Never attribute to Devil-worshipping conspiracies what opportunism, emotional instability, and religious bigotry are sufficient to explain

While many religious conservatives may have qualms with aspects of Mormon theology, they have even greater problems with religious bigotry. Any candidate that chooses to attack his faith in a personal fashion will surely run the risk of a backlash.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms but the devil slapped on the genitals.

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry,

If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.