i missed th epart where Catholics and Baptists try to align themselves with mormonism - yet there are plenty here where mormons try to align themselves with mainstream Christians, while at the same time considering themselves the "One true faith" and the others heretical. Additionally, I dont see mormons accepting the creeds
Catholics and Baptists both try to align themselves with “Christianity”, just like Mormons do. Mormons don’t try to “align” themselves with the Catholic faith, since (as you note) they don’t support those other faiths.
The Catholic faith also, at some level, believes all other Christian faiths are heretical. And at the basest definition of “heretical”, most faiths to some degree or another find other faiths somewhat heretical — or certainly misguided, while they believe themselves to be the “true faith”.
But stepping beyond the religious discussion, this thread was about whether people who express a particular faith also adhered to commonly accepted conservative principles.
If you go through this thread and replace “Mormon” with “Catholic”, you will see that some posts argue that people of a certain faith simply can’t adhere to conservative political principles because of their faith. My point about swapping names was to get people thinking about how Mormons would feel reading about how they couldn’t be conservatives, or should quit the party, or weren’t welcomed.
Most people don’t notice attacks on others. So in general, a good way to figure out whether people are using bigoted attacks are to swap whatever religion, or sex, or heritage, is being referenced with your OWN religion/sex/heritage, and then ask yourself if you would consider what you are reading an attack on you with those changes.
If so, and if the references to religion/sex/heritage are not germaine to the discussion, then you are reading a bigoted attack.