Comments on: Quick Links 1/10/08 http://www.article6blog.com/2008/01/09/for-tomorrow-16/ "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian" Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: JLFuller http://www.article6blog.com/2008/01/09/for-tomorrow-16/comment-page-1/#comment-11981 JLFuller Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:04:17 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2008/01/09/for-tomorrow-16/#comment-11981 Miami Herald columnist Dan Le Batard stated on ESPN that the Miami's Dolphins suffered under a Mormon quarterback in the 2006 season. His comment left out the realities of a totally dysfunctional offense and the fact they had to employ a rookie, just a couple of months out of college ball, was curiously absent. If I had been interested in debasing myself, I could have made some derogatory comments about Le Batard, his name and heritage. But the list of things I need to repent for is long enough. Rush Limbaugh's comment on ESPN in 2003 about Eagles Quarterback Donavan McNabb got him chucked right off the air <em>tout de suite</em> and rightfully so. But it seems ESPN and the Hearld find such bigoted abuse of others quite amusing. If anyone is still doubtful of the depth of anti-Mormon undercurrent in this country and whether it really exists or is just a figment of some paranoid imaginations, this surely is an example of just how badly mistaken they are. The list seems endless. Do I have to mention John McCain's mother on national TV or Mike Huckabee and the Southern Baptist Convention? How about McCain's South Carolina Mormon hate operation and Rep. Gloria Haskins. Or John McCain's Iowa campaign chairman, Chad Workman, ranting on about Mormons in a political gathering. One participant summed up Workman's argument this way: <em>"The fundamental flaw of Mitt Romney . . . was that he was Mormon, not because he thinks this way or that way on one issue." </em>as reported by Scott Helman of the Boston Globe. One black acquaintance asked me once "when is it going to end"? He was talking about racial discrimination. But it can be said about anti-Mormon bigotry too. Miami Herald columnist Dan Le Batard stated on ESPN that the Miami’s Dolphins suffered under a Mormon quarterback in the 2006 season. His comment left out the realities of a totally dysfunctional offense and the fact they had to employ a rookie, just a couple of months out of college ball, was curiously absent. If I had been interested in debasing myself, I could have made some derogatory comments about Le Batard, his name and heritage. But the list of things I need to repent for is long enough. Rush Limbaugh’s comment on ESPN in 2003 about Eagles Quarterback Donavan McNabb got him chucked right off the air tout de suite and rightfully so. But it seems ESPN and the Hearld find such bigoted abuse of others quite amusing. If anyone is still doubtful of the depth of anti-Mormon undercurrent in this country and whether it really exists or is just a figment of some paranoid imaginations, this surely is an example of just how badly mistaken they are.

The list seems endless. Do I have to mention John McCain’s mother on national TV or Mike Huckabee and the Southern Baptist Convention? How about McCain’s South Carolina Mormon hate operation and Rep. Gloria Haskins. Or John McCain’s Iowa campaign chairman, Chad Workman, ranting on about Mormons in a political gathering. One participant summed up Workman’s argument this way: “The fundamental flaw of Mitt Romney . . . was that he was Mormon, not because he thinks this way or that way on one issue.” as reported by Scott Helman of the Boston Globe. One black acquaintance asked me once “when is it going to end”? He was talking about racial discrimination. But it can be said about anti-Mormon bigotry too.

]]>