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Mormons launch petition trying to stop the Tabernacle Choir singing at Donald Trump's inauguration
(UK) Daily Mail ^ | December 30, 2016 | Jennifer Newton

Posted on 12/30/2016 3:13:35 AM PST by Zakeet

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To: ThePatriotsFlag
For those here blasting the religion of the choir, what religeon are the Rockettes?

When a couple of them are standing on my porch; telling me that MY religion is wrong; I'll ask them and report back.


Howdy; Ma'am.

Are you a Rockette?

101 posted on 12/30/2016 2:46:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rebelbase
Shouldn’t this thread be moved to the religion forum?

Oh hell YES!

We sure don't want non-religious folk to be upset by the rantings of an insignificant few!

102 posted on 12/30/2016 2:48:16 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 2nd Amendment
He can always get the scientologist quartet!

Tom Cruise would jump at a chance at that!

103 posted on 12/30/2016 2:49:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gumdrop; laconic
Thanks for your defense of Mormons.

Now would you like to try to defend MormonISM?

104 posted on 12/30/2016 2:51:10 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: toldyou
One woman in the choir will not sing.

I wonder which one it will be??

105 posted on 12/30/2016 2:54:08 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zakeet
...one choir member has resigned in a refusal to perform.

Not to worry; as there are probably a lot waiting in the wings just to get a chance to sing with the choir.


https://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/about/choir/auditions.html?lang=eng
 
 
 
 

How does a singer join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

The Choir accepts applications for new singers from July 1 to August 15 every year. Before members join the Choir, they undergo a rigorous audition process consisting of three phases, which take place over approximately six months. Prospective Choir members must also be active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be recommended by their bishops, and live within 100 miles of Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Applicants must be between 25 and 55 years of age. Tenure in the Choir is 20 years or until age 60, whichever comes first.

In the first step of the audition process, applicants submit an unaccompanied recording of a song selected by the music director. The second stage of the audition, a musical skills test, measures musical ability and aptitude. Applicants with an acceptable test score then advance to the third stage, where they perform a hymn of their choice, sight-read a piece of music, and test their vocal range in person before the music director and associate music director.

Even after selections of new singers are made, the evaluation process is not quite complete. The selected singers are brought into the Temple Square Chorale for a four-month period during which they attend musical training classes and sing with the Chorale. If they successfully complete the training program, they become members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

https://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/about/faqs.html

106 posted on 12/30/2016 3:05:28 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I say supporter loosely it is better said the leader of the Mormon church was a supporter of the Bush,Romney McCain never trump faction of the republican party.


107 posted on 12/30/2016 3:36:14 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Gumdrop; Colofornian; Elsie

Not to worry...

The Mormons love the Obama’s...

In June 2008 Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham was dead dunked by the Mormons into the Mormon religion..she had been dead for more than 10 years but here was her chance for a lifetime atheist to get some religion and go to the Mormon afterlife...

She was dead dunked “baptism for the dead”,
was married by proxy to the already married father of the illegitimate Barak,
was given exaltations and honors that only the top Mormon guy would receive, allowing her to go to the top shelf of the Mormon afterlife, the so called “celestial kingdom” and have her own planet,
and was “sealed” to her children, making Barak Obama a Mormon too..and eligible to go to the celestial kingdom and be king of his own planet...

(Wont Joey and Briggie be surprised to see a black president in their lily white exclusive afterlife )

since then other Mormons have done so called “temple work” on her also...

so without paying one red cent of “tithe”, Barak Obama became the 1st Mormon president, and even better, the 1st BLACK Mormon president...

LOL

;)


108 posted on 12/30/2016 3:40:35 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Elsie

lolol

I copied her letter if you haven’t read it on Facebook. It’s long. That’s why I haven’t posted it here. Just a typical liberal who believes exactly what the media reported and can’t think for herself. Pitiful.


109 posted on 12/30/2016 3:50:38 PM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: Elsie
Sculpture of Jesus Christ Mormon Center in Nauvoo That has been glommed onto by Mormonism.

Mormon Taqqiya.

110 posted on 12/30/2016 3:53:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: toldyou
Just a typical liberal who believes exactly what the media reported and can’t think for herself. Pitiful.

Just a typical Mormon who believes exactly what higher-ups report and can’t think for themselves. Definitely not of the Berean class of folks.


Acts 17:10-11 (KJV)

10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

111 posted on 12/31/2016 4:36:28 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Colofornian
...I think he made it a high priority to focus on those distortion-minded proselytizing cults drawing away false disciples after them...
 
Ya think??
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

112 posted on 12/31/2016 4:39:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Zakeet

Mitt Romney’s still riding around on his white horse, stirring things up. He’s supposed to save the country, dammit, the prophecy says so. /s


113 posted on 12/31/2016 4:40:37 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Zakeet; teppe; Normandy; StormPrepper; donozark; Vigilanteman; bert; OKSooner; ThePatriotsFlag; ...
Say what you will about the religion; but Mormonism has some truly great musicians and singers!
 
 
 
 
Reagan Inauguration snippet
 
https://youtu.be/onFePambs68 
 
America...  A Great New Begining
 
 
 
 
 
 
The full version in the Tabernacle...
https://youtu.be/QSiVjlknuSw
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bind our wounds:  https://youtu.be/LoPRA5SHIHU
 
We can hope that Make America Great Again will resound across our land as well!
 

 

114 posted on 12/31/2016 5:16:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Howdy, are you a Rockette? Great c’mon in and I’ll play some music!


115 posted on 12/31/2016 5:26:11 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: PCPOET7

The Mormons were great supporters of Jimmy Carter until 1978 when Jimmy demanded they let BLACK men join their religious organization...

then to spite Jimmy, the Mormons voted in their usual block for the much hated Ronald Reagan...

Reagan had been hated by the Mormons since a6 least 1964 when he helped his good friend Barry Goldwater win the GIOP nomination...

George Romney was expecting to be president as he was “entitled” to be because he believed he was the Mormon white horse prophecy golden boy, but he only got 41 votes to Goldwater’s 800+ ...

Naturally acting like the high strung stud horse he was the Mexican born (yeah another foreigner) George Romney stomped out of the convention center and he and his Mormons went and helped Johnson win ...

After the November lose Ronald Reagan said that George Romney and his moderates were to blame for Goldwater losing a race that should have been won...

Teenage Willard M Romney followed Big Daddy George out of the building and George proceeded to groom his fair haired boy to bee the white horse prophecy claimant in his stead...

Ive often wondered why George ignored and passed over Willard’s older brother...would he not have been the proper heir presumptive ???

George was partly acting on the promise that one day a Mormon would sit in the White House, president and king for life...the first Mormon to run for the presidency was old Joey Smith himself, the inventor of Mormonism, in 1844...

anyhoo...forward to 2008 and Willard ran for the GOP nomination and lost to McCain...He withdrew on Feb 7 and gave a campaign speech therein starting his 2012 run...He never did get around to helping McCain or urging his Mormons to help but spent the next few months giving Gov Sarah Palin all kinds of grief...mustn’t have a WOMAN near the White House...and if its not Willard or some other Mormon who cares if the Democrats win ???

To make busy work that year the Mormons suddenly discovered they could horn in on what the Baptists were doing in California with their Prop 8...and so the polygamous Mormons spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours knocking on doors during a presidential election year...in California pretending to support one man one woman marriage..

and so they were in part responsible for McCains lose to Obama...

Then we come to 2016...well you know how that went with the golden headed flake err Mormon champion of the White Horse prophecy...

Willard can be nasty but this year he was nutso...or maybe just sounding like the liberal he is...

God put His pick into the White House in spite of all the pagan Mormons and their Ted Cruz wing of the Republican Party tried and threw against him...

If you don’t understand Nov 8 was God’s handiwork you don’t know God...

Nov 8 was a miracle and we watched it happen...

The Mormons were not a “Trump faction of the Republican Party because the Mormons are not Christians...they don’t believe in or worship or serve the LORD Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible..

Nor do they pray to the God of Israel but have they only man-god and all his god wives...

so how would they know God wanted His people to vote for Trump ???

Man looks at the outside of a man but God looks at the heart...

Sure Trump had had 3 wives but not at the same time...he divorced and then remarried...

Joseph Smith whom the Mormons worship as a god and sing about with praise songs in their religious exercises, had 40+ “wives” all at the same time..some as young as 14....he never divorced any of them..

Sure Trump is a rich business man with real estate and hotels.....Joseph Smith was rich too with real estate and hotels and a bank where he printed his own $3 bills and cheated and scammed people out of millions until he was charged with bank fraud and fined $1,000 which he never paid...I think that was one of the times he escaped from jail too...he fled to another state...

Mush has been said about whether trump is a Christian or a good enough one...The Mormons have never cared that Joseph Smith condemn Christianity and the Holy Bible and was thrown out of the Methodist Church for his immoral lifestyle (sex, drinking, stealing, etc) and then the Presbyterian Church for teaching unBiblical doctrine..

Can you say “hypocrisy” ???

etc etc


116 posted on 12/31/2016 4:57:28 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Elsie

Oh yes that choir...

the choir that refuses to sing the words “God in Three Persons, Holy Trinity” in the hymn Holy, Holy, Holy...

Christians believe in the Trinity...Mormon don’t...


117 posted on 12/31/2016 5:06:40 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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