[2ndDivisionVet]

No, I was trying to show her the spuriousness of her weak argument. Am I to be blamed for the anti-Semetic words and writings of Martin Luther due to my membership in the church that bears his name? Many modern scholars and other individuals consider George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and other giants of yesteryear to have been racist, sexist, genocidal and worse, based on the standards of today.

[ansel12]

Now you want to confuse Martin Luther with 1978 America, Jim Belushi, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, the Village People, and ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Mash’ and and Mitt Romney as a 31 year old Priest, businessman, father of four, son of a Mormon Bishop, and member of a famously devoted Mormon family, teaching racist Mormon doctrine?

You really want to pretend that this is some ancient history, that Mitt Romney as a Missionary, teacher, and Priest, soon to be Bishop and then Stake president, and as a member of perhaps the most dedicated, powerful Mormon families of all, is not to be personally tainted with this?

[greyfoxx39]

Am I to be blamed for the anti-Semetic words and writings of Martin Luther due to my membership in the church that bears his name?

Did you stay silent during the time that Martin Luther was compiling these writings and distributing them? Of course not, you were not alive.

If Mitt had objected to the racist doctrine he could have objected to them before 1978. He didn't.

[af_vet_rr]

No, I was trying to show her the spuriousness of her weak argument. Am I to be blamed for the anti-Semetic words and writings of Martin Luther due to my membership in the church that bears his name?

If Martin Luther was alive in the late 1970s and still producing those anti-Semitic words and writings, and you were in your 30s, yes, you would be blamed if you were a follower of his.

Romney wasn't some kid who didn't know better and this wasn't the 1870s, it was the 1970s. It is recent history, and it will be an issue for Romney. It will be brought up for discussion during his debates with Obama. The question writes itself.

And Romney and the Mormons have only themselves to blame. They spent millions on those idiotic "I'm a Mormon" ads, they should have brought this out as well and discussed it, and Romney should have been pushing for this to be resolved.