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.
This getting really sad ...
Try and read
She said nothing about YOU! How vain.
Try and read
She said nothing about YOU! How vain.
Sorry, I should have copied everyone.
So now are we going to have a discussion on the “Secret Cave”?
TRY AND READ! THERE ARE TWO SLAMS IN THERE AGAINST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS!
The anti-Mormon mobs (which unfortunately are a lot of evangelical Christians Saundra Duffy #379 5/29
The Times may be a liberal newspapers, but are not likely composed of disgruntled ex-members and paranoid evangelicals. asparagus to degaston 36 posted on 06/11/2007 2:08:21 PM MDT by asparagus
ping to #1587
don’t you read UG is the expert on this!
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Um, is it okay on Tuesdays, then?
And why accuse me of bad mouthing Mormons anyways when Mormons bad mouth Jesus by saying he is Satan’s brother?
The Generation that sees all those things come to pass?
It hasn’t happened yet, has it?
You sure it wasn’t the tanning booth origin business?
And what was it with all those men, dressed as Quakers and 10 feet tall who live on the moon?
Did they WELCOME Neil Armstrong or what?
I didn’t know “evangelical” was a church.
“Are you allowed to look at the 1908 McLellin collection? “
The kinderhook plates would also be a good one.
http://www.xmission.com/~country/reason/kinder.htm
Or the 1830 and 1837 versions of the Book of Mormon, with thousands of changes.
Here are some of the changes between the 1830 and the 1837 Books of Mormon. To check out any of the changes just go to http://www.inephi.com/Search.htm and confirm it for yourself. Anyway this lists changes, some quite significant:
http://www.josephlied.com/changes.html
Here is the actual text of the 1830 Book of Mormon, to compare to the current text:
http://www.carm.org/lds/1830bom.htm
It takes more work, but the Mormons may trust the inephi site better than a christian apologetics site . . . but the verses will show the changes against current books of Mormon, and on very critical issues like the nature of Christ, his relationship with the Father, etc.
http://www.inephi.com/Search.htm
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