New York Times Columnist Mocks Romney’s ‘Magic Underwear’

Not voting for Romney is "bigotry"?

That's a new one.

You're so predicable when you don't have an answer. Instead of admitting you were wrong, you resort to dodging, bluster and insults. It's your "code" for "Okay, I was wrong."

And the first time I seek Sokar saying he won't vote for a candidate who doesn't hold the same views as his own on religion, I'll tell him the same thing I told you. If you can give me a link to where he has already said it, I'll do it now.

But the sexism, misogyny, and racism, is aces with you.
Neato.

That's what amuses me. It used to be that Mittens being a Mormon was weird and scary. Now that he's pretty much the Last Best Hope to Save America From The Obama, being a Mormon is awesome.

I've had family members in the Mormon church for as long as I can remember now. They and their friends have always been good people, deeply involved in their schools, communities, and country. They also happen to be pretty darned conservative so I'm sure that's what really gets the NYT's goat and gives its columnists a pass on making fun of people's religious traditions.

Wonder when the retroactive forsaking of the "dum dum dum dum dum!", episode of South Park will begin....

If they have, I haven't noticed it, and I've not hidden the fact that I'm LDS in the slightest.

Before anyone asks, my personal views on church doctrine, however, aren't in lockstep with Salt Lake's.

That's pretty much what this shit boils down to, here.

Romney's a liberal now?

I think you've got that a bit backwards - that is, if by "here" you mean "wordforge".

I don't know if I'd be making fun of these things if I had the last name of "Blow"

He's sure as hell not a conservative.

The joke that's been making the rounds lately:

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, "How's it going, Mitt?"

They are Mormon ceremonial under garments (think 19th century long johns) which Mormons are supposed to wear according to the book of Mormon. Many Mormon loonies attribute all sorts of magic powers to their underwear such as "I was in a car accident but I survived and I think it's my magic underwear which protected me", others claim a mugger tried to stab them but the blade deflected off of their magic underwear thus saving their lives, essentially anything good that happens to some Mormons they claim it is because they wore their magic underwear and when ever something bad happens to someone not wearing magic underwear they claim it happened because they didn't have their magic underwear on.

In short, it's utterly ridiculous and laughable and just another great reason to make fun of Mormons for collectively being a bunch of drooling idiots. Religion rots the brain.

Religious beliefs are on the table if you are going out there saying how everyone should be more like you, at that point saying "well if you look closely, you're pretty batshit insane so maybe we shouldn't..."

For the most part though live and let live. If someones beliefs hurt you or they are trying to push them onto you then by all means fight back. Otherwise let people light their candles and cast their spells and wear their magic underwear in peace.

BTW there is a massive difference between using religion to fill in the gaps for things we don't yet have a testable explination for, the old "God in the gaps" theory, and simply claiming religious beliefs are still valid even though we can scientificially conclusively prove they are factually incorrect.

Valid due to not being able to be falsified: There is a god, he has angels, when I pray he hears me.

Invalid because it can be falsified: The Earth is 6000 years old, men used to ride dinosaurs, Noah put two of each species on his ark, and yes wearing magic underwear saves you from car crashes.

If someone can't understand that basic principle then I don't know what to say other then they're an idiot.

Only on alternate Tuesdays. This:

is more like it.

Although why Mitt would ever be going to a bar... Maybe it's the Bar Association?

It was a salad bar.

with green jello