I’ll ignore the Mormons when they start ignoring me

Another opinion piece about how it doesn't matter that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a Mormon.  I wonder if we'd be hearing the same thing is Romney were a Scientologist. How about if he were a Muslim?

I do think it's interesting that Mormons are supposed to be given a "get out of politics free card" when they inject themselves into politics to a massive degree in an effort to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of us.  It's the political equivalent of what Mormons do to our dead - they secretly baptize dead Christians, Jews, Muslims, you name it, to the Mormon faith without the permission of the dead's living relatives.  The Mormons secretly baptized President Obama's deceased mother.  They even promised Jewish leaders years ago that they'd stop baptizing dead Holocaust victims, but they didn't stop - they kept doing it.

(My favorite is the Mormon excuse for trying to steal the souls of our dead.  You see, they explain, they give the dead a chance to say "no" before baptizing them.  And guess what?  No dead person has ever stood up and told the Mormons to stop, so the dead consent.  I'm not kidding.  That's their excuse.)

It's a rather in your face religion on the spiritual and political front (the Mormons are credited with singlehandedly stealing marriage away from millions of gay Californians with their massive financial support of the bigoted Prop 8). So, pardon me if I bristle a bit when told that I'm supposed to ignore Mitt Romney's religion when all the while Mitt Romney's religion is refusing to ignore me.