Romney and Huntsman could exploit the Church of Latter-Day Saints’ history of terrible persecution.
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Yeah Romney and Huntsman could own up to all the Christians that the Mormons murdered
But they wont
This seems to indicate that the mormon candidates will try to counter the racist and polygamist past of the mormon church by playing the victim card. They've been doing it for 180 years.
I can't see how they can logically believe that running a mormon against a black man can possibly be successful, but mormons are deeply ingrained with the belief that a mormon will "save the constitution".
"“Anyone can look at the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith... Brigham Young and others.... I have always felt that they meant that sometime the question of whether we are going to proceed on the basis of the Constitution would arise and at this point government leaders who were Mormons would be involved in answering that question.”- George Romney, interview in “A Man’s Religion and American Politics: An Interview with Governor Romney,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Autumn 1967, v. 2, p. 25
Additionally, here is a link to a very complete article on actual "persecution" of mormons.
Violence in Early Mormonism - Was It All Unjust Persecution?
As the author notes: "Even with my strong views regarding the errors of the Mormon faith, religious persecution as properly defined, is always wrong. I say properly defined because many Mormons feel that any verbal disagreement with their faith is a type of persecution. However, it gets a little tiring to hear of Mormons constantly pointing to their 19th century persecutions as if this is some sort of sign of God's divine approval on the LDS Church. If violence against a certain faith were the only way to determine truth, then certainly the Mormons themselves would have to recognize that our Christian faith was just as viable as theirs.
Can a Mormon, off the top of his head, recall when the last Mormon was killed just because he was a Mormon? Certainly we have heard of Mormons being tragically killed while serving missions, but these cases involve circumstances other than true martyrdom (robberies, car accidents, being mistaken for CIA agents, etc). On the other hand, it is not uncommon to hear of Christians around the world who are being killed because they refuse to denounce their belief that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. While martyrdom seems to be a thing of the past for the Mormons, it is a common occurrence among those who have placed their total trust in the Jesus of the Bible."
How?
After all, that printing press thing seems like something they'd want to downplay; along with MORMONism's founder's penchant for lying, cheating, scamming and false prophecying.
Then there is that little thing about the Fancher party, Danites and polygamy: which is STILL 'scriptural'!