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How Tolerant Are We?

Submitted by jason preston, Mar 13, 2007 14:57

Actually Joseph Smith Jr. also ran for President (just to get that record straight).

This is a very good article highlighting the bigotry that's prevalent in american soceity today. If you bash gays, ethnic minorities, disabled people you get big BOOOs by the media... but if you are decent law abiding clean-cut person and happened to be religious (mormon or otherwise) you will often be labeled a "sheep who can't think for herself/himself".

reality is that, in the mormon church you have a chance to develop leadership qualities at a very early age (both boys and girls), and most lds in their 40-50s have more leadership experience (so be it ,unpaid) than well known business managers and politicians do of the same age.

members of evangelicals, southern baptists, catholics (or whatever religious organization the media puts down this week) have a great amount of personal resource and resolution to do well in public service positions because of their faith.... and lds (mormons) tend to be even more so... look at the number of lds in the armed forces, for example than the proportion of the US citizenry. why? because of reliablility, resiliance and trustability.

it's not secularism, it is the open and unchallenged bigotry against religious people that brought this country to the brink of moral emptiness.

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So at a Harvard student forum questions were asked? This is supposed to mean that bigotry is going to keep... [MORE]	Mark	Apr 10, 2007 14:40
The Mormon Church (properly known as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" - "LDS") presents a huge problem... [MORE]	Charles Snedecor	Apr 7, 2007 00:59
"There is a looseness to it and almost a disrespect of it that if it were applied to Catholicism or... [MORE]	Jonathan Kimball	Apr 6, 2007 11:46
Having an axe to grind is not a phenomenon unique to former Mormons. I imagine every group that could be... [MORE]	Aric	Apr 8, 2007 18:28
It may be that the method of attack on Romney's faith is business as usual for politics. But most of... [MORE]	Lizzie Nelson	Mar 15, 2007 12:49
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints first ordained Blacks to the priesthood in 1832, which means Blacks were... [MORE]	Mark Hannig	Mar 15, 2007 11:31
I am a faithful and practicing Mormon, and feel that both the doctrine and history of my church is one... [MORE]	Thad Barkdull	Mar 27, 2007 21:33
As a political scientist, public administrator, and former elected municipal official, it seems to me that all those who want... [MORE]	E. Odell Miner, Ph.D.	Mar 14, 2007 18:33
The previous comments are all intelligent and helpful as is the article, but they all miss the point--the people publicizing... [MORE]	Joshua Steimle	Mar 14, 2007 00:04
It's interesting that much of the intolerance toward Mormonism that I've thus far read about are intolerance to their past... [MORE]	Sam	Mar 13, 2007 19:54
Actually Joseph Smith Jr. also ran for President (just to get that record straight). This is a very good article highlighting...	jason preston	Mar 13, 2007 14:57
Could Mitt Romney be more "Christian" than Evangelicals? Of course all Protestants and Catholics subscribe to the Nicene creed, which... [MORE]	Bot	Mar 13, 2007 07:45
It's unfortunate that Mitt Romney, who's obviously a man of achievement and excellent capabilities, is being pulverized simply on account... [MORE]	virgil crespus	Mar 13, 2007 07:01

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