Time to set aside one more prejudice

Barry Cleveland, publisher and editor of the Carmi, Ill., Times, writes in his op-ed column about Mitt Romney and the fact that many Americans will refuse to vote for him simply because he's a Mormon. "I'm a Democrat," Cleveland writes, "and I'll be picking from among Hillary, Barack, John and the others when I step into the voting booth Feb. 5. And even if I were a Republican, I'm not at all sure that Romney would be my man. But I think it's a shame that so many Americans reject him out of hand just because of his faith. I hope you're not one of them." He also talks about the LDS Church in general, and suggests that "in my experience, Mormons are very much like the rest of us: most try to be good citizens, good parents and providers, and they try to do what's right." To read the entire column from the Carmi Times Web site, please click here.