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Anti-Mormon bigots are now targeting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his Mormon beliefs, which are now viewed by many progressives as a transparent and recent fraud.
A June 2012 study performed by American National Election Studies (ANES) found that 43 percent of liberals would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate for religious reasons. An essential point, given how often news outlets highlight Romneys religion."
"In 1960, major media outlets refused to tolerate religious bigotry, characterizing it as bilge and calling its practitioners small-minded and prejudiced persons not representative of America. In 2012, supposedly mainstream outlets have given opponents of Mormonism a platform to call the church the Salt Lake City empire of corporate greed, obsessively labeled Mitt Romney as Mormon, and even engaged in anti-Mormon bigotry themselves. These anti-Mormon voices have been amplified by the liberal echo chamber."
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"In 1960, major media outlets refused to tolerate religious bigotry, characterizing it as bilge and calling its practitioners small-minded and prejudiced persons not representative of America. In 2012, supposedly mainstream outlets have given opponents of Mormonism a platform to call the church the Salt Lake City empire of corporate greed, obsessively labeled Mitt Romney as Mormon, and even engaged in anti-Mormon bigotry themselves. These anti-Mormon voices have been amplified by the liberal echo chamber."
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In a Sept. 9, 1960, editorial titled Negative Thinking, the Post observed of a group promoting religious bigotry: It professes to be in favor of the separation of church and state; but it is doing its utmost to inject the consideration of religion into the politics of the Nation. It professes to be in favor of religious freedom; but it argues that if a man belongs to a particular Church he is not free to become President of the United States.
Read more: JFK and Mitt: The Media