By basing themselves on a single text with a single author, both offer a clear and coherent point of view, and provide answers for questions left unanswered in the standard Bible (detailed descriptions of Heaven and Hell, for example). Both set out a clear set of rules to govern believers. Standard Christianity and Judaism, on the other hand, have a variety of points of view embedded in their multi-author scriptures, and provide much more fodder for debates over what the “rules” and “teachings” are (and whether there truly are “rules” as such).

Both were rather progressive when they originated, but by pinning themselves firmly to the then-progressive ethics they introduced, both have become associated with conservatism as time has passed.

But most of all, in America, most of the people who would discriminate against Muslims would also discriminate against Mormons. That’s probably what Miriam was thinking of.

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This is how I feel. We’re beyond the era of small government and individual rights, its untenable in this age. If we actually reduced government to that point, we’d get more Republican belly-achers than we would know what to do with. The current GOP is not one of the libertarian-minded or fiscal conservatives. I’m going to quote from the same West Wing episode: the current Republicants want to “reduce the size of government, make it just small enough so that it can fit in our bedrooms”.

The Republican war on minorities makes me happy to say that I live in Canada. Even though we have a douchebag Reformer leading the country, my marriage and reproductive rights are mostly intact.

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Just say no.

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