Mormon Sen. Harry Reid calls for compromise, warns against religious extremism

Charlottesville, Va. • Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Saturday echoed Pope Francis' remarks to Congress, calling for more inclusion within religion and urging compromise over extremism.Reid, a Nevada Democrat and one of the highest-ranking Mormons in public office, said taking a hard line with regard to faith can lead to dangerous results, stretching a religious belief to the opposite of its intention."In the name of Catholicism and absolutism, we had the crusades, horrible things don