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From the commentary: It was not until the mid- to late-1970s that the Democratic party fell out of favor among Utah Mormon voters.

This is so. Lds were highly focused on the Democrats going back to the late 1850s and early 1860s (even though they weren't officially a state until the 1890s). They were anti-Republican, in part, because the fledgling Repubs had labeled polygamy as slavery as the "twin relics of barbarism"

From the commentary: "I am a Democrat," stated Senator Harry Reid, "because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it." Like Reid, I believe that the Democratic party takes the strongest position on many moral issues. For example, King Benjamin's address in the Book of Mormon...

Hmmm...Doesn't take a cultural moral detective to render this statement as "suspect."

From the article: Finally, I am a Democrat because I believe LDS scripture and prophets have urged us to live within our means, to be fiscally responsible. Democrats believe we need to pay for any programs we create

(Oh yeah, that's what Dems are..."fiscally responsible...do we have "amens" from the Mormon Tabernacle?)

. My father was a steelworker who believed that the Democrats were the party that ended the Depression, won the War, and fought for the rights of working people.

Therein is the problem. The lies of his father used for indoctrination ultimately continue with his lies today.

Mormon Democrats are few and far in between. There is a reason Bill Clinton came in third in Utah. I think I'm really starting to pick up on your consistent stream of Mormon threads. Is it because you fear the success of Glenn Beck and what he represents to this great country?

Did you know the book he's been promoting, The 5000 Year Leap, was written by a prominent Mormon?

Mormon Democrats are few in numbers.

Here's a little dose of medicine to put this thread in perspective. This was from LDS prophet and president Ezra Taft Benson, one of my favorite in modern times.

“The proper function of government is limited only to those spheres of activity within which the individual citizen has the right to act. By deriving its just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense again bodily harm, theft and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute wealth or force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will.”