{"id":13768,"date":"2010-12-15T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:02:59","slug":"nominate-the-2010-mormon-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/nominate-the-2010-mormon-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominate the 2010 Mormon of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10920\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Harry_Reid_official_portr\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Harry_Reid_official_portr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Harry_Reid_official_portr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its that time of year again. The media are already reviewing the important news stories of the year, Time will soon select its <em>Person of the Year<\/em> (one Mormon &#8212; Glenn Beck &#8212; has been nominated this year);\u00a0so we should get busy selecting the <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t remember, T&amp;S selected <a title=\"Mitt Romney Mormon of the Year\" href=\"..\/index.php\/2009\/01\/2008-mormon-of-the-year-romney\/\">Mitt Romney<\/a> as the <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em> for 2008, and <a title=\"Times and Seasons 2009 Mormon of the Year: Harry Reid\" href=\"..\/index.php\/2010\/01\/times-and-seasons-2009-mormon-of-the-year-harry-reid\/\">Harry Reid<\/a> for 2009. As in the past, the choice does not mean that the person is a good Mormon or even a good person. This designation is solely about the impact the person has had.<\/p>\n<p>I think the ground rules are basically the same as in the past (suggestions about changes to the rules are welcome &#8211; we try to improve the rules each year):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominees must be Mormon somehow &#8212; nominees must have been baptized and claim to be Mormon.<\/li>\n<li>Nominees must have been living at some point during the year.<\/li>\n<li>The LDS Church First Presidency (including the Prophet) and Quorum  of the Twelve Apostles are not eligible (because they would win every  year, making the selection pointless).<\/li>\n<li>Nominees must have had enough of an impact to have made the news during the year.<\/li>\n<li>Collective nominees (i.e., all those who did x) are welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please do not try to\u00a0 vote YET!! We&#8217;re just calling for nominations at this point. Voting will begin January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>When you nominate someone, please provide a link to  somewhere (such as wikipedia, news stories, etc.) where we can get  further information on them). AND, please give us some rationale for why  you think this person should be <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em>. We will also look at the number of hits on Google News (http:\/\/news.google.com) that each nominee has.<\/p>\n<p>You can make nominations in the comments to this post until New Year&#8217;s Eve. During that time, we will try to post profiles of the major nominees. If you would like to submit your own profile of any nominee not yet profiled, we will consider posting it here. We hope that these profiles will provide additional information on the nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Starting January 1st, visitors to Times &amp;  Seasons will be able to indicate their preference in an online poll. However, the final selection of <em>Mormon of the Year <\/em>will  be made by the permanent bloggers here on Times and Seasons. There is  no prize or award associated with this selection, nor will we make any  formal presentation or even notification to the person or persons  selected.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to seeing the nominees and selection this year. An election  year in the U.S. always leads to new faces in the news, Mormons who have had a great impact or influence on  Mormons and Mormonism during 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my own nominations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Reid\">Harry Reid<\/a> &#8212; As the Senate Majority Leader, it is kind of hard to ignore Reid,  since he is the highest ranking Mormon in government ever. He also  provides a nice antidote to the assumption that Mormons must be  Republicans (to say nothing of the fact that his politics are probably  more in line with the vast majority of Mormons \u2014 when you take into  account those that do not live in the United States). [26,000 results on Google News]<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glenn_Beck\">Glenn Beck<\/a> &#8211; High-profile TV talk show host on Fox News has been perhaps the most controversial TV personality during the past year. [7,580 results on Google News]<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephanie_Meyer\">Stephenie Meyer<\/a> &#8211; Like or hate her books, she is certainly the face of Mormonism among  many people around the world, especially this year, with the first  Twilight movie in theaters and news articles frequently mentioning her  religion. [5,050 results on Google News]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Smart_%28activist%29\">Elizabeth Smart<\/a> &#8211; In the spotlight again because of the trial of her abductor, Smart showed composure and dignity in the national spotlight. [9,100 results on Google News]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Pearce\">Russell Pearce<\/a> &#8212; The Arizona State Senate President-elect made national headlines as the lead sponsor of Arizona&#8217;s anti-illegal immigration bill, SB1070. [1,450 results on Google News]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m certain that I&#8217;ve left out many people who have had a significant  impact. That is why we open the nominations to you, our readers. Please  help us nominate those who have had a significant impact.<\/p>\n<p><small>As of January 1st, we have closed nominations and comments to this post. Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/vote-for-mormon-of-the-year-2010\/\">poll post<\/a> to vote and make further comments.<\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=d7606da4-cafc-40c0-9b16-1c36209a64ba\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its that time of year again. The media are already reviewing the important news stories of the year, Time will soon select its Person of the Year (one Mormon &#8212; Glenn Beck &#8212; has been nominated this year);\u00a0so we should get busy selecting the Mormon of the Year. For those who don&#8217;t remember, T&amp;S selected Mitt Romney as the Mormon of the Year for 2008, and Harry Reid for 2009. As in the past, the choice does not mean that the person is a good Mormon or even a good person. This designation is solely about the impact the person has had. I think the ground rules are basically the same as in the past (suggestions about changes to the rules are welcome &#8211; we try to improve the rules each year): Nominees must be Mormon somehow &#8212; nominees must have been baptized and claim to be Mormon. Nominees must have been living at some point during the year. The LDS Church First Presidency (including the Prophet) and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are not eligible (because they would win every year, making the selection pointless). Nominees must have had enough of an impact to have made the news during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-of-the-year-features"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13919,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/13919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}