[mountaineer]

It's difficult to respond to this without violating Jim's rule against "bashing," but I have to wonder what Mr. Keyes is thinking in purporting to defend Mormonism as an evangelical Christian denomination.

[LarryLied]

I have to wonder what Mr. Keyes is thinking in purporting to defend Mormonism as an evangelical Christian denomination.

Respect. It is proper to call people what they call themselves. Christians have been denying others who called themselves that are really Christians for nearly 2,000 years.

[f.Christian]

I was hoping to get Alan Keyes interested in the... Realatarian Party---Pat and Bay Buchanan too!

Realatarians Up--Go!

[Colofornian]

Keyes: ...with respect to Mormons, but which is also a characteristic of many OTHER Christian denominations...

For once, Keyes is way off base in describing Christian denominations as following the same Christ as Mormons do ("...a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached"--2 Cor. 11:4).

Hewitt: "...the history of bashing Mormons in American journalism is long and rich and very shameful."

Yes and no...some of it is...some of it has been pure left-wing bashing...some of it is pure truth-telling...You can't have a history of polygamy, a history of baptizing dead people, a history of the Danites under Brigham's reign, a history of the Meadow Mtn. Massacres, etc., without simply saying that some of it has been brought on by internal actions within Utah.