As someone with Mormon ancestry (though I was raised by protestant UCCist parents), I know all about the Mormon practice of "baptism of the dead."
Anyone who is a fan of "South Park" knows that only Mormons go to Heaven, which is why every time Satan kicks Saddam out of Hell he keeps coming back -- 'Where else was I gonna go, Detroit?'. The problem is that Mormonism is a fairly young religion, and no one born prior to Joseph Smith's "revelation" in the 1820s could have heard The Word of the Angel Moron. Thus, anyone born before Mormonism spread The Word would be doomed to Hell, except that Mormon theology has a loophole wider than Versace's sphincter -- "Baptism of the Dead."
Mormonism is all about family -- the largest family possible -- and all family members will meet up in Heaven after they die. Since one's ancient ancestors can't go to Heaven because they lived and died before Smith's divine revelation in 1823, they must be "baptized" in Moron's name, so that they will be waiting in Heaven to receive their 21st-century descendents when they die. As a result, Mormonism is absolutely *OBSESSED* with genealogy, the reason I am so familiar with my own Mormon heritage.
Of course, I don't believe any of this. But the important thing here is that leftards -- Zepp included -- denounced certain Republican presidential candidates for suggesting that Mormons were not "real" Christians. I recall Zepp quacking something about "bigotry" and "religious intolerance," though as Zepp now concurs, Mormon theology has NOTHING in common with conventional Christian theology. Mormonism may DESCRIBE itself as "Christian," but then so does Scientology and Aum Shinrikyo (the Japanese nerve-gas cult).
My Methodist grandmother (who married my Mormon grandfather shortly before WWII) used to tell me of visits from his sister and other siblings from Colorado. While they were visiting, my grandmother washed their clothes -- all except for their "holy underwear," which my grandmother was forbidden to wash because she wasn't a "saint." This "holy underwear" is more commonly referred to as "temple garments," and is required to be worn when entering a Mormon temple.
While Mormon temples look very much like Catholic cathedrals, they are VERY, VERY different. A Catholic cathedral is just a large church that can seat thousands for a single service, whereas a Mormon temple is actually an office building with thousands of rooms, each hosting a wedding, baptism of the dead, or whatever other ceremonies Mormonism requires to be conducted within temples. Another major difference is that not just ANY riff-raff can enter a Mormon temple: only those with "Temple Cards," which the receptionist checks against a computerized database to verify that their donations are paid up (Mormonism levies a MANDATORY 10% income tax on members, and those who don't pay don't get into the temple, much less go to Heaven)
Many leftards and rightards alike insulted Jon Huntsman's Mormon heritage, but nobody asked the obvious question: whether he possesses a Temple Card. Mitt Romney probably does have a Temple Card, making him a "real" Mormon, but he obviously wants to downplay it -- given that evangelical ("real") Christians consider Mormons to be "Satanic." (I'm Satanic myself, and I resent the comparison of a mindcontrol cult to a philosophy that encourages free thought.)
I predict that the same leftards who previously stuck their progressive noses into the Republican primary campaign to denounce critics of (Huntsman's) Mormonism as "bigots" will become the *BIGGEST* anti-Mormon bigots once Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination. It doesn't take Miss Cleo to predict this, since I myself personally saw the most vicious, insulting, anti-Mormon propaganda displayed at the Proposition 8 protest rally in San Francisco in 2008. (The stoopid leftards kept attacking polygamy, unaware that the "mainstream" LDS sect that funded Prop. 8 officially renounced polygamy a century before.) Ironically, they wound up alienating the splinter FLDS sect -- which still practices polygamy -- and which would have made a natural ally in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage).
But all in all, Mormons are decent people. While their beliefs are silly and many can be personally annoying, I doubt any of you would feel fearful of a group of young Mormon men behind you as you walked down the street. Property values do not decline as Mormons move into a new neighborhood. Even the most devout young Mormons are not inclined to blow up airplanes and skyscrapers in Moron's name.
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[Try slamming the door in a Muslim missionary's face.]