“Mormons and the Trump Proposal”

A writer on Mormon history lays out some of his concerns:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865643612/Mormons-and-the-Trump-proposal.html?pg=all

And I might add that, even today, Mormons may well be more vulnerable to federal religious discrimination — if the government is ever allowed to discriminate according to religious affiliation — than many other groups.  According to some studies (see, for example, here), members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are more popular among the American public than atheists and Muslims, but less popular than Jews, Catholics, Evangelical Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus.

So it’s time, yet again, for one of my favorite passages from Robert Bolt’s great play A Man for All Seasons:

William Roper:  So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More:  Yes!  What would you do?  Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More:  Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?  This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s!  And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?  Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!