<div>Doug Henwood wrote:<BR><BR>> <<A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3</FONT></A>><BR>> <BR>> In her look at Gov. Mitt Romney's (R-MA) Mormon religion, the Los  <BR>> Angeles Times' Elizabeth Mehren gets Ted Haggard, president of the  <BR>> National Association of Evangelicals, to say that evangelicals are  <BR>> "appalled" by customs such as marrying people after they have died  <BR>> and converting the dead. LINK<BR>> <BR>> More Haggard: "We evangelicals view Mormons as a Christian cult  <BR>> group. A cult group is a group that claims exclusive revelation. And  <BR>> typically, it's hard to get out of these cult groups. And so  <BR>> Mormonism qualifies as that."<BR>> <BR><BR>In a world of wacky religions, the Utah Mormons really do stand out a <BR>bit--<BR>the special underwear; the secret rooms in the temples; the unvarnished<BR>racism in the Book of Mormon; the battle of good and evil between the<BR>spirit-babies in heaven; and, not least, the notion that good Mormon<BR>men get to be God of their own planets someday.<BR><BR>Were I a conspiracy fan, I would think that Mormons invented <BR>Scientology,<BR>perhaps the only religion to involve hydrogen bombs in its creation <BR>myths,<BR>to make their own religion seem a bit saner.<BR><BR>--tim francis-wright<BR><BR>******************************</div> <div> </div> <div>Tell us the story about the "white worm" now.  I mean, wasn't a "white worm" involved with Joe Smith's epiphanies?  </div> <div> </div> <div>Best,</div> <div>Mike B)</div><BR><BR>Read "Penguins in Bondage":<br>http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/<p>  <hr size=1>Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com">Make PC-to-Phone Calls</a> to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.