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In my years of posting on the RF, I doubt I have seen a more sanctimonious batch of posts that those posted by dalight who has consistently lectured others for bigotry while employing total bigotry in doing so.

I have been mostly ignoring crap on this thread, and somehow this got cleared with clearing the old pings.

Grey, you are also a credible poster, you are welcome to your opinions and I don't care what names you call me.. mostly you are sane, present your arguments based on fact and frankly, your history is full of interesting and worthwhile posts. To some point, I have taken a hard core Jewish approach to get these folks to see that viewpoint matters. We can do our thing here, have a strident and powerful viewpoint and leave room for others around here. However, when viewpoint drifts into what we in the Jewish faith call Lashon Hara, the wicked tongue.. the sin is on you.

It normally is a fine line and posters around here delight in dancing around it. Some of your friends here don't have a clue where that line is.

As for any bigoted statements you might claim I have made, I am happy to consider your examples and defend them or accept that I was wrong. Just remember that, Judaism and Christianity share much, but some things we will never agree on. Defending these differences is not bigotry, it is just the fault lines. Bigotry is not the same as having certainty of one's faith. Bigotry is selling that Romney or Beck are evil people because of what Joseph Smith did.

It is important that people understand the nature of Mormonism, as facts, as interpreted against the holdings of mainstream Christianity, or Judaism, or what ever. I look at your posts and see someone doing that. Nana's posts do not. Your analysis of Mormon dogma and self aggrandizing and how this relates to folks like Beck, Huntsman and Romney is good stuff. Where it in this thread as related to what drives Beck, it would be of note, Unfortunately we just get to suck on asinine charges like "Rapist", and other crap spewed by these lesser lights.

Unfortunately we just get to suck on asinine charges like "Rapist", and other crap spewed by these lesser lights.

I suppose it hasn't ocurred to you that instead of ignoring the posts that inflame you and moving on, or injecting a reasonable point of debate to the posts by whom you describe as "lesser lights"...{pretty condescending description, BTW} you have Instead attacked by name and accused FReepers of libel { SEE: The Law: Libel Liability: Test for Public Figures}. Beck and Mitt ARE public figures.

Your attempt at trying to disprove the label of Joseph Smith as "rapist" was pitable. If you were to really look into his history, you would find he used coercion and threats against any woman who denied him sex.

You have attempted to "school" long-time FReepers on not only the rules of the forum but the wishes of the forum owner and by doing so have provided everyone reading this thread with a portrait of yourself as one who is indulging in "self aggrandizement".

You state: "I have been mostly ignoring crap on this thread"...and I state that a good deal of the "crap" has come from YOUR keyboard.

Whether it was your intention to paint yourself as a defender of Romney on a forum where the owner has made it plain that there will BE no defense of Romney, you have done so.

The Flying Inmans have done battle on FR against the religion of the Romneys, the Becks and now the Huntsmans for several years and faced opponents who have attempted to see us banned, and who have threatened FR with the loss of their donations if that did not succeed. We have been called Nazis, jihadists, arsonists, and of course your favorite, "bigots" innumerable times. This is nothing new to us.

You really have brought nothing to the conversation except an unusually vivid picture of someone who lets his alligator mouth overrun his hummingbird hind end.