Now Huckabee has been ridiculed by freepers as well as the MSM because he believes in a literal creation of the universe. People brand him as a fool and a kook because of his beliefs on the creation and the book of Genesis, but nobody is allowed to question Romney on whether or not he believes that Jesus was Satan's spirit brother in the pre-mortal life. To even ask the question is to be branded a bigot and to suggest that someone really ought to answer the question is to be branded an Anti-Mormon Jihadist.
The manner in which the LDS posters have responded to simple questions about their faith and questions about Romney have, quite frankly, made me a bit nervous about supporting him in the General Election.
I'd like to see what Romney would say if someone were to ask him if he would be willing to appoint an EX-Mormon to some position of authority in his aministration. I suspect that question would be met with the same kind of stonewalling and whining that we see with Huckabee's question.
There is a double standard. Everyone's religious beliefs are fair game except Romney's. Many of us touted Bush because we believed he was a Born Again Christian. He has taken a lot of heat from the mainstream media about his prayer and bible meetings in the white house. The religion of a candidate has always been fair game in the political realm. To give Romney a pass because his religion is unique or bizarre is blatant hypocrisy. It is an issue and we all need to deal with it.
“The manner in which the LDS posters have responded to simple questions about their faith and questions about Romney have, quite frankly, made me a bit nervous about supporting him in the General Election.”
There you go. I’ve had the crap scared out of me numerous times in real life here in Vegas because of that same mentality. If you look up Blood Atonement, you will see where it comes from (though obviously they aren’t killing people like the good old days), and why there is a shadow world of enforcers and the shunned that most people never see. But yeah, once you see that up close, you might understand why I just can’t bring myself to vote for a Mormon at the presidential level. And why the term bigot doesn’t hold much water.
I don't even care about that. I'm willing to grant, for the sake of this discussion, that asking Mitt about Mormon distinctives is "illegitimate".
That doesn't matter. If Mitt is the nominee, they aren't even going to ASK him the questions.
What they ARE going to do, week after week, is teach America, so everybody knows, about the seer stones, the fleshly God, Reformed Egyptian, the wives, Kirtland, all of it.
This isn't bigotry, and it isn't even really an attack.
By November, 2008, though, the poll answer to "would you vote for a Mormon" will mean something, because by then every voter in America will know everything there is to know about the LDS, whereas now they know little or nothing.