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“I have concluded after extensive consultations with colorcountry, fastcoyote, and the other anti-Mormons, that the great threat to the Republic represented by Mormons in high office is another revival tour by the Osmonds.”

Which is of course a lie on your part. I have worked with many Mormons here in Las Vegas who have exhibited nepotism in public office (a common trait), exceptional ego problems (like Harry Reid), superstitions (magic underwear, crickets, water, fortune tellers), business backstabbing (through the Bishop network), and other anomalies. All of which are peculiar products of Mormon doctrine and xenophobia.

I started studying the effects of the man-God complex 15 years ago after I was threatened one Christmas with being beaten up by a Temple Mormon business partner. He at one point told me that when he was in the newly built Temple, he was vacuuming some sheepskin covered wall and the roller marks “magically” disappeared. I have other examples of such superstitious mumbo jumbo. I also have examples of what is known here as the “Mormon mafia”, a term I did not invent.

I could go on, and have indeed gone on and on in the past, pointing out the multiple instabilities I’ve found. Now this does not mean every Mormon is evil, I voted for our current Mormon Nevada Governor, and when most of you meet Mormons in casual social situations none of these problems occur. It’s when you get caught up with the powerbrokers in the backroom that things get weird because Mormons have a xenophobic history and must have enforcers to excommunicate and cull apostates from the herd. Everything is peachy, until it isn’t, and that’s when the culling happens.

Now while this is survivable at the local level, imagine the President of the United States having to repeatedly explain whether he is using peep stones to reveal his policy, whether he wears garmies, whether the White Horse Prophecy is coming true, how many Celestial wives he’s going to have when he becomes God, then imagine those clean cut Mormon appointees circling their wagons into a paranoid fortress with enforcers. If that scenario doesn’t give people the willies, what would?

The main antis on FreeRepublic aren’t rubes who just fell off the truck, we all live in either Mormon communities and deal with powerful Mormons, or are ex-Mormons or have family members. Ninety five percent of Freepers have no connection to such goings on and have no clue what shunnings are.

If people think this is bizarre paranoia, they should look up “Blood Atonement” and see what the roots of all this are, it is embedded in Mormon culture. But if people want to throw the dice on the presidency, I guess that’s their business.