Fred Karger in Utah: Anti-Mormon meets homophobe

Not many people were aware before today that one of the country’s leading anti-Mormons has been running for the Republican presidential nomination. Fred Karger, whose signal electoral exploit so far is having beaten Ron Paul in Puerto Rico, was the brains behind the “Californians Against Hate” group that targeted the LDS Church for its opposition to gay marriage during the Prop 8 campaign. He has criticized Mormons and the Mormon Church on many occasions, and his recent campaign trip to Utah was a good indication of why few people in the country have faith in his ability to exercise good judgment.

In an effort to challenge Mitt Romney in the upcoming Utah primary election (sure to be a nail-biter), Mr. Karger chose to spend a few days in the state. Being Fred, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit southern Utah, a bastion of Mormonism, and publicly call on the Mormon Church to stop funding efforts to oppose state-sanctioned gay marriage. Some folks down in Utah’s Dixie took offense at his message, most notably the wife of the county’s Republican Party chairman. Following her husband’s meeting with Karger, she sent him a