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~”We live in an age when honest disagreements about docrine are religious bigotry.”~

I reject that. Disagree with me all you want; and I’ll take liberty to disagree with you.

But when you take the fact that I’m LDS and use it to attribute to me characteristics that disqualify me from worthiness to participate as an equal with you in society, that is religious bigotry. This is precisely what many of the anti-Mormons are doing to Romney.

“I assume that Romney is a fine man and cannot look into his heart, but if he is truly a committed Mormon he cannot be a christian.”

That is an incredibly narrow and parochial point of view. Mormons are not Orthodox Christians - but we are Christians. Only one Being has the right to make the judgment that we are not, and you are not Him.

But when you take the fact that I’m LDS and use it to attribute to me characteristics that disqualify me from worthiness to participate as an equal with you in society, that is religious bigotry.

Indeed!!!

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/

  18 My object in going to ^ainquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.

  19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all ^awrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those ^bprofessors were all ^ccorrupt; that: “they ^ddraw near to me with their lips, but their ^ehearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the ^fcommandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the ^gpower thereof.”

  20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself ^alying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, ^bmother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”

The Mormon Church has taken the incredibly narrow and parochial view that it is the one true church and that all other christian creeds and denominations are corrupt. The Mormon Church has persecuted Protestants and Catholics relentlessly for over 150 years.

When you are willing to drop the narrow and parochial view of the LDS, then we may be able to have a dialog. Until then, your indignation means very little.