Amazing. After listening to Christian Conservatives bitch for decades about the bigotry expressed towards them by the Republican Establishment based wholly on their religious values to now watch so called “Christian” Conservatives turn right around an express the same reason the Republican Establishement used against them, towards Romney.
I’m a Jew from NY and have no problem with a mormon, like Senator Hatch or an evangelical like Huckabee AS LONG AS THEY ARE PRO-LIFE
Some of the "best stuff" you can lay on the Mormons (theologically speaking) comes from guys who were actually booted out, or left in the early days.
Then, too, getting a total picture of the context of the statements ~ particularly those being cited 20 and 30 years later, or in newspapers by reporters who had only the slightest idea what they were writing about, wil help you figure out some of it.
No doubt this stuff gets recycled from time to time. Doesn't mean it's bigotry though.
The faithful of any religion, or branch of a religion, have to learn that the non-believers, and/or non-members probably don't know about the context, or the correct interpretations, or the reputation of the speaker or writer. Knowing that they can patiently explain things to their critics and frequently win them over. No need to be like the Moslems about it.
( ..he walks slowly, backwards, out of the room...)
That’s what frost’s me, the poor religious conservatives who felt put upon by mean ol wepublican wino’s are doing the same thing to Mitt Romney and those of us who support him.
It’s a quandary eh?
Reading these threads can be like pulling teeth, I congratulate you for sticking to your guns (figuratively speaking).