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W. Deitrich br> Roswell, GA /p> p> SMALL-D MORMONISM br> Re: David Holman's Romney's Mormon Problem : /p> p>I will expect an onslaught of religious bigotry from the left if Romney has success, but to see it from conservatives so soon is really disheartening. No religion is perfect. We all worship God as best we can. If Mormon-baiter Holman can find 50,000 polygamists in Utah, he's been doing a lot of cloning. br> -- Doug Gibson br> Ogden, Utah /p>

One reason for welcoming Mitt Romney's candidacy is the opportunity it will create for Mormons to discuss their fundamental Christianity with Christian friends and neighbors. I have no quarrel with the attention called by David Holman to unconventional aspects of Mormon doctrine. (He calls those doctrines novel, but teachings that have been available for nearly two centuries now might be less new than they are different.) No one will try to argue that LDS teachings fit snugly into mainstream of Protestant theology. Yet, Holman does millions of Mormons a disservice when he misrepresents their beliefs, as where he asserts that the Church's teachings on abortion sound more like a political compromise than a well-reasoned moral teaching. The page of Gospel Principles to which his article provides a link describes abortion as an abominable sin -- that sounds like an uncompromising moral stance to my ears. You can be assured that Mormons regard abortion as the murder of unborn, and that the Church as an institution works harder to save the lives of unborn children, through adoption, than any other church in America. If Holman wants to argue that you can't be Christian and accept exceptions for rape and incest, for example, he's going to be excluding as many Protestants and Catholics as Mormons from his version of the True Faith.

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