If Romney loses, I'd say you're fully on the mark.
If Romney wins, we don't know who the Mormon "prophets" might be from 2013-2020. (They go by the calendar, which usually bumps the oldest in line to first in line...and if one of them happens to have a flare up of senility as he orders Mitt to do something, who knows?)
Keep in mind these older men were children (or were born shortly thereafter) when their parents were taking the following oath -- thru 1926 or 1927 -- in the Mormon temple:
"You and each of you do covenant and promise that you will pray and never cease to pray to Almighty God to avenge the blood of the prophets upon this nation, and that you will teach the same to your children and to your children's children unto the third and fourth. generation."
Source: Oath of Vengeance
This oath was removed from Mormon temple rituals by 1927.
Those children, those 3rd & 4th generations -- are alive together now...
Why would Mormon leaders turn their backs on the very sacred vows made by their parents, their grandparents, and their great-grandparents?
Because they are actually viewed as about as sacred as yesterday's Kleenex? If the LDS has a vice it's in the direction of waffling, not of being doctrinaire. Based on what has happened in other liberalizing denominations, if the oath is not simply forgotten it will be re-interpreted and spiritualized out of having any practical meaning. Jihads are inconvenient and messy, especially when you're thinking in your heart of hearts there isn't even an "Allah" to get all exercised about.
Still, the real root of the problem, in the eyes of Akins, is not even that Mormons are polytheists, but that they are the only polytheists claiming to be Christians. And, in the words of Macfarlane, they will do anything to accomplish their goal. --Tom O'TooleThis is an older post, but regardless, you might find it interesting. It drew the strong ire of a Mormon lawyer (whose comment has since been removed).
Barack Obama - DNC
• Born of a white American mother and a Kenyan father.
• Ancestors on his father’s side sold slaves into America.
• Father abandoned them and his mother married an Indonesian Muslim who raised him in Indonesia as a muslim until he was ten year old.
• Mother abandoned him and he was raised in relative ease by his grandparents. (Went to High School at the esteemed Punahou Academy)
• Did not experience segregation.
• Was befriended and tutored by the communist, Frank Davis.
• Went to Occidental college, studying Political Science.
• Met a Pakistani friend while in college and traveled to Pakistan, befriending rich interests there.
• Was able to transfer to Columbia University and finished his Political Science degree.
• Became a Community Organizer for ACORN.
• Joined Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Church in Chicago, finding unqualified poor for mandated housing loans they could not afford.
• Went to Harvard Law School and became editor of the Harvard Law Review and got his law degree.
• Became a legal advisor to ACORN.
• Was befriended and tutored by the extremist/leftist Bill Ayres (wanted as a domestic terrorist for years).
Is very progressive/leftist minded, pro command economy, and globalist in NATURE
• Continued to attend Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, Black Liberation Church for 20 years
• Ran for and won Illinois Senate (Served three terms).
• When interviewed by NPR stated that the Constitution was an obstacle to his progressive views.
• Ran for and won the US Senate (served less than one term).
• Voted “present” numerous times on legislation in Illinois and Washington DC.
• Ran for and won the Presidency of the Unites States, being essentially unvetted by the press who made him into a “rock-star” figure.
Indicated America was in need of “fundamental change” to correct her many inherent flaws.
• Proposed and implemented massive federal bailouts and stimulus to bring down unemployment. They failed but were used to pay off and reward crony supporters.
• Presided over federal takeover of large segments of auto, banking, lending, and other industries.
• Presided over the largest deficit spending in national history.
• Accumulated the largest national debt in national history.
• Using policies and programs established by his predecessor (which policies he opposed while in the Senate) the US military found & killed Osama Bin Laden.
(But had his earlier desires and policies been adopted, he would never have had the opportunity to give the order).
• Assisted rebel groups in Egypt and Libya to overthrow leaders in those countries. In both cases the rebels turned out to be extreme, fundamental islamics.
(The Arab Spring turned into an Islamic Caliphate...while the one true pro-liberty rebellion was ignored by Obama in Iran as they were slaughtered).
• Has presided over fuel prices almost tripling while canceling energy projects and pipelines that would create tens of thousands of jobs and lower costs.
• Is seeking re-election to a 2nd term as President so he can continue this “fundamental change.”