So much for religious tolerance. The LDS or Mormons, got used like an ugly chick for their money during the Proposition 8 issue. $25 million dollars and their grassroots efforts were very good for the “Chrisitians”. Glenn Beck, a mormon, came out with a book and was interviewed by Focus on the Family. Focus seems to have gotten a lot of crap for having that on their website and pulled the interview off the site. They are now getting flack for doing that and they have come out with a statement:

We can, and do, gladly cooperate with friends outside of the evangelical heritage on common causes; but in no case do we intend to alter our clear distinction as unwaveringly grounded in evangelical theology.

Glenn Beck has this to say:

Whatever your beliefs about my religion, the concept of religious tolerance is too important to be sacrificed in response to pressure from special interest groups, especially when it means bowing to censorship. At a time when the world is so full of fear, despair, and divisions, it is my hope that all of those who believe in a loving and peaceful God would stand together on the universal message of hope and forgiveness.

The issue is the following: Many Christians view the L.D.S as a cult, but others are starting to accept them as another religion – some going as far as calling Mormonism a fourth Abrahamic religion. They reject the Trinity and believe in many gods, and most importantly they believe their prophet, Joseph Smith, was “the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam,” according to the Mormons’ History of the Church.

Formally listed under “cults and sects” by the Southern Baptist Convention, Mormonism was later categorized among “newly developed religions” on the North American Mission Board apologetics page.

There are differences in the beliefs, very strong and very different. With the difference stated, and with Focus on the Family pulling the interview, making it perfectly clear that they view the L.D.S, or Mormonism, as a false religion, why accept their money? Does this mean that if a Satanic group were to donate money to the Christians about a cause, would those funds be accepted? That question is a resonable one because this is exactly what they just did, since they consider the L.D.S a false religion.

I see several issues here: Judging. Hypocrisy. Greed. Would I have expected any less from a “Christian” like James Dobson? No. So, Glenn, your money was good. Your products, you and your religious faith, are not good.

If you truly believe in the Bible and you wouldn’t just grab on to bits and pieces, then maybe you would have followed the advice found in 2 Corinthians 6:14 “Unequally Yoked” and you wouldn’t seem like the users that you are.