Replies

There frequently is some over-the-top vitriol on FR.

Yet of the almost 70 posters who responded in the first 150+ replies to this Mormon-accusing-Evangelicals of being in the same assassination terrorist camp as Jihadists...
...(Actual Grig quote: "If there is an assassination attempt on him, it will either be by the Chineese, or by some religiously motivated nutjob (Islamic or Evangelical")
...only two posters (I believe) thought this incendiary prophesy was "over the top vitriol" eh???
...looks to me @ first glance that only two posters referenced this...

If the reverse was done -- if a present or future MORMON had been pegged as a presidential assassin on a thread, the hue and cry would have been great from the Mormons, the Romney supporters, and even others...and a zot probably would have been prompt.

Mormon Reno232 got the zot for suggesting that a FREEPER may have been involved in the shooting/killing of a California Lds bishop.

Grig was less personal (no FREEPER mention) -- but by being less personal, he intoned the entire Evangelical wing had given birth or was about to give birth to a presidential assassin.

Thanks for the ecumenical-let's-inspire-Evangelicals-to-rally-around-Romney vanity, Grig. I'm glad the mods have left it up. Will be a "great rallying cry" knowing where on the totem pole Mormons place Evangelicals...not just right next to Muslims in general, but jihadist terrorists. And not just "plain" murderers, but presidential assassins.

I guess we now know who Romney would direct the CIA and other agencies to have under its domestic microscope in a Romney presidency as the top-of-the-line perceived "security threat." Most Chinese are in China; most Muslims overseas; % - wise -- given that Evangelicals constituted over 1/3rd of the 2010 vote in the U.S. -- I guess us Evangelicals is where Romney will be placing his "security threat" budget, eh, Grig?

If Romney-as-POTUS could just spend $billions tracking down us Evangelicals who are little more outspoken about Mormonism, that would cover your concern about "religious intolerance" and "some very inflammatory rhetoric from some corners of the evangelical world about having a Mormon POTUS that could incite a nutjob to violence." (Grig, post #105)

But, of course, Grig, we know your vanity wasn't "inflammatory" and was fully "tolerant" of us Evangelicals... /sarc

“...only two posters (I believe) thought this incendiary prophesy was “over the top vitriol” eh???”

The intense level of vitriol spewed by some Evangelicals toward Mormonism makes it plausible that some already unbalanced person Westboro Baptist type might feel justified resorting to violence to ‘protect’ America from having a Mormon president. The replies reflect that a lot of people see that as plausible, and you don’t have anybody to blame but yourselves for that.

“If the reverse was done — if a present or future MORMON had been pegged as a presidential assassin on a thread, the hue and cry would have been great...”

I can’t say how others would react, but I would find the suggestion so insane I would laugh at how stupid the poster was making themselves look. Are Mormon Bishops or other leaders out whipping up animosity against any others? No. Is there some group within my church that is similar to the Westboro Baptists? Not that I know of. Plus we’ve been just fine with all kinds of non-Mormon presidents, helping them get elected, supporting them in office, working with them.

Anyway, your paranoid hyperventilating is as amusing as always.

Guess Grit forgot who he's allied with against the Obots ~ it's those white Evangelicals who vote Jesus first or something. Aren't they known as the "bitter, clingers"?

I do know that was forgotten completely in the run up to the Virginia primary. Somebody forgot that about 80% of the vote here is Evangelical ~ white and black ~ and if you want to get them out to vote for you it is necessary to kiss their communal tush, not kick it.

I'm looking at an historic low voter turnout here over that one issue.

I do hope for their sake that this idea that an Evangelical is going to assassinate a Mormon President is not a widespread belief.

NOTE ~ probably the right thread to note this, so far Romney hasn't made a big public appearance here before the masses of the great unwashed. His every appearance has been tightly controlled before elected officials or really, really, really rich people with their own security forces, and off in areas well off the beaten path.

He's showing every sign of being afraid of us.