We aren’t defending Mormonism, we are defending the persons.
To just condemn them is to accept their fate. Who cares about them, they are doomed, lets just ignore them attitude doesn’t seem write.
Some Catholics don’t want to reach out to bring these people in, they do make some of the same judgments of the people as well.
Washing of the Feet on Holy Thursday
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=3155
A lot of the Roman Catholic Tradition became self centric while many of the other branches of the Church continued other similar traditions.
We can recall how Jesus washed the feet of the Sinners and people who didn’t believe.
Because of some of the things that happened in the early Church, it became the official state religion of the Roman Empire. So when I look at tradition, I have to be mindful of the affect of a State Religion vs and Orthodox Religion what was tied to the State ... to be subservient to the State in certain state matters. This is what we call secular world matters that don’t have to do with your Spiritual Salvation.
I think if we were to follow Jesus’s example, we would go down the the LDS Church and attempt to clean their feet. If I lived in Salt Lake, I would be out there on the side walk.
Glen Beck is a TBM (true believing Mormon). No, to condemn them is to get them to see what is wrong and show others what is wrong.
There is a campaign that did what you suggested, it failed miserably because it didn’t reach any Mormons or get them to leave and come to Christ, instead it reinforced the their belief that they were Christians. It was a campaign where Christians hugged Mormons and agreed with a verse in the Book of Mormon.
I don’t just do this on FR. I worked for a ministry to the LDS (volunteer). I have done this for almost 20 years now. I’ve met with them in Provo and Salt Lake. While your idea SOUNDS nice, it doesn’t reach them. You have to first get them to see the errors of Mormonsim before you can ‘love them to the Lord’. It is a 2 step process and the first step (extraction) is hard and brutal - but that is the only way to break through the brainwashing.
“Washing their feet” just reinforces their deception. Getting someone out of a cult is far different than reaching non-believers or agnostics.