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My response (I wrote this while writing my first post for the blog, so there's some overlap):
"[Romney] didn’t mention that Mormons think the Bible embraced by evangelicals is riddled with error, or that the Angel Moroni gave a new, improved rewrite of Scripture to Mormon founder Joseph Smith . . ."
Quite simply, Romney did not say these things because Mormons do not believe them. Mormons believe the Bible to be the word of God, and church members in the U.S. use the King James version, the same version used by millions of other Americans. The further scripture given to Joseph Smith does not replace the teachings of the Bible, but is used alongside it. It appears that this statement comes from the editors of the THE WEEK and not from the article by Mr. Wolfe, as suggested by this article. Mr. Wolfe's article is much more balanced.
Quoting Christopher Hitchens in the last two articles about Romney clearly shows an anti-Mormon bias on the part of the editors of THE WEEK. Shame on you for supporting such sensationalist journalism. Such practices would not be tolerated by the media or the public if certain other groups were the subject, but for some reason off-handed Mormon bashing is still acceptable.
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