Trying to blog while on a business trip is proving almost impossible, but - in the interest of being even-handed in my criticisms of Mormons - I wanted to
drop this on you:
Actress and Green Party presidential candidate Roseanne Barr told The Daily Caller that voters should be concerned about presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith.
Barr told TheDC that Mormonism should be an election issue “only if you have a problem with a guy having his finger on the nuclear button who thinks Jesus was hanging out with the Indians and that the Romneys will be running their own planets in the hereafter.”
Romney is the first Mormon to secure a major party’s presidential nomination. His religion became a political issue during the Republican primaries when pastor Robert Jeffress, a supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy, denounced Mormonism as “a cult.”
President Barack Obama’s campaign has repeatedly said that Romney’s religion is “off limits” for campaign mud-slinging. The notoriously unfiltered Barr, however, does not share Obama’s qualms.
“The religion? Don’t get me started — I grew up in Utah,” she said. “Look, lots of Mormons are nice people. I’m sure a whole big crowd of Mitt’s grandmothers are looking down proudly at his run for the White House. But if people knew more about him and how he made his money, and maybe his religion, which is more socialist than anything Obama’s proposed, they wouldn’t want him anywhere near the Oval Office.”
Now, first, the idea that Obama or Romney can declare any subject "off-limits" for the American people during an election is laughable. Listen up, you assholes:
WE are electing YOU - not the other way around - so you don't dictate the criteria we do that on.
Second, as much as I hate agreeing with Roseanne Barr, it should be obvious I've been saying the same thing she is - especially the part about living with Mormons being
completely different from the in-passing experiences so many parade in their defense (the "I met a Mormon and he was so nice" bullshit,…) Such people know nothing -
especially compared to this atheist - and are leading their country to the slaughter in a silly effort to assert otherwise.
That said, when it comes to Roseanne's charge that Romney "thinks Jesus was hanging out with the Indians," it looks like the Mormons just might have received a *little*
science to back that up:
Israeli geneticists have found that a tribe of Native American Indians may have a genetic mutation typical of Ashkenazi Jews.
The genetic mutation is a harmful modification in the BRCA1 gene, prevalent among Jews of Eastern European descent, which increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
O.K., if you read the story, it becomes pretty clear the Mormons have got no case, but it's enough to further their delusions and, I thought, worth a mention. Man, are they pathetic.
I'll keep posting daily, but the further
vetting of Mitt Romney will (probably) have to wait until I get back home this weekend. If I can return to it sooner, I will, but my schedule isn't completely my own right now, so - though I'll keep posting -
TMR will have to take a back seat to other concerns until around Friday or Saturday. I'm sorry, but it honestly can't be helped.
