They lost me with the first sentence: No one in American life is more committed to religious liberty for all than the Latter-day Saints.
Throughout their history, the Mormons have been anything but tolerant. For example, they have killed dozens of soldiers and guardsmen in the four named wars they fought with non-LDS gentiles. They murdered hundreds of their own and mutilated thousands more through the doctrine of blood atonement. They fought six civil wars among themselves, and dozens of wars with American Indians. They carried out the largest peacetime mass murder of gentiles prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. They were largely responsible for the worst slaughter of Indians in U.S. history at the Bear River Massacre. Their treatment of women as bond servants through polygamy, their abuse of children in plural marriages, and their persecution of dark and loathsome non-whites is appalling.
They also lost me on the last sentence: We don’t doubt our Mormon friends’ good intentions, but we don’t agree that this is the best way to achieve these goals.
If their goal is to maximize church cash flow through maintaining a positive public relations image in the mainstream media in order to attract new tithe paying converts, then the LDS Church is acting brilliantly.