Sullivan: Romney and Mormons get a pass?

[_Morley]

Andrew Sullivan:

Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama had never attended Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago and had decided to attend services, and proselytize for, a black separatist, nationalist church that refused to allow whites to participate in crucial religious services because white people had been condemned by God for their iniquity in the ancient past and had been for ever marked white so black Americans would know instantly to keep their distance. In fact, the definition of white in this black supremacist church was just one drop of white blood in a black person. It was Nazi-like in its racist precision and exclusion. Whites were denied the rites that made a person a full member of the church. Even blacks with a tiny strain of white DNA were kept from full participation.

Imagine further that backing this racist church was not a youthful folly on Obama's part, but a profound commitment - that he went on a mission abroad to convert Christians to a new religion based on black racial supremacy, and has often said that the most important thing in his entire life to this day is a church whose sacred scripture declares white people to be cursed by God for their past sins - and the sign of this curse is their white skin.




LINK.

[_Fence Sitter]

Obama has a white mother. I get the analogy but still...

[_Bob Loblaw]

White separatist church?

And in case Sullivan hasn't noticed, the priesthood ban has gotten a lot of press over the last few months. The idea that the press has been easy on Romney is, well, delusional.

[_Morley]

White separatist church? : rolleyes:

And in case Sullivan hasn't noticed, the priesthood ban has gotten a lot of press over the last few months. The idea that the press has been easy on Romney is, well, delusional.

I don't think Sullivan watches Lawrence O’Donell, but he apparently does think just that.

[_lulu]

In the US, there are still things white people can get away with that Black people can't.

[_Kishkumen]

In the US, there are still things white people can get away with that Black people can't.

Indeed, and that is the valuable point Sullivan has made here.

Yes, Lawrence O'Donnell has behaved shamefully regarding Mormonism. The man is clearly a bigot.

But I will say this: I will never take a Jeremiah Wright complaint seriously again.

It is one thing to support a pastor who talks tough about America; it is another to revere uncritically a theocratic prophet who prepared to go to war against America with real soldiers and real weapons.

[_thews]

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