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Have you considered the harm you have caused by calling for censorship? Especially censorship of verifiable facts? Just because the fact that Joseph Smith was a crystal gazing occultist obsessed with Masonic rights and misinterpreting hieroglyphics while marrying 40 women is disturbing to your candidate, makes those things no less true.

"Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son?

Yeah, yeah. Perils of Mormonism.

If you can’t stand having these things see the light of day, that’s your problem.

I'm not sure why you've concluded that you're the only one who knows and understands the differences between Mormons and orthodox Christians.

In Nevada we just elected Gibbons as governor, he has been accused of molesting a cocktail waitress in a garage, and now the Wall Street Journal is playing a tap dance on his forehead over trips to Turkey with a no bid defense contractor who also employed his wife. I did vote for him, and have helped other Mormon candidates in the past.

What do you expect in a corrupt state dominated by gambling interests?

Gibbons has been given a pass on many issues because he is considered a “clean Mormon”, and no doubt got many votes that way, displacing a truly decent guy named Bob Beers in the primary. While some of the charges against Gibbons are typically trumped up, some are due to the cognitive disconnect that occurs in many Mormons between a rigid theology with strange beliefs and a clash with the real world. If those issues are not germane in the discussion of who should be president, I don’t know what issues are germane.

They are germane only if all Mormons behave this way. And there are no accusations against Romney on this. He was pretty squeaky clean of cronyism. In fact, one of the real criticisms of him as a conservative is that he was not enough of a crony and should have appointed more Republicans. His record is not without a fair number of Republican appointments but he was too bipartisan perhaps. OTOH, his record of appointments is nowhere near as bad as Giuliani's was.

“They are germane only if all Mormons behave this way. “

That is clearly a false statement. These issues are germane if the subset of Mormons who are in power positions behave this way. Since I have come across these attributes in heavily Mormon Nevada on many more than one occasion, I am arguing they are decidedly germane.

And your disdain for Nevada as corrupt supports my contention - Mormons have long been the enablers of the casino industry here as anyone with a sense of local history knows. Also, Utah tops the list for white collar crime. So please don’t trivialize my concerns since I have been up front and personal with these problems for quite a while. I work for a hedonist Jack Mormon, I helped start a $30 million business with a corrupt Temple Mormon who is being turned into the IRS, I am deep into the back story on the corrupt dealings of Harry Reid and his (jailed) Mormon convert Dario Herrera, I have been around two other multi millionaire Mormon concerns which also displayed these tendencies. And I have more personal stories than even this. So to act as though I am flying off the handle for no reason, is quite foolish.