Is That Legal?

It seems that only Mormons and Religious Scholars seem to even acknowledge the Past prejudice against Mormons.

It seems odd to me as well, that someone who is currently enduring a form of prejudice, (Mormon can't be President) would appear to have such strong Anti-Semitic feelings that he'd want to let everyone know it up front!

It's like saying, "I don't like that you guys won't vote for me because of my religion, but you know what, I understand because I wouldn't vote for a Jew!"....Who knows though, maybe he thinks the Jews are the ones that are saying they wouldn't vote for a Mormon even though the Evangelicals and Southern Baptists have told him to his face.

I know that anti-mormon prejudice existed, and still exists today. But at the same time, I'm always a little leery of discussing prejudice against a religion in the same terms we use for prejudice against a race.

I mean, there's a fundamental difference between a person who claims to hate judaism, and then launches into a diatribe about hook noses, and another person who claims to hate judaism, and then launches into a historical analysis of the more important religious claims of the judaic faith.

It would be wrong to vote against Romney because he's a member of a cultural group in Utah that for some reason you hate, but what about voting against Romney because you think that people who believe transparently silly religious ideologies shouldn't be presidents?

ELM: Careful, Patrick. In what sense is Joseph's Smith's discovery of the tablets in a cave in upstate New York more "transparently silly" than the Virgin Birth, or the burning bush?

I honestly had no idea Ford was a anti-semite until recently and I would conclude that most Americans would agree with me. Everyone knows Ford as the great innovator of American industry. This is pure and simple a hack job by liberals to show how inconsiderate he is but when you think about it why would he hate Jews or any other religion?

It's true that Mormons are one of the most persecuted religions today so why would he turn around and post this about Jews? I happened to know some of Romney family and from them and other impressions, I've come to the clear fact that Romney is NOT a hater. It's just not in his nature. This is a distracter to take down the greatest player in this political game for not only the republican nominee but the presidency.

ELM- Objectively, its not. Subjectively, the recent origins of the mormon religion make it much easier to debunk.

This will sound strange, but in the case of the Mormons, the religion is slowly developing into something resembling an ethnicity. It's probably different where you are, but in the rural west, certain surnames are readily identifiable as Mormon, and a Mormon can often be spotted even by sight. There's kind of a look about them, if that makes sense.

Then, too, the LDS tend to be a tight-knit community, and seldom marry outside of it, which also makes the commparison to Jewishness stronger.

I very much doubt that Romney made any mental connection between the Ford museum and anti-semitism. Aside from Ford's reprehensible attitudes about Jews, he is the most prominent success story in the state of Romney's birth.