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From the main topic of the thread:

Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America
That's according to a new report from Pew, released today and based on data from the group's 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.
More Mormons (60 percent) identify themselves as conservatives than any other religious group; they also lead every other group in GOP party identification (at 65 percent)--much higher than the general population in both categories

It is a discussion of a survey of the POLITICAL viewpoint of people professing different religious faiths, a survey which found that people professing the Mormon faith were the "most conservative".

In the thread, some posters suggested that we should reject the support of people of religions we don't agree with.

The discussion was about whether we should accept or reject political support (votes) from people of faiths other than our own.

It was NOT a discussion of whether a particular faith was correct or not, although some people tried to make it about the beliefs of the faith, rather than whether we should accept political support from people of other faiths.

There was no intent to argue that the religions was correct simply because it had a larger percentage of conservatives within the faith than others.

It was posted, I presume, with the intent of getting people of other faiths to stop attacking conservatives of the Mormon faith on a political forum, driving these conservatives away and making it harder to elect conservatives.

Now, personally I understand having a discussion of whether people from certian religious groups should be supported if they are running for office. I would be very hard-pressed to vote for a conservative who was a scientologist for example, although I won't normally withhold my vote simply because the person isn't christian. I've voted for a mormon, a jew, and supported a muslim before; and I regularly vote for Catholics.

But it surprises me how many conservatives don't even want to accept the SUPPORT of people of other faiths, and think the conservative movement would be better off if we only had good Christians in our movement. Which is a great concept for a church, but in my opinion a lousy way to build a political movement.