The Death of Imagination

One thing this election has really highlighted to me in multiple contexts is that open anti-Mormon sentiments are politically acceptable in a way that antisemitism and anti-Catholicism currently aren't. It seems to be about where the latter was around the mid-20th century, or maybe earlier. (Mutterings about Romney may have, if anything, treaded closer to Al Smith than JFK.) Not just legitimately treating them as political foes, but questioning their ability to act as members of a democratic society rather than as the brainwashed minions of the Pope^Wthe Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. I've likewise seen suggestions that their uncanny ability to organize effort to have influence on an issue important to they beyond their numbers (without it even being suggested that they're going outside the law) somehow constitutes cheating.