Liberty's choice of Romney leads to angry student response

[davidthegnome]

21. I hate being forced into this position but...

Sadly, I have to stand up for Romney here. This is wrong, there are plenty of perfectly good reasons to not want Romney to come speak at your school - but his Mormonism is not one of them. As a (non-practicing/lapsed/whatever) Catholic, I frequently in the past had Protestants tell me that Catholicism was not real Christianity... that we were heathens for worshiping Mary. Heck, I've even had Mormons tell me that Catholicism is a twisted, despicable religion for reasons that I found amusing, rather than offensive.

Generally speaking, Catholicism and Mormonism are right behind Islam as the religions most hated by the far right. They (conservative protestants) constantly complain that they are attacked/insulted/condescended to because of their religion, yet they are far more guilty of doing that than most. While generally any mockery or insulting of Romney amuses me, this time it doesn't. These "students" are religious bigots and assholes. It's not just this particular University, it's these so called "Christians" all over the world who can't stand it that anyone who has another view... another religion, might possibly have a right to it and not be a damned to hell heathen.

I don't much care for religion or for Romney, but this is bigotry based on ignorance and stupidity and should be pointed out and denounced.