The persecution I experienced caused me to study in great detail the history, people, behavior and beliefs of an organization -- calling itself a "church" -- that could seemingly happily inflict so much pain. This will be my only post on this topic, but:
I would never vote for a Mormon Presidential candidate. I know far too much about the organization, its methods and aims to ever entrust a Mormon with that kind of power. Your Catholic analogy doesn't hold Holy water. Mormons are a very different kind of phenomenon, as America will learn if it makes what I consider the mistake of electing Romney.
[Saundra, I was a non-Mormon raised in a 90% Mormon community. I was the only non-Mormon in my elementary school. I know first hand what bigotry is — and I wasn’t the bigot.
The persecution I experienced caused me to study in great detail the history, people, behavior and beliefs of an organization — calling itself a “church” — that could seemingly happily inflict so much pain. This will be my only post on this topic, but:
I would never vote for a Mormon Presidential candidate. I know far too much about the organization, its methods and aims to ever entrust a Mormon with that kind of power. Your Catholic analogy doesn’t hold Holy water. Mormons are a very different kind of phenomenon, as America will learn if it makes what I consider the mistake of electing Romney.]
Well said Bernard. Unless you live near Mormon’s and have seen how they absolutely crush the lives of dissenters, you just don’t understand what a danger Romney is. It isn’t Romney himself, it is the clan and doctrines that comes with him as night follows day.
I got axe handled a number of times by crooked Mormon business partners and two girl friends before I did like you, studied up on the religion to protect myself. Most of the people who are looking the other way on this thread only know a couple Mormon neighbors who have clean homes and nice kids, they haven’t seen the underbelly. Harry Reid is one example, but not the only one I’ve come across.
Mormon bigotry is every bit as intense as anything on the opposite side.
I’m sorry for your experience. I believe many in my family feel as you do and I did for a while myself. While I attend the LDS church, the people I associate with in my daily life are not of my faith. I appreciate them for putting up with me and love them for it — I learn much from them and thank God they’re in my life.