I’m not doubting that. I didn’t run in the “power circles” so I just didn’t know those people. And of course a lot of Reid’s support comes from Mormons, and you don’t get much worse than Reid.
I was just sharing my experience, the people I knew. I live in the NY area now and I can tell you it’s much harder to find conservatives here than in the Nevada of my earlier days, and that includes Mormon Nevada.
Also, it’s a matter of public record that Utah has a more conservative voting history than, say, New Jersey.
And the once-red state of Nevada wasn’t turned blue by an influx of Mormons, but of Easterners and Mexicans.
And there we have it, mormonism is a cult but they are such nice people.
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Sam...you need to understand that I myself am a descendent from a polygamist Mormon leader...and have MANY relatives/extended relatives who are Lds. I love them. I would have high opinions of what they make do with stewardship-wise of their life -- if only that would actually glorify the true God!
(Glorifying ourselves and glorifying false gods simply robs God of that glory)
Sam, perhaps you've read my common response to those sharing about their good experiences with Mormons: If you were auditioning for godhood, you, too, would be on your best outward behavior!
Early in the book of Matthew, Jesus complimented the outward behavior of the Pharisees; yet in Matthew 23...he described them inwardly as whitewashed sepulcres -- graveyards.
Also, it’s a matter of public record that Utah has a more conservative voting history than, say, New Jersey.
If you want the details I could give them to you: Utah has an extremely high rate for financial fraud -- and has so for decades; the foreclosure rate is in the Top five; it has a high rate for depression and suicide; the sex offender rate in Utah is in the Top 20, and the educator-as-sex-abuser in Utah is much higher than that; its porn access rate is tops.
None of us has raving reviews of our "internal" life; yet what you see on the outside is not even remotely close to what is rotting on the inside in Utah.