Posted on 06/23/2007 1:28:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) SALT LAKE CITY -- Mitt Romney said Saturday that criticism of his Mormon religion by rival GOP presidential campaigns is happening too frequently.
“Clearly, any derogatory comments about anyone’s faith—those comments are troubling. The fact they keep on coming up is even more troubling,” Romney said during a fundraising trip in the home state of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Mormon church is one of the fastest-growing religions and claims about 12.5 million members worldwide. But many evangelical Christians in crucial primary states such as Iowa and South Carolina consider the faith a cult.
Romney’s remarks follow an apology from GOP rival John McCain’s campaign for comments about the Mormon church allegedly made this year by a volunteer.
Also recently, Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, issued a similar apology for a campaign worker’s e-mail to Iowa Republican leaders that was an apparent attempt to draw unfavorable scrutiny of Romney’s religion. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani apologized after the New York Sun noted that a campaign aide had forwarded to a blogger a story about unofficial Mormon lore. Legend has it that a Mormon would save the Constitution, the story said. The campaign aide passed the story along with a note: “Thought you’d find this interesting.”
Romney said in a large presidential race there always will be some volunteers or workers who cannot be controlled. But he said the difference between derogatory comments that originated from the McCain campaign and others is that the Arizona senator has not personally apologized to him.
“In the case of Senator Brownback and Mayor Giuliani ... they called immediately. They each spoke with me personally. I don’t have any issue with that at all,” Romney said.
He said McCain “can do whatever he feels is the right thing. There’s no need for me to suggest how people respond to things that go on in the campaign.”
Tucker Bounds, a McCain campaign spokesman, said the McCain campaign has already apologized.
“It’s a very sincere apology. There is absolutely no place for those type of comments in our campaign,” he said.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, said he had not spoken with McCain since the last presidential debate, on June 5.
Romney used a fundraiser hosted by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller to criticize the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. It banned unregulated, unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to national political parties and federal candidates.
“The bill ought to be repealed,” he said. “It’s been the wrong course for American campaigns.”
Romney said he favors unlimited donations as long as they are immediately disclosed on the Internet.
Romney was attending fundraisers in Salt Lake City and in Logan on Saturday.
Oh??
This is what YOU typed:
Mormonism doesn’t -destroy- faith. It -supplements- the faith a person already has.
Oh? Was 1087 addressed to YOU?
Well then you may just want to Hie Thee to Kolob!
John 6:28-29
28. Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
29. Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
JST evidently adds this:
"Except on your deathbed."
18 My object in going to ainquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all awrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those bprofessors were all ccorrupt; that: “they ddraw near to me with their lips, but their ehearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the fcommandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the gpower thereof.”20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself alying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, bmother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
And the LDS organization has YET to say otherwise!!!
I’m reminded of a joke about a foo...
Ya gotta get past the secretary, if you waNT TO SEE THE BOSS!
But will YOU?
This depends on what the DEFAULT number of pages is set for.
Likewise...
I’m sure there are some here that believe that if they keep denying the same thing over & over again that somehow it will become true as well.
I think you LIKE them! ;^)
I've not heard ALL choirs that exist, but from what I HAVE heard, the MTC is very, very good!
Yuppers. Your salvation depends on it.
Ask of God. See if you get heartburn.
(Or you could click on my scrfeen name and find I'm probably at least, oh, 15-16 at minimum.)
So tell me Elsie, do you believe & subscribe to the Nicene & Athanasian creeds?
;)
If you have a problem with the Lord’s description of the various denominations (not people), well, I guess you better take it up with Him.
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve . . .As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
You asked for the Biblical basis for paying tithes as if it didn’t exist. It does and you shown the scripture where we are commanded by the Lord to pay tithes. Nothing in your scriptures refute the principle of paying tithes. In fact, it doesn’t even mention tithes. Indeed, the paying of tithes is also contained in Hebrews 7 where it talks about paying the tenth part.
Best wishes.
Daniel,
Good question, which we’ve already discussed at
length. You may be able to search it.
best,
ampu
“So tell me Elsie, do you believe & subscribe to the Nicene & Athanasian creeds?”
How much do those subscriptions cost these days???
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