Beck must really be wearing out his welcome in the Mormon church...After all the Church leadership chose Harry Ried as “Mormon of the year”.
...what Harry Reid told BYU students Oct. 9, 2007: “I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it,” he said. Reid made that remark to over 4,000 such BYU students, faculty & administrators, who warmly welcomed Harry Reid to their campus in October, 2007: At the end of his speech, Reid earned a standing ovation from a small percentage of the crowd and applause from the rest. (Deseret News, Oct. 10, 2007)
The BYU-sanctioned event provided Mormon political & religious leaders a common platform to attack Evangelicals: Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. “They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right.” (Deseret News, Oct. 10, 2007)
What is the point of your reply?
There is no such thing as “Mormon of the year” chosen by “church leadership”. The statement is just devoid of any basis in fact.
Are your comments about BYU supposed to lead one to believe that BYU is a hotbed of the Democratic Party and that the church is endorsing Reid? You seem to be employing the usual tactic of attributing the comments made by an individual, speaking as an individual, with no official status or capacity, as though they represent an official church position. “I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it,” he said.” What Reid said in a public forum as one of many guest speakers invited over the course of the year by the university (most universities do this too) are his opinion alone and clearly not any official church position. Mormons are among the most consistently conservative and republican of voters as attested to in a recent Gallup poll. To infer otherwise is disingenuous. So because Reid made his comment regarding EVs it now makes the whole event a “common platform to attack evangelicals” as though there were a whole list of speakers who followed speaking with the same type of distorted vitriol I normally find applied against the Mormons by EVs. CFR on your assertion that the entire event was a platform designed to attack evangelicals. Reid is a politician and he is playing on the disappointment many Mormons feel when attacked for their beliefs by EVs as a way to attack the Republican Party. Furthermore, by your logic I ought to be able to infer that Fred Phelps and members of the Westborough Baptist Church are typical Baptists and therefore whatever they say is “official” and representative of all Baptists. I wouldn’t do that because I can recognize the difference between one individual or organization and the entire body.
I’m not sure what the point or relevance of your post was, perhaps you felt the need to establish your anti-Mormon credentials on FR. Anyway, if I want to observe a ‘common platform to attack” from anyone I’ll wait for the annual “Trot out the professional anti-Mormon” guest speaker down at the local church. Or better yet, I’ll go to the FR Religion board.
They are merely a subset of the whole.
Dingy Harry is merely doing what the FOUNDER of MORMONism did; only not quite as inclusive.