I want to know if it's normal.
I'm reading this "true crime" book titled Murder in the Heartland. It's about the nutjob woman who killed a pregnant woman, cut the baby out of the dead woman's womb and then tried to pass the baby off as her own.
Anyway, when this woman was still with her first husband, they moved to Arkansas for a while because he got a job there, and the town where they lived had a lot of Mormons. Not long after they moved in some Mormons went to their house to talk about the faith. The couple thought about it and decided to convert to Mormonism.
Now, here's what wierds me out - Mormons are not supposed to use alcohol, nicotine or caffeine. They couldn't stop the husband from smoking cigarettes, but in an attempt to make sure they didn't have any caffeine, the Mormons took the coffee maker from their home. I am not exaggerating, that is what the book says.
Then, Mormons started dropping by the house unannounced to "check up on them", as if they were a couple of teenagers left alone at Mom & Dad's house with the liquor cabinet. One day one of the Mormon brothers said, "I think I smell coffee." The husband said, "I don't see how, we haven't had any coffee." So the Mormon guy went into their kitchen and looked for signs that someone had brought coffee into the house.
WTF? Is this a religion or a facist state? Fellow member of my church or not, any guy who went looking through my house like that would find himself outside of my house very quickly.
(Ironically, the wife was addicted to Pepsi anyway but had it stashed well enough that the Mormon police never found it. >) )