My point is that they are a 7 million member (in the US) voting block, as well as a ~TRILLION dollar corporation itching to make another buck.
Harry Reid has told you all that you mentioned already. He is the current darling of the LDS church.
They are a cult, and their members do what they are told, blindly.
Beware the beast if they turn to environmentalism.
I’m not looking at them at all, church or not. I simply don’t care about them.
It is a matter of scale to me. How many voting members of Congress are Mormons? That is how I see it. If it were >25-40%, then I might think differently. But last time I looked, they were a very small minority, 13 out of 535, which is a total of 2.4%. Even if they vote as a monolithic block in the House and Senate, it doesn’t worry me.
But it is clear that some people are worried about Mormons. I just don’t have that much energy to expend on them, that’s all.
I read your response above, indicating you left the Mormon church...I understand how you would feel differently about it than I would. But, as I said, as long as I don’t have to be one, and their effect on my life is limited to non-existent, then I want to direct my energies elsewhere.
And by the way...thanks for your service. As an ex-swabbie, I can still say “Thank God for the USMC” and not feel that I have denigrated anyone else by not acknowledging them...:)