Stories like this are still depressingly common:
http://janariess.religionnews.com/2015/03/09/mormons-evangelicals-sigh/
Quite a number of years ago, a woman of my acquaintance was slated to give the invocation at a Republican Women chapter meeting in southern California. A few days before the event, however, she received a telephone call. The caller hemmed and hawed, obviously embarrassed to deliver her message. “I’ve just been told,” she said, “that you’re a . . . um, that you’re a Mormon.” “Yes,” said my acquaintance. “I am. Would you prefer that I not give the prayer?” “Oh, thank you! Thank you!” replied the relieved caller.
I wouldn’t have made it so easy. I would have made the caller come right out and say that, as a Latter-day Saint, I couldn’t be allowed to deliver an invocation at a secular citizens’ gathering.
Prejudice and intolerance shouldn’t be permitted to hide behind a veneer of false civility. Bigotry should have to identify itself openly.
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