Mormon bishop gets flak after calling out Harry Reid for supporting gay ‘marriage’ and abortion
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-NV, is the most powerful Mormon in American history . But one LDS bishop -- the equivalent of a Catholic priest -- has been forced to backtrack on recent comments denouncing Reid's faith as inadequate. According to Mark Paredes , Reid's leadership of the Democratic Party shows that he is "a Mormon who does not take his faith seriously." Paredes cites Reid's support for same-sex "marriage," his lobbying for the casino industry, and his support for abortion as reasons to doubt the sincerity of the longtime senator's faith. And, most critically, he cites Reid's leadership in a party that he says explicitly opposes several of the LDS Church's moral teachings. He wrote: While the 2012 Republican platform is almost unreadable, at least it does not contain statements that directly contradict LDS teachings. This could be one reason why 11 out of the Mormon Church’s top 15 leaders – and the only ones