Jason Arvak

A.Sullivan have never proposed legisltation to curb or alter others’ religious beliefs or practices while groups like the Mormons have done exactly that.

This gratuitous insult against Mormons is false, slanderous, and offensive. The Mormons have never proposed a law to make their religious practices mandatory. In fact, the Mormons include religious freedom among their most basic "Articles of Faith" (basically the Mormon equivalent of the Nicene Creed -- the most basic canonical summary of official Church doctrine) -- I know of NO other religion that incorporates that principle at the most fundamental doctrinal level like that. Historically, the Mormons have been a target of government repression, not the initiators. You should read the history of the pogroms against Mormons and the "order of extermination" issued against them by the governor of Missouri. I flatly state that YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, you are just regurgitating anti-Mormon talking points. Most of the rest of the comment was agreeable until I got to this completely unnecessary slam on Mormons. Once it appears, accusations of anti-Mormon prejudice on your part are completely understandable -- if not for hatred against Mormons, why bring them up on this thread at all? You ask that we make distinctions about how some pro-abortion people are different from others, yet you make sweeping, no-exceptions hateful comments about religious people. You are personifying that which you criticize. I am both anti-abortion and pro-choice (I think abortion is immoral but that it should be legal because the state does not have a clear secular case to be made regarding its immorality). I am a former but not current Mormon (thus I am neither a water-carrier for the LDS Church nor an anti-Mormon). I condemn anti-abortion extremist rhetoric AND violence without equivocation (thus, I cannot be accused of making excuses for anti-abortion extremism). I think Fred Phelps is simultaneously an abomination and a sick joke on humanity (don't even try to insult me or anyone else here by linking us to Phelps). I say these things as a way of preempting the inevitable attacks against my integrity that are the usual response to me calling out a lefty on their various prejudices against religions and especially against Mormons. The existence of bigotry and extremism on the other side does not excuse yours, so don't even try. Prejudice is just wrong, it is not some comparative contest where you are ok as long as you have an excuse to claim that the other side is worse. You owe an apology.