Take a deep breath and slow down there...WTF dies Islam has to do with this conversation? So what if Romney has some beliefs that you find unusual? If he’s minding his own business, practicing his faith and not harming anyone in the process, what’s it to you?
The media would destroy a Republican religious Bishop, and stake President that spent the first 32 years of his life teaching the inferiority of blacks, and abortion as his religious doctrine.
#1 you automatically assume no spiritual harm is done...why how "sovereign" of you...be sure to put me on your omniscient pings so I can keep up to date on these things.
#2 Romney tithes on his millions to the Mormon church. The Lds church in their Web sites, curricula, books, sacred books, media repeatedly accuses the Christian church of apostatizing from the faith. They claim Protestants, Catholics & Orthodox are no longer the church -- and haven't been for 1500-1700 years. (That hardly sounds like "minding their own business.")
If you never said a word vs. Protestantism or other Christian denominations...but if you funded groups that made these accusations...putting them into 100+ different languages...ya better believe your wallet "talks."
WT[*] dies [does] Islam has to do with this conversation? So what if Romney has some beliefs that you find unusual?
Well, let's turn the Q around: So what if Muslims have some beliefs that YOU find unusual? [Like martyrdom = 72 virgins awaiting them]
As for what it has to with Islam...I could say to you what you said to me in post #4: attacking what you feel is quirky about ther [Muslim] faith doesn’t seem too much...if at all..above what atheists do when they go after Chrisitianity.
If you apply your own standards above to Islam, you could never critique Muslim beliefs!
Besides, Muslims & Mormons have a lot of overlap...I'll deal with just one for brevity's sake: They both believe all Christians & Christian denominations are unfaithful infidels-apostates who have corrupted the faith. (BTW, this is a belief shared by Harold Kamping, who has predicted "end-times mayhem" starting this weekend)
If you can't critique religious statements, then when Kamping is proved wrong this weekend, nobody could hold him accountable for his "querky" false prophecies.
Once you go out on a limb to defend others' querky beliefs as being something that can't be targeted, 'tis hard for you to redraw your boundaries as applied to religious beliefs across the board.