Ok, so you’ve got a theological beef with the Mormons. Do you consider 0bama—the guy who calls the deranged wailing of a muezzin “the sweetest sound on Earth”—a good Christian? I’ll take a Mormon any day of the week over that. (And no, I don’t buy their theology any more than Jews believe Christian claims about the identity of the Messiah.)
It isn’t a theological beef. The Mormon church allowed a wagon train— from Arkansas, to pass from Northeast Utah through the state to southwest Utah. There, the church leaders ordered a massacre of about 120 members of the train. Apparently local Paiute Indians were also involved. For decades, the LDS church covered up it’s involvement the massacre, finally allow church member John D. Lee to take the fall for the crime. He was executed and the LDS church pretended it was all over, That covered up continued past the 1960’s when I proposed an usndergraduate writing project to my professor to go to southwest Utah and try to determine the extent of the Paiute’s involvement. I wrote a letter telling of my intent to a Utah Baptist pastor. He wrote right back, saying that could well in danger if I came up. I took his letter to the mother of an LDS girl I used to date in high school. (Their family was from southwest Utah.) She acknowledged the truth of the Baptist preacher’s claim and discouraged me from going. (I didn’t.) Since that time, I have watched the LDS church continue to deceive the American public on various issues. That is the heritage of the LDS church. Your claim that you’d take Mormons over Obama is a misguided and thoroughly lame. If you wish to help elect a man whose heritage is engrained with this kind of lying deceitfulness, then I can’t respect either your position or your integrity.