Good point.
Now please respond then to two questions I have:
In post #12, you said: ...there is no religious test for office in the United States.
If that is the case, why would Obama's Muslim ties be any more relevant than Romney's Mormon commitment?
Q 2: Ozzymandus lamented alleged religious "bigotry" in a previous post. Is it religious "bigotry" to wax negative about Obama's Muslim ties? Or does that get selective treatment on FR?
Permit me to answer the Muslim/Obama question. Keeping in mind that Colofornian cannot approach the topic of Mormonism objectively. Destroying Mormonism is his raison d’etre.
Islam means submit/submission and as a religion/philosophy is wholly incompatible with individual liberty. There isn’t any in Islam. It just isn’t accounted for and when accounted accounts for evil. Islam is diametrically opposed to the idea of America.
None of the Muslim issues swirling about Obama would matter if he acted like someone who likes America. He doesn’t, so his religious beliefs from Islam to Rev. Wright are all critical. It’s the ideas behind his actions.
Mormons on the other hand are a uniquely American religion. They are Restorationist in outlook. They see America as a special place where individual liberty was the precursor for the Restoration of “true Christianity”. They believe that Jesus Christ restored his Church on American soil because of, not in spite of the idea of America and American liberty.
Mormons view the Constitution as a God-inspired document. Muslims don’t and Obama doesn’t. To draw a moral equivalency to Romney/Mormonism and Islam/Liberation Theology/Obama is absurd on its face. The litmus test isn’t in the Constitution, but it is in someone’s actions and beliefs. Romney’s line up with America and Obama’s against.
Colofornian because of your monomania about Mormonism you cannot see that. I don’t expect you to. I expect you to continue to rant and rave about it. The only reason I’m responding is to clarify the issue, not to convince you.