After posting this and hearing Dave's comments about it--that's cmdavi_70 --I realized that it is his status as a prominent writer/intellectual that makes this all the more offensive.

Plus you know, Ken Jennings is also a mormon and hasn't said anything like this publicly. Even though he is mormon, he accepts the fact that it shouldn't be a law to beleive as the mormons beleive. Even if they DO have sort of a "more heaven for me" attitude.