If you would be so kind as to post a link to any comment I’ve made in any thread at any time that defended the religion of Mormonism, I would appreciate it, so I could go and correct the error.
I have defended people of the mormon faith from unfair or rediculous attacks on their conservatism, I have argued against writing off an entire religious group from participation, I’ve criticized those who politically attacked conservatives for being Mormon.
These are political arguments, not religious. As a religion, I don’t think LDS is the worst religion around, or even in the bottom 50% of religions from a human perspective, realising that this is not a “belief” rating but rather a rating of how I feel I could deal with people of various faiths.
I certainly wouldn’t want anybody to join the LDS church. So I can’t think of any reason why I would ever do so.
I wouldn’t want anybody joining a Jewish synagogue either, but I would defend conservative jews against attacks based on their religion.
For all I know, I might be the ONLY non-mormon defender of our fellow conservatives of that religious persuasion — I don’t care. I am a champion of lost causes. Heck, I’ve even been known to defend conservative muslims in the political arena (although I haven’t had much occasion to do so recently, and I mostly just ignore those types of threads now).
I’m not one to unnecessarily ostracize people who might ally with me on the conservative issues that matter. I don’t see us having enough friends that we can write off people of the religion that saved us from gay marriage in California, or who do as much as anybody to defend the unborn, and to sell families as a way of life.
I don’t have to believe in their faith to appreciate their political commonalities.
You defended the polygamists during the FLDS raids, and you are here defending the LDS for their teaming with radical Islamists, among other threads where Mormonism is the topic.
From the article I linked to earlier by Debbie Schlussel we read this:
An Islamic Relief fundraising dinner I attended in summer 2004 in Dearborn, Michigan, was chilling. It was just after Americans Nicholas Berg and Paul Johnson were beheaded by Muslims.
The evening’s “entertainment” consisted of young boys–some apparently as young as seven–simulating beheadings and shootings of other young boys who donned the American, Israeli, and British flags. Then they put red scarves over their heads to symbolize blood . . . and no head. Afterward, they took off the flags and stomped on them. Almost every Islamic leader in town was there, clapping in ecstasy. So was U.S. Congressman John Conyers, who will run the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats regain control of Congress.
The master of ceremonies was Rayed Tayeh, formerly employed by Islamic Association for Palestine, which several former top FBI officials say is a HAMAS front group. In 2002, Tayeh served as spokesman of a Muslim group boycotting Starbucks because its Chairman is Jewish. A letter Tayeh wrote in a Capitol Hill newspaper was deemed so anti-Semitic that even Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney fired him from her staff.
An Islamic Relief fundraiser I attended, Friday, was tamer. Misbah Shahid, the organization’s Detroit representative, announced that IRW publishes and distributes school textbooks to children in Palestinian refugee camps. But textbooks distributed in the camps are riddled with anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American rhetoric, according to Molly Resnick of Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate.
Shahid also told the audience that his organization is one of the key Non-Governmental Organizations currently distributing aid to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, including U.N. and U.S. aid. But those camps are known as breeding grounds for terrorists.
Given all this, why are Mormons pouring millions into Islamic Relief?
And yet, you are still vehemently defending Mormonism in their long standing relationship to IR-USA. I really see no need to provide any link since it is so obvious on this thread alone.