Tom Ostrom's Aug. 28 letter to the editor, about Brian Williams' supposed bigotry in an NBC report on Mormonism, was rather ironic. Perhaps if Mr. Ostrom had gone online to check out what folks thought about this report, he would have found that a significant number of viewers considered it a "fluff" piece at best.
While Ostrom is quite right in stating that the Constitution bars a religious litmus test for candidates, it is my prerogative as a voter to use any personal litmus test I choose concerning elected officials.
The Mormon Church is an esoteric or a gnostic entity by its own choosing. It does not reveal its finances. It fudges on its true membership numbers. It keeps non-Mormons out of its temples where marriages take place. It performs baptisms by proxy for the dead — a practice that has irritated Israel to no end involving Holocaust victims.
People have a right to ask questions about Mormonism, but to his credit, Williams didn't get into any of that.
Roger Bass
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Rochester
