Posted on 12/21/2006 11:05:18 AM PST by Utah Girl
Someone who refuses to consider voting for a woman as president is rightly deemed a sexist. Someone who'd never vote for a black person is a racist. But are you a religious bigot if you wouldn't cast a ballot for a believing Mormon?
The issue arises with Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's as-yet-undeclared bid for the 2008 Republican nomination. Romney would not be the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to run for the nation's highest office. He follows Orrin Hatch (2000); Mo Udall (1976); his father, George Romney (1968); and not least of all Joseph Smith, who ran in 1844 on a platform of "theodemocracy," abolition, and cutting congressional pay. Despite a strong showing in the Nauvoo straw poll, Smith didn't play much better nationally than Hatch did, and had to settle for the Mormon-elected post of King of the Kingdom of Heaven.
With his experience as a successful businessman, Olympic organizer, and governor, Romney has a better chance, but he may still have to overcome a tall religious hurdle. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 38 percent of Americans say they'd definitely consider voting for a Mormon for president. Yet many analysts think LDS membership is not an insuperable obstacle. Various evangelical sects continue to view Mormonism as heretical, non-Christian, or even satanic. But because of their shared faith in social conservatism, evangelical leaders seem open to supporting Romney. As far apart as they are theologically, Mormons and evangelical Christians may have more in common with each other anthropologically than they do with secular Americans watching Big Love on HBO. The remaining skepticism on the far right seems to have more to do with doubt about whether Romney has truly and forever ditched
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No one questions whether Romney is really a LDS adherent. Nor did anyone question whether Kennedy was really a Catholic.
Clinton-the-rapist, OTOH...
No one questions whether Romney is really a LDS adherent. Nor did anyone question whether Kennedy was really a Catholic.
Clinton-the-rapist, OTOH...
"I'm waiting for the part where you show how Sen. Reid's decisions are a direct result of his LDS faith. (Seems pretty unlikely, since most LDS are quite conservative and mostly honest.)"
Okay, Harry Reid causes the conversion to Mormonism of one Dario Herrera. Dario takes bribes from land developers, a no work PR job for HUD, money from Titty Bar owner Michael Galardi. Dario's council seat is taken over by Reid's son Rory Reid so Dario can run for Congress with Reid's backing and so Rory can work water rights for 200 desert acres in Searchlight. Dario gets indicted and convicted (represented by mob lawyers), and as he is leaving from sentencing is picked by a Reid aid.
If you watch how Reid conducts his affairs, you know he thinks he is infallible - a God on earth. That's why he claims Bush is a liar etc.
So, the end result of Reid's Mormonism is that he feels he is so enlightened that he can do no wrong, and has supported Dario Herrera and many others in an unbridled quest for power.
Now, if you are too stupid to understand where this is going, you'll have to just wait for the book that details all. Reid's corruption is all overlooked by the Mormon church.
I have more examples, but I get tired of repeating myself.
Phony outrage by a Commie Leftist in Slate.com
Mitt has a lot of charisma, and they are scared.
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