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[igotthisguitar]

No.

[Kepler]

[Gopher]

[agentX]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Czarjorge]

What about the Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing everyone from Hitler to Holocaust victims? That continues regardless of protests.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/West/12/10/baptizing.the.dead.ap/

Romney SHOULD be harangued about his religion. Is it not appropriate to take Huckabee to task for disbelieving evolution? There does need to be a public litmus test for a candidate's religion, that being the fact that they aren't TOO religious.

It's a political tradition in this country. When Kennedy ran his Papist upbringing was an issue.

Look at what Bush's evangelical madness has gotten us, all because he is certain the God put him in his position so whatever he does is right. I fear and admonish any candidate who would, knowingly or not, invoke the mandate of heaven for their rule.

[Gopher]

[igotthisguitar]

Answer the question Gopher.

[Ya-ta Boy]

When one group of Republicans attacks another group of Republicans--which is the case here--then I think it's fair to refer to the Republican attack machine. From what little I've seen, it's the Huckabee evangelicals attacking Romney.

[Gopher]

I see it as mere "politics." Republicans do it; Democrats do it; other parties do it. Politicians at the national, state, and local levels do it. Politicians outside of American politics -- that is, nearly everyone else in the world, as far as I can see, do it. They have done it for as long as humans have practiced the art of politics.

Indeed, people seem to do this in their everyday lives at their places of employment via office gossip -- including, in my experience, within the military, within casinos, and especially within Academe. It is ubiquitous. Whereever you find humans grouped more than two, whereever interest groups and factions of any size arise, you will find this behavior.

"The Republican attack machine" unfairly isolates, then. Pots calling kettles "black," if you will.

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[mithridates]

[Tiger Beer]

[daskalos]

What pisses me off most about Romney is the way he calls foul whenever anyone brings up the perfectly valid point that he's managed to shift his position on any given issue one could care to name.

He could decide instead to say something along the lines of, "I'm grown up enough to be able to change my mind about a serious issue after being presented with new information." Of course this route would leave him very little else to say on the campaign trail, given the number of issues on which he's changed his mind and the seeming convenience of the timing of those shifts. It would be pretty clear, should he try to justify his shifts, that the only "new information" he was presented with was that if he wanted to get elected president, he had to jettison the positions that got him elected governor of very liberal Massachussets.

So I was wrong. He couldn't decide instead to address his shifts when challenged on them. All he can do is pout and declare how mean people are being to him to bring up his record, which is more than a little bit hypocritical of him.

Regarding the OP, probably, but I'm fine with that. The Latter Days Saints are very often, oddly, some very nice people, but they still belong to a creepy cult. I'm with Hitchens on this point. It is perfectly legitimate for a voter to decide not to vote for someone on the basis of an aversion to the candidate's beliefs. As for me, I wouldn't vote for any Mormon, any Southern Baptist (much less a preacher), any Orthodox Jew, any Catholic who held strictly to Vatican dogma, or anyone with "born again" on his/her lips, among very many others, because I don't think those people have my or humanity's best interests in mind, even though they undoubtedly think they do.

And while I'm on the subject, of all the categories covered by discrimination law, the one least deserving of inclusion in the list is religion, since it's (arguably) the only category in the list over which a person exercises choice. A Satanist, for instance, has every right to choose his faith, but that right does not extend to demanding that no one draw any negative conclusions about him as a person on the basis of those beliefs. No, I don't think religion should be removed from the list, but it is worth noting that religious organizations are the only ones given partial exemption in the observance of anti-discrimination laws, an exemption granted on the basis of their freely chosen beliefs. (e.g., many states with such laws allow churches and small property owners the right not to hire or rent to homosexuals or other people living in sin.)

[igotthisguitar]

NBC Battles To Keep Kucinich Out Of The Debate
Tue Jan 15, 12:51 AM ET

The Nation -- Some principles are worth fighting for: like the cherished right of television networks to decide who is and who is not a legitimate candidate for president.

NBC Universal Inc. is a major media conglomerate. And major media conglomerates have traditionally been able to police the parameters of presidential politics. Any affront to this order of affairs is a threat to the ability of corporations to define the American discourse.

That's what is at stake as NBC fights to limit the amount of information Nevada Democrats have available to them before they caucuses on Saturday to choose delegates to the Democratic National Convention. So the network has announced that its crack legal team will work through the night to overturn a judge's order that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich be included in the last pre-caucus debate between the Democratic presidential contenders.

On the day after the New Hampshire primary, when New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was still in the race, Kucinich, Richardson, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards were invited to participate in the debate scheduled to be televised on MSNBC from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Debate organizers wanted Richardson in the forum and knew that they could not exclude Kucinich, who was running ahead of the New Mexican in several national polls. So they grudgingly contacted the Kucinich campaign, which participated last week in initial planning discussions for the debate.

But when Richardson dropped out of the race on Thursday, the network yanked the invitation to Kucinich, who has stirred up past forums -- and distinguished himself from Clinton, Obama and Edwards -- by calling for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, advocating for the impeachment of members of the Bush administration, and even discussing the damage done to the political process by media monopolies.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/45270507;_ylt=AiKAV3.N2LO2vXRfbdOrAOADW7oF

[anabolina]

Hey now, Romney is awesome and I reckon he is discriminated against not so much by media or liberals who probably think all Christian religions are similarly evil, but by the Bible Thumpers who cannot conceive of electing a Mormon to be President. Bit of a bummer that