RANT MANDATED

The wonkette carries some video of Larry King featuring the new head of the FLDS "endorsing" Romney.  Talk about your "stealth religious attack."  The FLDS is an infamous breakaway sect from the Mormon church and decidely polygamous.  The guy King is interviewing is taking over for Warren Jeffs, who has been arrested for murder.  What possible purpose could King have for the question other than to link Romney and the CJCLDS to this bunch of thieving, polygamous thugs?  No one in King's position can claim ignorance of the situation here.

Would Larry King ask a convicted felon if they are going to vote for Hillary or Obama?  This is absolutely abysmal.  It's partisan journalism at its absolute worst.  It's partisan politics and it's religously bigoted.  Larry King should be off the air.

Lowell:  What's odd about this is that King has historically been quite friendly to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  (Here is a transcript of a prior King interview with the Church's current president, Gordon B. Hinckley.) King's even married to a Mormon woman. (Or he was; I think she was his seventh marriage after six divorces. I will pass on the obvious polygamy joke.)  King may well have lacked any malicious intent; I suspect his idiotic question is the result of his general obtuseness about politics.

The really foolish part of the Wonkette's post is where she refers to this polygamist, who has apparently fled to Canada to avoid arrest, as Romney's "fellow Mormon."  No, Wonkette, there's no relationship between the church Romney belongs to and this polygamous group.  Never has been, never will be.  The polygamists are not Mormons; Romney is.  This is the sort of stealth religious attack we'll see a lot of, since lefty bloggers are not all that fond of precision when they're writing about an evil Republican.

NOW BACK TO OUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING.

Hotline wraps up the Log Cabin thing pretty well.  Via EFM, Jay Sekulow adds some important facts.  Net effect of all of this - Romney gets inoculated early.

An endorsement?

John Mark Reynolds continues defending Christian action in the public square.

Claiming the Reagan legacy.  Comparing Romney and Brownback in this light is almost silly.  Reagan was pretty tight-lipped about his faith, much like Romney.  Brownback, on the other hand ….

Lowell:  Hey, folks, I'm a Reagan Republican but the great man never went to church and his wife was into astrology.  Even so, neither I nor any other religious conservative ever had any qualms about voting for him on the basis of his religious beliefs, whatever they were.

For the record, this is how a cult behaves.  Call me when Mormons act this way.

A Christian and a Muslim concentrate on what they share, not their differences.  What a novel approach - Maybe creedal and Mormon Christians could do the same thing!  OH WAIT! That's what Lowell and I are doing.

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