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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Just a friendly suggestion here. How about Mormons reflecting.a little on why they seem so freaky to those outside the faith? They could learn something from all this. Waxing defensive and self-righteous is rarely a path to increased wisdom.
(As we've discussed, rejecting a candidate for his religiuos faith is not ipso facto imoral. In fact, many Mormons are themselves repelled by Huckabee on the same grounds.)
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You actually make a good point here. Mormons ought perhaps to consider how we appear to others with the idea in mind that perhaps change may be good. Instead, I hear us quoting that scripture about us being "peculiar." Which, in case anybody didn't know it already, does not, and was never supposed to mean "strange" or "odd" in that scripture.
At the same time, there is a difference between Huckabee and Romney on their approach to religion. Romney is trying to show, to those people that insist on bringing it up, that his religion is not going to be a detriment should he be elected. Huckabee is practically using religion as his campaign slogan. A vote for Huck is a vote for Jesus. And evangelicals are eating it up.