Posted on 09/16/2012 1:15:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That's a worrisome message for the nation's first African-American president, who can't afford to lose any voters from his base in a tight race.
The pastors say their congregants are asking how a true Christian could back same-sex marriage, as President Barack Obama did in May. As for Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon nominee from a major party, congregants are questioning the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its former ban on men of African descent in the priesthood....
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No. They are not wavering. They will go for him at 94%. Book it.
His issues statements and the Republican Party platform are both Pro-Life and pro-Traditional Family. If he wavers after being elected president, then we go after him. On the other hand, Mr. Obama will kill a baby that was born alive and feels that everyone should be able to marry. With a second term, I expect him to come out for polygamy and lowering the age of consent. But you go ahead and keep throwing up flak at Gov. Mitt Romney so that Mr. Obama slides into home. My FEMA camp is less than a mile away, so they’ll just march me there instead of sending a truck. Do you know where yours is at?
Yes, but 94% of twenty millions and 94% of fifty millions are two different things. That’s what might happen with the gay marriage flap.
They’ll always be conflicted until they decide what they are — AFRICAN-Americans, or Americans. If someone calls himself African-American, I consider him a racist and not in tune with this country.
Again Romney's RECORD on abortion and gay-marriage are bad. Anyway it is pointless to argue all that at this point. We were not looking for a perfectly pure candidate... just someone who was even moderately conservative. The hyperbole of the "perfect candidate" and "purists" e.t.c are just tired and overused. You are not winning anyone over.
Very well cling to your emotional ignorance and keep propagandizing for Obama
You can explain to God one day your actions. However, you will not be able to claim to him you were not warned about the results of your actions.
Your obnoxious Rombattery is not helping at all with those of us who are going to hold our noses to vote for Romney. Not helping at all. He’s a flawed candidate who wavers a great deal on core conservative issues. Do not invoke the name of God in condemnation of anyone who recognizes this fact. You have no idea how badly this comes across.
What is emotional ignorance?... calling a spade a spade? Romney is the candidate to go up against BO. He is a lot better that BO. However, lets not attribute qualities to him that he has not earned yet.
I think many of them will in fact stay away from the voting booths. That’s going to hurt Obama.
Black "chrstians" are followers of Martin Luther King Jr. and unorthodox liberal Protestant who rejected many orthodox chrstian tenets of belief and accepted all the liberal "higher criticism" of the Bible. How many of the rest of the Black clergy do as well?
By rejecting the importance of super-rational taboos in favor of a purely rational morality, the Black Church has shown itself not African at all, but a continuation of the eighteenth century European "enlightenment." So much for their alleged opposition to "western civilization!"
If Hilter and Stalin were up in an election against each other, I’d vote to replace the one in power. Constant turnover is the only way to keep either from becoming too powerful.
Anyway, you can disagree with me... we will just agree to disagree. I am not going to argue with you, as you're are one of my Palin friends. :-)
It’s time to decide which means more: your skin color or your Lord.
I’ve never had any love for Governor Romney, but when the choice comes down to either him or Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, a man dead-set on destroying my country, the country of my birth and whose uniform I proudly wore, there is no contest. And that is the choice. No third party or write-in candidate is going to be sworn in next January.
I’ll take it, though I would prefer conservative blacks wake up and leave the Dem Party.
I compare it to having a choice between Hubert Humphrey and Joseph Stalin. Both are “left-of-center” but anyone with a brain can see which one is preferable.
Imho, Obama hates and seeks to destroy our country. Romney, while flawed, is an American.
I do agree with your post there.
I don’t see what your two posts have to do with my observations about the Black church. Perhaps they were addressed to me as a mistake?
These folks need to be reminded that there is no religious test for holding public office in the USA.
There are plenty of good reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney (NONE of which outweigh the fact that he is not Obama, btw), but the fact he is a Mormon isn’t one of them.
Even Obama’s despicable faux Christian religious views do not actually disqualify him (although were he a Republican or even a white Democrat they would have), his communist beliefs do.
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