Posted on 08/08/2007 10:20:46 AM PDT by rface
"My religion is for me and how I live my life," he declared. "I don't impose all my faiths and beliefs on you." For example, he noted that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn't approve of booze and that he doesn't drink. But he won't be pushing for a new constitutional amendment banning alcohol......
(US News) For more than a year, there has been talk inside Mitt Romney's presidential campaign (mittromney.com) that the GOP candidate would give a JFK-ish speech explaining his religion--he's a Mormon--and how it would or wouldn't affect his presidency.
Well, it wasn't what they had in mind, but an unscripted, passionate, and argumentative Romney let loose last week during some off-air discussions with Iowa's WHO Radio host Jan Mickelson. It was caught by the radio studio's cameras. It's must-watching and hearing for anybody interested in the issue, as Romney, like JFK before him, brushed aside any concerns that he would let his religion rule his administration.
"My religion is for me and how I live my life," he declared. "I don't impose all my faiths and beliefs on you." For example, he noted that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn't approve of booze and that he doesn't drink. But he won't be pushing for a new constitutional amendment banning alcohol.
His staffers thought it was so good that they posted it on a YouTube page (youtube.com/watch?v=-G9hydflwEQ). Campaign spokesman Kevin Madden tells me that "it shows Governor Romney at his best: tough, passionate, confident in his convictions and engaging. It could be titled MittTV Unplugged." Madden adds that the reaction has been good so far.
"Once we reviewed the interview in full, we thought that it showed Governor Romney in an unvarnished setting that folks would be interested in seeing. Judging from the reaction, supporters and potential supporters are really responding in a positive manner."
You need to plod thru the D&C's and the Pearl of Great Price as well.
The BoM says barely ANYTHING about how the modern LDS organization operates.
A liberal Democrat then...would be likened to a conservative Pubbie now.
That was my point.
Strong faith? How can that be, when he says to him it (his faith) is irrelevant?
You both refuse to answer simple questions.
It's pretty well documented.
Why the hostility?
And, as far as a bit of phoniness and self-aggrandizement ... well, that comes with the job description "politician"
You did write that above, right?
I asked that of you earlier...as it seems you admitted that "politician's" are a bit phony at times. Which would mean you believe this "at times" in Romney too. Right?
But then you write this...later: "I am admitting nothing of the sort, Orange. Phony, how?"
Care to call me the spinner again?
I'm just asking questions....
Be of good cheer!
like a lot of old time Baptists, and other fundamentalist Christian.... regardless of the truths found in John.
I suspect that they could use the Book of Mormon and just use modern English to rewrite it and make it more readable......at least until the plates are revealed again
I missed the part where he said his faith is irrelevant.....I only caught the part where he said his faith is important
I don’t see why, or how, a person’s religious beliefs have anything to do with the job in the first place.
MORMONISM
A letter to Miss Kate Field:
HARTFORD, March 8, 1886.
DEAR MISS FIELD, — Oh, dear me, no. That would be the same as saying that because you differ from me upon the rights and equities of a subject, I am at liberty to hold a “poor opinion” of you for voicing your sentiments in the matter.
Your notion and mine about polygamy is without doubt exactly the same; but you probably think we have some cause of quarrel with those people for putting it into their religion, whereas I think the opposite. Considering our complacent cant about this country of ours being the home of liberty of conscience, it seems to me that the attitude of our Congress and people toward the Mormon Church is matter for limitless laughter and derision. The Mormon religion is a religion: the negative vote of all of the rest of the globe could not break down that fact; and so I shall probably always go on thinking that the attitude of our Congress and nation toward it is merely good trivial stuff to make fun of
Am I a friend to the Mormon religion? No. I would like to see it extirpated, but always by fair means, not these Congressional rascalities. If you can destroy it with a book, — by arguments and facts, not brute force, — you will do a good and wholesome work. And I should be very far from unwilling to publish such a book in case my business decks were clear. They are not clear now, however, and it is hard to tell when they will be They are piled up with contracts which two or three years — and possibly four — will be required to fulfil. I have even had to rule myself out, and am now an author without a publisher. My book is finished and ready, and I have spent nearly ten thousand dollars in its preparation; but it is pigeon-holed indefinitely, to make room for other people’s more important books. (In this line of business we generally publish only one — and never more than two — books in a year.) I think I could write a very good moral fable about an author who turned publisher in order to get a better show, and got shut up entirely.
Truly yours,
S. L. CLEMENS
As always, Romney says whatever suits him best at the time, but he said something like that very recently (I don’t recall the exact words).
It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
What did JFK ever do to fix the mess FDR left for us all?
What did Reagan do? Nothing about the give aways. Welfare is still here. Last I heard Clinton was the one who cut welfare.
Very funny.
You are sadly misinformed because rReagan PUSHED through a number of Welfare reforms and capital gains cuts etc.
Clinton, who you admiringly give credit for cutting welfare, simply had a modicum of common sense to get out of the freight trains way when Newt and the new congress began fulfilling the mandate of the people.
Obviously, your comprehension is NOT all that good, or your memory for that matter, for it was someone else -- not me -- who accused you of spinning. Read again.
Please do not waste your valuable time with your specious calls for cheerfulness and kindly save your puerile games for somebody else from now on. Thank you so much. :-)
No seriously,...why the anger?
You seem very tightly wrapped...
Really and truthfully, I'm concerned about you. Your posting just seems so anger filled. Are you ok?
You seem to attempt to read into my posts...things that just aren't there.
Yeah..lol, you are right it was three other's that called me a "spinner"...not you. Sorry 'bout that. And fwiw, I will once again assure you, my memory is pretty good..and my comprehension is excellent.
Okay here we go again.....you wrote:
"Saying all politicians are not entirely sincere at all times does not equate with me believing my candidate to be phony."
In all humility and truthfulness....does the word "all" not mean the same thing for you, as it does for me? How does that square up?
I'm not being an ass here.....but words mean things...and I'm having a hard time figuring out what yours mean, when you say what you've often said on this thread.
ROFLOL!!
Clinton cut no such thing.....
The rapist wet his boney finger and stuck it in the wind...and then got out of the way.
Gimme a break...............
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