Posted on 05/22/2007 1:25:14 PM PDT by TChris
The Rev. Al Sharpton spent Monday touring LDS sites, discussing his recently unearthed ancestry and exchanging notes on Christian service with Mormon leaders. By afternoon, the Pentecostal preacher who drew ire for comments he made about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith said his subsequent visit to Salt Lake City had been a valuable experience.
"This visit was not about politics. It was not about controversy," Sharpton told a group of reporters at the LDS Family History Library. "It was about our trying to learn about each other as believers in God and Christ, to find common ground . . .[and] work together for the good of humanity."
Hosted by Elder Robert G. Oaks of the church's First Quorum of Seventy, Sharpton visited the LDS Church's Welfare Square, particularly the humanitarian center, which collects clothes, food and medical supplies to distribute around the world. He toured the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, the Conference Center and the Family History Library, where volunteers described the church's vast genealogical holdings and programs. Utah-based Ancestry.com has discovered Sharpton descended from slaves owned by the forefathers of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Especially since the rules changed, and he has a soul now.
Huh. He knocked on their door instead.
Did they tell him his apology wasn’t accepted and that they would would threaten his advertisers until his radio show was taken off the air?
Just curious.
I watch the Glenn Beck show and he regularly has that piece of crap on his show. I think that LDS should have told Sharpton him to get lost. All this does is continue to portray Sharpton as a legitmate reverend when he is nothing more than a race pimp.
Not that this matters, but I think Glen Beck is a Mormon, too.
???
“Hey, these cats can help me with my reparations claim! They’re not so bad after all.”
“It was about our trying to learn about each other as believers in God and Christ, to find common ground . .
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Sharoptin has always believed that God and Jesus Christ were his next meal ticket and would get him hotel rooms he didnt have to pay for.
I dont know what the Mormon Church believes.
I wonder if Al will teach the Mormans how not to forgive like he did not forgive Imus.
Obviously, a must-see stop for Big Al!
“Not that this matters, but I think Glen Beck is a Mormon, too.”
Yes, he is.
I can’t understand why he kisses up to Sharpton, but most likely it is a directive from Beck’s employer, CNN.
Oh man...big mistake on their part...
Rev. Al has a soul? Surely you jest.
Glen Beck needs to quit preaching, and just do the things that a normal talk show host does on his show.
He went to far this morning and accused Dr. Dobson of saying things that he did not say. Dr. Dobson called the show and reamed Glen a new one! Go Dr. Dobson.
I see him on GBlecks tv show too.
However Bleck was popping neck viens over this unlike his usual body language of laughing like “duh”.
I don’t expect he’ll be having Rev. Al back anytime soon.
What did Glenn say he said? I just caught the tail end of GB this morning and heard him tell Dobson that he was glad that his apology was accepted. I heard Dobson say that Rudy and McCain are on his never list.
I never took him as being a kiss up to Sharpton.
He debates him in Glen’s spoofy kinda goofy way and then as a gentleman shakes his hand and thanks him for being a guest like all other guests who appear on his show.
The one thing that is getting old about Becks show is he always brings up the fact that he is a recovering drunk.
Which is great but sometimes highlighting the good to often will cause a man to fall.
If his show tanked today he might feel let down enough to be seduced into drinking again.
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