Mitt Romney: Obama Campaign Promises As Good As Kardashian Wedding Vows

[Bucky]

24. Let's take these one at a time, Mr Stupidity

Bigoty: I know of nothing Romney does that's prejudiced against any demographic group (except the middle class, of course). Maybe you could enlighten me. So far, in a field of Newt's racial dog-whistles, Paul's toxic newsletters, Rick Perry's "brothering" of Herman Cain and Santorum's general mysogyny, Romney's not really stood out for hatred (other than the usual Republican contempt for the Bill of Rights).

Bigamy: Romney's one of the few Republicans this year who's only had one wife. He is a member of a church that officially denounced polygamy long before he was born. If you have even a shred of evidence to show he's a bigamist, please share.

Polygamy: See above.

Which brings us back to bigotry: See, the only reason to bring up the topic of polygamy is because of something that Mormons used to do more than a century ago. It makes as much sense to attack Mormons for polygamy as it would to attack Democrats for slavery. After all, 150 years ago, people called Democrats supported slavery. But, of course we changed our minds, just as the mainstream Mormons did over a century ago.

Democrats are at least a political group. Mormons are a religion. So when you start slurring a Mormon for polygamy, based on nothing more than his religious affiliation, you are engaging in religious bigotry. You're dragging religion into a political discussion and using it, without any basis in fact, as a platform for spewing hatred and lies. That is the very basis of religious bigotry--not just pre-judging, but actually slurring a religion based on lies.

You are a bigot, Warren. This is not an insult; it's a factual description of your behavior. I don't know why you choose to throw out the usual liberal standards of (1) opposing religious prejudice and (2) seeking to wall off religion from politics. But I do wish you'd leave the hate-mongering to the Republicans. It's not like Romney doesn't have a dozen other areas on which you could attack him. But of course doing so would require leaning facts. I supposed resorting to religious bigotry does keep one from having to learn facts.