Comments on: Prophecy and Quotation http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/28/prophecy-and-quotation/ "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian" Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: ninadawn http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/28/prophecy-and-quotation/comment-page-1/#comment-3940 ninadawn Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:21:11 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/28/prophecy-and-quotation/#comment-3940 As a Mormon, I am interested in Romney's campaign because I am interested in how people perceive Mormons. So I sometimes peruse this blog. As a liberal leaning Democrat (as liberal leaning as an Oklahoma-bred Mormon can reasonably be, anyway), I am sometimes annoyed at the "conservatives are misguided, liberals are evil" attitude that seems to permeate your (in a plural sense) commentary on various news pieces. You accuse "liberals" of being out to destroy religion. I have three objections: 1. This blanket statement is used in an unjustifiably broad sense. I have no doubt that some liberals are out to destroy religion. I also have no doubt that some Baptist pastors use gay prostitutes, some Mormons are alcoholics, and some 12 yr-old boys don't want a Playstation (completely random list). I just don't know many of them. For example, round these parts, we open Democratic precinct meetings with a word of prayer. You also conveniently ignore that fact that liberals like the folks at the ACLU are frequently at the forefront of protecting minority religious rights. 2. As this excerpt from <em>The Reformed Pastor</em> discusses, religious people often bring their religion into contempt without help from outsiders. For example, it seems that just about every election in Oklahoma the Christian Coalition is fined for illegal and dishonest campaign activities. Then their members complain about immorality of the Democratic candidates. It turns liberals off. 3. This is really all about politics. I postulate that the only reason you can find more liberal anti-Mormon attack pieces is because Romney is conservative. If he were a Democratic candidate, there would be more conservative anti-Mormon pieces. As a Mormon, I am interested in Romney’s campaign because I am interested in how people perceive Mormons. So I sometimes peruse this blog. As a liberal leaning Democrat (as liberal leaning as an Oklahoma-bred Mormon can reasonably be, anyway), I am sometimes annoyed at the “conservatives are misguided, liberals are evil” attitude that seems to permeate your (in a plural sense) commentary on various news pieces. You accuse “liberals” of being out to destroy religion. I have three objections:

1. This blanket statement is used in an unjustifiably broad sense. I have no doubt that some liberals are out to destroy religion. I also have no doubt that some Baptist pastors use gay prostitutes, some Mormons are alcoholics, and some 12 yr-old boys don’t want a Playstation (completely random list). I just don’t know many of them. For example, round these parts, we open Democratic precinct meetings with a word of prayer. You also conveniently ignore that fact that liberals like the folks at the ACLU are frequently at the forefront of protecting minority religious rights.

2. As this excerpt from The Reformed Pastor discusses, religious people often bring their religion into contempt without help from outsiders. For example, it seems that just about every election in Oklahoma the Christian Coalition is fined for illegal and dishonest campaign activities. Then their members complain about immorality of the Democratic candidates. It turns liberals off.

3. This is really all about politics. I postulate that the only reason you can find more liberal anti-Mormon attack pieces is because Romney is conservative. If he were a Democratic candidate, there would be more conservative anti-Mormon pieces.

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