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	<title>Comments on: Today&#8217;s Reading List &#8211; May 21, 2007</title>
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	<description>&#34;Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian&#34;</description>
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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
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		<description>John Schroeder and others like him give me hope that deep down inside there are still Americans who believe in fair play. They tell me by their actions that thinking differently is OK and like sports, opponents are not enemies. Even Mike Huckabee&#039;s comment on Leno that politics is a full contact sport and participants should be OK with the sight of their own blood makes me hopeful that the message, if not a change in behavior, is circulating. Maybe someday the SBC and others who think like them will drop the anti-Mormon campaigns they wage in their churches in favor of deliberative discourse. Certainly Romney&#039;s campaign has opened the dialog between Mormons and people who try to be good Americans. I have had more opportunities to discuss our beliefs in the last six months than any other time in my memory. I am thankful for that. 

Things have changed a great deal since the times when my grandmother was told she could not go to school because she was a Mormon. In those days, Idaho had a statute that denied the vote to people who believed in Celestial marriage. My wife&#039;s cousins, while serving missions in the deep south, were actually asked to remove their hats to prove they didn&#039;t have horns. We laugh at that now days, but the discrimination against Mormons and minorities is still very real. And the practitioners are not all mouth breathing inbreeds. You find them in government, business, education and well respected churches and their hierarchies. In fact, you have to try hard to find a church where that is not the case. Those who deny such things exist have never experienced such treatment. But it is real. It exists and is everywhere. One can only hope that by Romney&#039;s and Obama&#039;s run for the presidency things are changing. We will see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Schroeder and others like him give me hope that deep down inside there are still Americans who believe in fair play. They tell me by their actions that thinking differently is OK and like sports, opponents are not enemies. Even Mike Huckabee&#8217;s comment on Leno that politics is a full contact sport and participants should be OK with the sight of their own blood makes me hopeful that the message, if not a change in behavior, is circulating. Maybe someday the SBC and others who think like them will drop the anti-Mormon campaigns they wage in their churches in favor of deliberative discourse. Certainly Romney&#8217;s campaign has opened the dialog between Mormons and people who try to be good Americans. I have had more opportunities to discuss our beliefs in the last six months than any other time in my memory. I am thankful for that. </p>
<p>Things have changed a great deal since the times when my grandmother was told she could not go to school because she was a Mormon. In those days, Idaho had a statute that denied the vote to people who believed in Celestial marriage. My wife&#8217;s cousins, while serving missions in the deep south, were actually asked to remove their hats to prove they didn&#8217;t have horns. We laugh at that now days, but the discrimination against Mormons and minorities is still very real. And the practitioners are not all mouth breathing inbreeds. You find them in government, business, education and well respected churches and their hierarchies. In fact, you have to try hard to find a church where that is not the case. Those who deny such things exist have never experienced such treatment. But it is real. It exists and is everywhere. One can only hope that by Romney&#8217;s and Obama&#8217;s run for the presidency things are changing. We will see.</p>
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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
		<link>http://www.article6blog.com/2007/05/21/todays-reading-list-may-21-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-11908</link>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;When I confront my LDS friends (loudly, with arms waving) about responding to these horrible insults, the usual reaction is a shrug of the shoulders and a mumble &quot;what can one do about it?&quot; But something has to be done. Insidious discrimination, whether against Mormons or others, is a disease that permeates all the fabric of our country. Both Mormons and non-Mormons, in a very public manner, must paint this intolerance for what it is: bigotry. This is not the time for passive-aggressive behavior.&quot;
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I like this guy&#039;s thinking. Do you suppose he will say something on my behalf at the Church court?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;When I confront my LDS friends (loudly, with arms waving) about responding to these horrible insults, the usual reaction is a shrug of the shoulders and a mumble &#8220;what can one do about it?&#8221; But something has to be done. Insidious discrimination, whether against Mormons or others, is a disease that permeates all the fabric of our country. Both Mormons and non-Mormons, in a very public manner, must paint this intolerance for what it is: bigotry. This is not the time for passive-aggressive behavior.&#8221;<br />
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<p>I like this guy&#8217;s thinking. Do you suppose he will say something on my behalf at the Church court?</p>
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