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by aaron_oxenrider 2692 days ago
Not saying that any of this was the right response for them to take but many of these people were recently mormon and therefor had the working that the mormon church uses still fresh in their minds.

The mormon church constantly asks its members to tell the missionaries their non-mormon friends names, phone numbers, and addresses so missionaries can visit and try to convert them. While we see things from the technology side, the mormon church has done the sneaker-net version of the same thing for a very long time.