“Care to elaborate, or do you just want to back down and leave it at that?”
I’ll give a try. Christians believe Jesus Christ is God. Mormon doctrine “perverts” this message in such a radical way that voting for a Mormon is traitorous to Jesus Christ. It has little to do with being “mean”.
I’m neither a Christian nor a Mormon so on some level you’re probably right, I am incapable of truly understanding, at least the emotions involved.
But Mormons claim to worship Christ. Are they lying?
“Christians believe Jesus Christ is God.”
We believe that He is God, too. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Jehovah of the Bible.
I’ll give a try. Christians believe Jesus Christ is God. Mormon doctrine “perverts” this message in such a radical way that voting for a Mormon is traitorous to Jesus Christ.
Would you mind giving us a citation for Mormon Doctrine for that?
It's even stronger than this. Hypothetical: Say that in Fred Thompson's declaration speech around whatever-corner-that-is, he adds to the end of it one of those 100-mph mumbled disclaimers we hear at the end of some radio (& TV) ads. Upon replaying the tape by slowing it down to something that's decipherable, we hear Fred say: "My faith & my 'scripture' tells me that every other church than my own is an apostate one. All your creeds are an abomination before God. Your leaders are corrupt. Your church is of the devil whereas mine is of the Lamb. Now, I'm speaking directly to you historic Christians out there. Now that I've properly inspired you, vote for Fred, the one who will represent you best in the White House."
[Now for those who don't know that I've just incorporated parts of LDS "scripture" into the above, just read Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, v. 19 + 3 Nephi for reference to "church of the devil" being only one of 2 churches]