So imagine my disillusionment over this A.P report:

DOVER, N.H. - Mitt Romney's visit to New Hampshire started on a sour note Tuesday when a restaurant patron declared he would not vote for the Republican presidential contender because of his faith.

"I'm one person who will not vote for a Mormon," Al Michaud of Dover shouted at Romney when the former Massachusetts governor approached him inside Harvey's Bakery. Romney was kicking off the second of two day's worth of campaign visits in the lead primary state.

Romney kept smiling as he asked, "Can I shake your hand anyway?"

Michaud replied, "No."

Michaud later told reporters he was not "a right-winger," alluding to some evangelical Christians who have compared Romney's faith to a cult. Instead, Michaud stated he was "a liberal."

He said he planned to vote for Sen., D-N.Y., should she win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Here’s the kicker: Yahoo is running this story under the headline, “Romney Criticized for Mormon Faith in N.H.” Just an innocent question: If someone had told Barack Obama that they wouldn’t vote for him because he was black, would the appropriate headline be “Obama Criticized for Ethnicity”?

Again, I’m not screaming racism or even whispering racism. (At least where Yahoo is concerned. The Clinton supporter in the story obviously deserves a Jacob Weisberg Bad Citizenship Award.) All I’m doing is pointing out the different standards the mainstream media allows for Mormons that it wouldn’t even think of applying to any other faith or ethnicity.

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