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RobRoy, thanks for answering my question to you in a mature and adult manner. So many don't.

>>”The members are people that can be turned around.”<<

My next question is, “turned around” to what? Another religion, another belief? If the members are happy in their beliefs and their form of worship, why should so many people want them to change?

It is human nature for everyone to have people think the way they do. They feel their beliefs are the only way, e.g., Jesuit priests covering the earth trying to convert tribal natives to believe the way they do, Baptist and Mormon etc. missionaries, same thing. Democrats arguing with Republicans because they think the other is so stupid and naive that they just ‘don't see the light’.

Thanks again for ‘discussing’ this with me, rather than responding with nasty immature remarks, as so many here do. I must admit that I am guilty of firing back when attacked by these bigots. Yes, they are bigots and they know who they are.

I have painfully tried over and over again to try to explain to certain people here at FR that I am not a practicing Mormon and that I only defend them because my family roots can be traced back to the beginning of the church.

My Gr. x3 grandfather left his family to fight for a country that had condoned killing Mormons. After they were burned out in Nauvoo, IL he joined, along with 500 other Mormon men to march with the Mormon Battalion. He actually walked 5000 miles to get back to them in winter quarters where he found them half-starved. They gathered what they could and then walked back to Utah. His story is well celebrated in Mormon history books. He was the “Butcher” that slit a wild bull's throat with a knife in the “Battle of the Bulls”.

Mormons are not a cult, not a sect and do not eat babies. They are good hard working and honest people that just tired of being pushed around by people that didn't agree with their form of worship. I don't understand the hatred that comes from a small group of ‘Mormon-Haters’ that have infiltrated Free Republic. Mormons do love Jesus and God, they are Christians and they live clean lives. I must add at this point that, according to the survey, that they are more well-versed in the teachings of the Bible than other religions. Facts are facts.

I guarantee that someone will clip a couple of my words written here and make a big issue out of it. They will respond to me with quotes and links, ad nauseum.

Take care, my FRiend.....panax