02-06-2008, 12:18 AM | #1 |
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I wonder how this will go over on CB...
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02-06-2008, 12:20 AM | #2 |
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That's good stuff. I doubt that'll help your glowing reputation over there though.
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02-06-2008, 12:29 AM | #3 |
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You are right about Evangelicals willing to vote for Romney. That has been a surprise.
You conveniently leave out Huck's religious baiting concerning Mitt's Mormonism, explaining LDS unhappiness with him. Had Mitt done a similar thing, I think the Evangelical response would be similar.
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Or the McCain's decrying of federal funding going toward the SLC Olympics.
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For Mormons it's all about supporting the tribe. They're the last ones to justly accuse of religious bigotry. The hate Huckabee because he's an evangelical. It's the same quality of antipathy Evangelicals have for Mormons. It's truly a holy war.
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Isn't the result of your position that neither how LDS feel nor how evangelicals feels really is bigotry? We just see each other clearly and don't like one another for articulable reasons.
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Merely being an Evangelical is not a status offense amongst Mormons. Evangelicals who have held political office, such as John Ashcroft and George W. Bush, can be quite popular in Utah. Few Mormons hate Huckabee just because he's an Evangelical. Most hate him because he's a religion-baiting asshole.
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Now, before you remonstrate, let me say that Romney embraced the "Romney the Mormon candidate" label the day he decided to pander to the Evangelicals. He made religion an issue because basically abortion, gay marriage, and anit-immigration is all they care about. He only compounded this with his religion speech. He could have run like McCain and made religion a non-issue by being moderate on social issues like he did in Massachusettes. In that case his religion would have been a non-issue, and the Evangelicals would still have hated him like they do anyway.
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