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I think it's probably a fitting in issue as well as what is taught (or not taught as the case may be) at home.
Growing up, my siblings and I were really ostracized and tormented because we weren't Mormon. I don't think that all the kids fully understood why we were the abuse receivers..they just didn't want to be the ones getting it so they gave it instead. As we got older and this mentality went away a little, the ignorance aspect showed up. My brother dated a girl his senior year who was Mormon (who wasn't?). At the end of the year she found out and her response was this :"But, but you don't drink! Or smoke! Or swear or do drugs...you're a GOOD person!"...as if she had been taught that all non-Mormons were drug addicted, hell raising degenerates and that was what gave them away.
I can only apply this in a limited form, because the type of hatred that mal presented is beyond what I've dealt with, but I would guess it came about in a similar way as what I said.
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Formerly Medusa
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