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.
Looks like I got 1776 on July 2nd!!!
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.So, if we confess him, and I for one do, then he will call us his, what else is there, but to obey his commandments because we believe on his name?
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Gave you time to grab a quick cup of coffee! ;)
I meant to ping you to this one, my apologies.
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Why do Mormons Lie?
Statement made by John Taylor, prophet, seer and revelator of Mormonism:
“We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit of belief; therefore... I shall content myself to reading our views of chastity and marriage, from a work published by us, containing some of the articles of our Faith. “Doctrine and Covenants,” page 330, .... “we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband.” (Three Nights’ Public Discussion..., published by John Taylor, Liverpool 1850, photocopy in Sharon Banister, For Any Latter-day Saint, Fort Worth 1988, p. 289)”
THE TRUTH:
At the time of this discussion, John Taylor was married to eleven wives in addition to his first (legal) wife: Elizabeth Kaighin, Jane Ballantyne, Anna Ballantyne, Mary A. Oakley, Mary A. Utley, Mary Ramsbottom, Sarah Thornton, Lydia Dibble (Hyrum Smith’s polygamous widow), Ann Hughlings, Sophia Whittaker, and Harriet Whittaker. He had also been married to Mercy R. Fielding Smith (Hyrum Smith’s widow), but the marriage had ended in divorce. (listed in D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power [Vol. 1], Salt Lake City 1994, p. 597)
QUESTION:
Will Mormons here admit Taylor was a liar?
FOR MORE LIES:
http://home.teleport.com/~packham/lying.htm
Perhaps this practice of lying amongst the LDS heirarchy has been adopted by Mitt. Perhaps that is why he is seen as a flip-flopper.
Yes CC every damn 13 million Mormon are liars all us liars decided to lump to gather and call ourselves Mormon.
we hate truth and worship doodangs, that why we rip off one another and don’t help our neightbors and vote for Democrates and we want Bill nad Hillery back in the white house it is one of the secrets that Mormons are ploting in is going on in the temple across the nations as we speak!
there are posters hung all over of hillery and Bill clinton not only that we plotting to take over all the cornfields to save the planet, and we taught our magic underwear to march in the parade on the 4th of July!
And the reason Mormon eat green jello is because we really are from the plant kingdom we tried to hide our true form!
and anything else you can think about the Mormons yep we did it we sure did it because all of the anti mormons said so and that makes it so, we did it!
Absolutely laughable! The dictionary definition of “facts” and yours seem to be diametrically opposed.
Sincerely
you guys.
uhhhhh uhhhhhh, resty used a bad word!
“damn”
Go wash out your mouth now young girl!
I said the Mormon heiarchy lies. I didn’t accuse YOU of lying. Sometime the lay members don’t even realize the truth of the history of the Church, the beliefs or the practices.
In the case of members unknowingly repeating a lie, I forgive them....it isn’t their fault. Resty you only repeat what you’ve been told or what you’ve discovered. I don’t hold you responsible for the lies of Gordon B. Hinckly, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor OR Mitt Romney.
So did John Taylor lie? Can you address THAT issue?
I just said every damn mormon lied can’t you read?
So you don’t like the word damn but pimp is alright with you!
Thanks....I already knew that.
We all lie. Thank goodness for repentance.
I view Mormonism as a Christian heresy, but not as a cult and certainly not as a disease.
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