Posted on 03/31/2007 11:40:02 AM PDT by Reaganesque
There has been much controversy here at Free Republic about a Mormon running for President. Mitt Romney has been questioned about his faith and many people here have posted things here expressing concern about what they consider to be "weird" doctrines. Today and tomorrow, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is holding their 177th Semi-Annual General Conference in which the leaders of the church address the membership around the world directly.
In light of the many misconceptions regarding the LDS (Mormon) church here on FR, I offer the following links for those who have questions and concerns about Mitt and his faith. Conference is a great opportunity for those who know little about the Mormon church to have a few questions answered; to get your answers straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Therefore, here is a link to the broadcast website:
April 2007 LDS General Conference
There are audio streams available in multiple languages and video from KSL TV in Salt Lake City and KBYU, Brigham Young University's television station. The video links are in the first paragraph at the top of the page.
The next session begins at 4pm Eastern/3pm Central. Tomorrow's sessions will be at 12 noon/11 am Central and 4 pm Eastern/3 pm Central. Sessions are 2 hours long.
It is a public broadcast so no passwords or registration are required.
That is what I think!
You can explain your opinion to anybody else anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
It was simply wrong IMHO, and it was a serious faux pas by Mitt, and certainly his handlers for not talking him out of it.
I'm not going to be talked out of that position. I live here, and I'm pissed off about it.
Do you want to argue that point with me? OK, sure, just take a number.
The point of that health care program was to get people off of medicaid.
To save all that money being used in medicaid
Click on #2 Redstate for the health care plan!
http://www.votemittromney.us/mp3.asp
Since no one can stop abortion, why make it a political issue? Can you explain that? Countless American women vote for democrats over abortion and the environment.
The latest Al Gore surge on global warming is aimed at nothing less than voters.
It wasn't Government sponsored health care, it was insurance covered health care.
Mitt should have let the democrats here sign off on this nonsense.
I'm OK with Mitt being the next President. I like the idea. He'd be good.
Certainly he is better than anybody else who is currently likely to get a shot at it.
It would be a mistake to defend this horrible Law that he signed off on.
I understand that he is being falsely labeled as a flip flopper.
Still, he needs to rid himself somehow of this baggage.
It will kill him in the primaries, but curiously not in the general election.
He's taken/taking a great gamble here.
If I were a so called "red stater" I would not vote for him.
Are we suddenly going to do away with gays? They are a very solid part of our country now. Are you some sort of bigot?
NOPE. Ronald Reagan did not beat us over the head with his faith, did he?
No.
I've already studied LDS.
Every voter counts. Since you will not be able to overturn abortion, why not get their vote and work on them with logic?
Orginally abortion was done because of the taboo somehow that has been forgotten and moved to women's rights and a bunch of other B.S., instead of the stigma a women at that time suffered which today is no longer the case!
How these lairs on the left twist this thing and the ones that are upset about this, are over the hill and can't have children and the younger generation no longer cares one way or the other, only when the devilish old hags whisper in their ears!
I believe it will get over turn and I believe if Romney was president that he would select judges like Bush did to get the job done, our big optical is to make sure the House and Senate are in line with this agenda!
You're partly right. Only by putting real judges in the courts can we reverse this "law".
However, the issue can serve as a quick way of weeding out a lot of people who proclaim wisdom, but don't know right from wrong. Of course, you can be anti-abortion and still lack that ability, but it filters out most of them.
Someone who cannot discern the two should not be in the White House.
No.
But, in our risen state, we shall also be judged of God and based on our acceptance of Christ's atonement for sin, our eternal destiny will be determined.
In order to return to our Father in Heaven and "go to Heaven", we teach that we must, as a free will decision of our own, accept Christ's atonement. No other path will do, nothing else will suffice...He must become our personal Saviour.
Most of christendom teaches that there is indeed a pre-set condition for the Atonement of individual sins to be effective, and that is acceptance of the Lord's atonement and sacrifice.
The LDS Church teaches this. We believe that a person who sincerely does so will also have the desirte to do as Christ taught..."if ye love me, keep my commandments"...but it is critical not to get the horse before the cart in that regard. Christ's atonement saves, and then we follow His will.
Anyhow, these tennants are basic Christian tennants and though interpretation and knowledge about other principles varies, the essential teaching that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Redeemer, and that we must accept His sacrifice and redemption and atonement in our lives in order to return to God, and that a person who sincerely does so will take upon them His countenance and image and try to live as he lived...that is the same, and that is the essence of what it means to be a Christian.
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