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Baptised and raised a Mormon until I was old enough to make the decission to stop going to church. (around 15-16).
I was encouraged to go to all my friends churches as a youth and see what was going on there for myself rather than speculate.
All I will say is a know many very good if not great Mormons(my father being one of the greatest and most selfless men I have known or known of). Far from what they are projected to be by media and speculation. I can't remember a single year of my young life (4-12 or so) when we did not have someone living in our home that was in need. Home was isolated Alaska and folks tended to look out for one another(even if you hated one another). I remeber when moving to Missouri how my parents had several Pentacotals over to the house to do laundry and have a meal as their own families had rejected them for their beliefs.
Like so many I find the business of religion to be sickening. It makes it easy to not attend and to point fingers.
In the past several years (mainly since my daughter was born and I remembered I did not have to be such a selfish prick) my religious and political views have changed greatly. I realize that neither organized religions nor politicians are that interested in my or the people of this worlds general well being and that it is incumbant upon ourselves to look out for each other.
So... to answer the question I do have faith and since I've come to understand that it is not found at a church or in one denomination or another it no longer clouds my political views.
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