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Look, I've obviously hit a nerve, and you don't really know what I've studied or haven't studied. Holding Mormonism up to a light for the totality of it including undergarments, becoming god like beings someday on other planets (and I realize I'm picking and choosing things here) and the secretivness of the religion's inner workings - doesn't measure up to the Word of God. And Joseph Smith's version later doesn't hold any more weight than Mohammed's "prophecies"

There are a lot of fine upstanding people in the Mormon church - I hear there are in Islam too. I have the RIGHT to hold candidates up to my beliefs and vote acordingly. THE difference between that and Islam is that I don't want to kill someone who believes differently, I just choose to not vote for him/her.

How backwards can you get. You don't understand a thing about the Mormon church. What you think you know is what someone else has told you, mostly agendized lies to keep hold of a congregation and thus a paycheck, and I sincerely doubt you've EVER gone to the source for information, or even an unbiased non-Mormon source like Jan Schipps for instance, a leading non-Mormon academic source on the LDS Church who points out the positive and a few of the negatives as well. But what you no doubt have gone to are the Michael Moore types like the Godmakers and other demagogues who fill their movies and books with outrageous, Michael Moore-like lies and people like you don't bother to look for a counterveiling viewpoint. Frankly, the sloppiness and deceit by the people who write those screeds and make those vile films that have been condemned by the National Council of Christians and Jews are just Michael Moores wearing a religious mantle.

I'm sorry, but you've fallen prey to deceit and believe it's scholarly research. I've been on both sides of this debate and I know the lies and deception spread by those who have an axe to grind against the LDS Church. I've seen the falsehoods of their claims first hand, so that is why I am entirely incredulous when you claim you've done some clear-headed and fair minded review of the LDS church. Your mean-spirited post that mocks what Mormons find sacred, and that you simply do not understand, makes that all too clear.

I have nothing more to say to someone with such backwards, and Islamic fundamentalist-like, views someone so stunted as to dismiss an otherwise worthy candidate based on religion. Just like the jihadists, you people use religion to divide, not unite, and to create anger and bitterness, not love and compassion as Jesus Christ taught.