I’ve been witness to plenty of Mormon bashers here on FR, and they sould be ashamed of themselves.
Stating that Mormons are not real Christians is not the same thing as Mormon bashing, though there was some real Mormon bashing during the primaries.
Theological disputes are appropriate and expected in a free society.
This is simply hate.
>>I’ve been witness to plenty of Mormon bashers here on FR, and they sould be ashamed of themselves.<<
I’m Catholic and I have too.
Most of us don’t bash Mormons themselves. It’s just when they try to say they’re a Christian organization that we get a bit testy. Mormons are fine people. They’re just off the bubble on their beliefs.
Agreed, but they won't. They are filled with more hatred for Mormons than they are for the despicable acts of homosexuals.
As a fundamentalist church-raised Baptist, I give a hearty AMEN to the above statement.
Ohhhh, many Freepers won't admit it .... but then how do you explain the fact that many (Republicans) supported "liberal flip-flopper" McCain (open borders amnesty, no on Bush tax cuts, close Guantanamo, America's criminal torture vote, Global Warming psychobabble, carbon tax, blames corporations) yet were over the top hateful toward Romney the Mormon.
Romney SUPPORTED and PROMOTED conservatism with dignity and enthusiasm..... yet many were obsessed with some stupid 3-second comment about homo's Romney made 20 years ago.... or because Romney's conversion to ProLife didn't meet their perfect approval.
McCain was absolutely the worst possible candidate for the Republicans in 2008 --- geeky, irritating, vindictive, frumpy, Washington insider for 35 years, hates religious conservatives, etc etc.
Romney supporters like myself did not back Romney because we thought Romney was 100% perfect about everything.
Far from it.
But he was the only candidate who stood a chance due to his relative youth, poise, grace, articulation, intellect, and he LOOKED and SOUNDED presidential.....
Which after all, is a largely why Obama won.
Even I, a staunch conservative, born again GOP committeeman could not stomach the thought of hearing a lackluster word-fumbler like McCain the next four years.
Hey, flame away. It doesn't matter now.
There was a reason that almost every thinking conservative in America (Hannity, Limbaugh, Hewitt, Coulter, Weyrich, Rich Lowrey, Rick Santorum, Tom Tancredo, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham) endorsed and begged people to nominate Romney.... and not McCain.
And it had nothing to do with Mormon. It was because people could actually envision Romney as President.
Me and many others (obviously) could not envision McCain stutter-stepping and fumbling around Air Force One or the White House even as his health got worse due to the pressure of being POTUS.
Tough words? Yes, but an honest assessment.
For what?
PRinting quotes from their Founder and subsequent Leaders?
Printing things that their publishing house has issued?
Not saying nice things about Mitt?
WHAT?
>>I’ve been witness to plenty of Mormon bashers here on FR, and they sould be ashamed of themselves.<<
I tend to agree with that. I really hate most of the teaching of Mormonism, but I also have Christian friends who are also Mormon. Heck, in my old band, I was the only non-mormon member. My boss is fourth generation Mormon.
I saw one of those ads on youtube, and they were WAY over the top and inapropriate.
From the perspective of a Mormon, there is no difference between the hate displayed here (by some) on FR and the hate that comes from the pro-Prop. 8 protesters in the streets.
Hate is hate. The haters won't be ashamed because they've demonstrated that they know no shame. The people who should be ashamed are those who allow the hate to continue unchallenged.
Its not just here at FR.
“I’ve been witness to plenty of Mormon bashers here on FR, and they sould be ashamed of themselves.”
Amen!!!!
But, with sophomoric ads like the one Goldberg describes, it’s no wonder Prop 8 won.
Mormons bashing people. Who woulda thunk? You're right, those Mormons who bash others should be ashamed of themselves.