What we are saying to our brothers and sisters in Christ who share our common values of faith in God and family, the Mormons, is you folks are the n-word of the Republican Party as African–Americans are to the Democrat Party.
It’s just fine that you Mormons vote Republican by nearly a 9-to-1 margin (2000 election data), dozens of you have served as Governors, Senators, Representatives, Cabinet members (one serving there currently) and Ambassadors (Reagan had more than 15 Mormons in his administration alone), but don’t you dare think any of your “cult” will ever be elected President of the U.S.A. Never gonna happen.
That message, my fellow FReeper, is one of the most disgusting and un-American things imaginable. It is offensive in the extreme. No Republican should ever associate himself with such vile, religious bigotry (not saying that you do Rome2000). We should stand ready to oppose that type of thinking at every opportunity.
For the record, I'm not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), but I lived among them for 16 years while growing up in Utah. I admire and respect them more than any other people in this nation.
I'm not LDS either (Lutheran, FWIW). However, being on the West Coast, I and most of America owes a huge debt, simply from the matter of history (sans religion), to the LDS church for, essentially, finishing the establishment of the West Coast by virtue of capitalizing the Central Pacific Rail.
Regardless of one's theology, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is gigantic in American history. I would smear them as soon as I'd smear the RCC. As an added bonus, for those who fear, the LDS Church theology is the only canonical tradition based in North America.
Well said.
Whould you please share your thoughts on the FR demonizing of Rudy?