In my opinion, this is all about a cheap way of attacking Romney....started by the left and gleefully picked up on by freepers as a way of enhancing their candidate and bringing Mitt down. We have playyed right into the hands of the Democrat playbook....really stupid.
The playbook reads differently than you have stated. It is the Romney camp which tosses the term bigot so easily and seeks to squelch the airing of Momronism peculiarities ... I think, done to prevent opposition to his beliefs by squelching the open ariing of same so that conservative Christians will not prevent him from winning the Republican nomination. But what then? How will the Mitt machine counter the liberal sycophancy for the DNC in media? You perhaps fail to realize that the exposure will come from so many directions and with such precision as to prevent apologetics from Mormons hoping to defend their beliefs. Mitt will be painted as a member of an extremely anti-Chrisitan cult and he will not have the needed votes to win in a close election against the DNC/media darling. FR is a conservative forum allowing the free and continuous posting of Mormonism apologetics to rebutt exposure of the strangeness in mormonism. And the verdict is still out as to whether freepers will tolerate a strange religious bishop for the republican nominee! The complicit liberal media is no so favorable an environment. What then with Mitt and his Mormonism?