Religious Question

Breaking news: Conservatives are upset with liberals. I can't believe it either. But apparently, certain evil liberals out there are religious bigots.

This was bound to come up because Mitt Romney happens to be a Mormon. Which, let's face it, is a funny religion. And you know they were just itching for the liberal Jew media to bring it up. But I'm a little perplexed by this story.

Here's what happened. Joan Walsh, who might be the dirtiest of all the dirty liberals, tweeted this:

"Romney's saving the soul of America - so he doesn't have to baptize us after we're dead"

This is in reference to the fact that Mormons sometimes baptize dead people who weren't Mormon, in order to get them into Mormon heaven. Well, not the real Mormon heaven, but Mormon heaven adjacent.

They've taken to baptizing a lot of Jews, including Daniel Pearl and Anne Frank. Poor Anne Frank. Just when she thought the Nazi's were through with her and she could rest in peace, along comes Brigham Fucking Young.

And Mitt Romney isn't just being lumped into all of this because he's Mormon. Supposedly Mitt and his wife even baptized her very atheist, very anti-religion father.

Joan Walsh has been getting hammered on Twitter, and she even apologized.

Now my question is: is it religious bigotry to mock that Mormon tradition?

No it isn't. Well, I'm glad I cleared that up.

Oh, maybe I should expand on that...

I guess it's wrong, to some people, not me, but to some, to mock the whole magic underwear thing. Or Glenn Beck. Or polygamy. Or Utah. Or the fact that they killed Howard Hughes. I get that. That is wrong.

But if you have a "tradition" that involves taking innocent dead people and imposing your religion on them, then you give up your ability to cry bigotry. You're not just innocently practicing your religion. No, you've crossed outside your religion's bounds into the outer world where you are no longer free from criticism.

And this whole thing comes just as they are also claiming that Obama is imposing on their religious freedoms. You know what really imposes on someone's religious freedoms? Summoning them from the grave and forcing them to cheer for BYU!

I have this funny feeling that Sean Hannity wouldn't be too pleased if his dear ol' dead Grand Pappy Hannity was converted to Muslmism by Barack Obama. Yeah, something tells me he might become anti-religion real quick.

I'm very disappointed that Joan Walsh caved and apologized. The Mormons are the ones that should be apologizing. At the very least for giving us Katherine Heigl.