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>> as a means to propagate more anti-Mormon bigotry
>> at the expense of Mitt Romney

Whoa!! There might be some anti-Mormon bigotry out there. But for the most part the “anti-Mormon” dialogue is in response to the undeniable bigotry that is deeply ingrained in Mormonism. How do you personally feel Reaganesque about the bigotry in the Book of Mormon? Do you denounce it? Or do you accept the bigotry of that book? Do you denounce Brigham Young’s bigoted racism? Or do you think he was a true prophet of God?

IMHO the last people who should be calling anyone a bigot are Mormons who believe in the Book of Mormon or who believe that Brigham Young was a true prophet.

You’re fretting about bigotry in the Book of Mormon?

You better check the Bible before you cast stones at the Book of Mormon:

(Gen. 9:20-27)

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

(Ex. 21:2-6)

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

(Exodus 21:20-21)

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

(Lev. 25:44-46)

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

And for those who think it only appears in the Old Testament, consider the following:

(Colossians 4:1)

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

(1 Peter 2:18-21)

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

And for those of the female persuasion, the Bible says thus:

(1 Corinthians 14:34-35)

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

(1 Tim. 2: 11-12)

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

How do you personally feel Reaganesque about the bigotry in the Book of Mormon? Do you denounce it?

Sorry; but he CANNOT!!

Remember; these are the WORDS OF GOD!

You take out one link, and the whole thing collapses!