he’s a very dangerous and incompetant person.
Harry Reid became a Mormon while still in college, for purely political reasons. It may come as a surprise to many, but before they returned largely to Utah, there were large numbers of Mormons in and around the area which is now Las Vegas, Nevada. There had been colonies sent out from Salt Lake City as missionary groups from before the territory of Utah was finally granted statehood, and many of these missionary colonies kind of broke off from the official LDS church. These dissident factions came to be known as “jack-Mormons”, and are not allowed to enter the designated Temples of the LDS.
Harry took all the necessary steps to become a Temple Mormon, which includes paying a pretty hefty tithe to the LDS treasury, so he is “safe” from censure by the church authorities. But he is at heart a “jack-Mormon”, and if strict attention were paid to his activities outside the Temple precincts, he would be drummed out on his ear for his lapses and totally self-serving behavior. One need only consider Harry’s sly and unsubstantiated charges that Mitt Romney had “evaded” Federal taxes, through concealment and taking “illegal” deductions, of which none of the charges had any basis in fact. Harry would do this to a “fellow Mormon”, so he would have no compunctions at all carrying out similar attacks on the “gentiles” who were not LDS.
Senility and mental disorders of several descriptions may well describe Harry’s current behavior, as the man has not one shred of civility in him. No matter how softly spoken, an insult uttered with malice is still bearing false witness. And even the least devout of Mormons has some familiarity with the Ten Commandments.