Weird. This may be the way a lot of Mormons think, but it certainly isn’t a loyal Mormon thing to say it publicly in The New York Times, because the obvious purpose is to undermine Romney and send people stumbling back to Obama. Or to persuade Evangelicals to stay home and not vote.
Obviously this Mormon is much like the rogue Catholics the Times regularly calls on to undermine the Catholic Church. Maybe a MINO instead of a CINO. The difference being that much of what he says is what a lot a Mormons say privately among themselves. But they certainly aren’t supposed to be saying this in public. It’s a violation of Mormon Takiya, if you’ll pardon the borrowed term.
He is only “rogue”, if all TR holders are. TRs are awarded to only about 15% of the most loyal lds.
The author is pretty much expressing the anger that we see every day by FR mormons....his problem seems to be the usual attitude of mormonism that it is so "speshul" in being the "true and living church" that it is sacrilege for anyone to even discuss the sect.
The mormon membership wants everyone to leave them alone while they crow about the prophecy of a mormon on a white horse "saving the Constitution".
Sad.