Posted on 08/29/2007 8:36:48 AM PDT by meandog
The confluence of Hollywood and politics continues for Mitt Romney's presidential bid, revolving around his Mormon faith.
On Sunday night, "Big Love," the HBO drama about a Mormon family, included a reference to Romney. In the scene, the family's patriarch is watching TV when a woman's voice comes over the air: "He saved the Olympics. Who cares if he lets his dog ride on the roof of his car. People are just out to get him for any little thing."
Romney has generally won plaudits for leading the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but has been criticized after a Globe profile this year told the story of how the family dog Seamus once rode in a pet carrier atop their station wagon on a trip.
Now comes word that a documentary is being filmed, called "A Mormon President," which explores anti-Mormon sentiment and features Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet killed in 1844 soon after he announced his presidential bid. "Very few people realize that Romney is not the first Mormon to run for the White House," producer/director Adam Christing, a member of the Mormon History
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I link to the trailer for the video mentioned in your OP.
The next step in the Romney/Mormon arsenal is to release a pro-Mormon video. Romney will confront his Mormonism head on, then try to convince you that Mormonism is indeed superior to mainstream Christianity.
http://www.amormonpresident.com/Small/small_video.html
I noticed the Romney comment when watching the show, but since his name was never mentioned, I assume the vast majority of viewers had no idea who the television announcer was talking about.
This makes Romney as POTUS very dangerous.
Absolutely, and if they don't like what they are reading they will run to the FR mods and have anything negative back to them about the Romulan pulled...I noticed it on a post I did on Mitt's support for a massive government funding on cancer care yesterday. All the posts from the Romulans and the ones back to them suddenly disappeared (without the ususal deleted by moderator remark. The other postings followed in numerical order as though nothing had happened. You will see the Mittwitts run faster than Mutt did from a I-A draft classification during the Vietnam war if they don't want to see their boy criticized.
While I'm not keen on Romney's squishy Second Amendment views, I do have to note that they really aren't any worse than what Bush, Santorum and other mainstream Republicans have supported in the past. I'm also not sure that Fred Thompson's membership in the Council on Foreign Relations makes him any less suspect.
And, yes, I'll admit to knowing a few Mormons, including some close friends. From what I've seen, they're probably isn't a more heavilly armed, pro-second amendment group out there which doesn't have "Gun" or "Rifle" in its name. And they tend to be far more armed and militant than me (a mere 2 gun household) about protecting that right.
Don't know why, but I suspect it may have had something to do with being on the receiving end of an "open season" law practiced on them from roughly the mid 1830's until 50 or so years later.
So if the mods are removing comments in a way NOT to see that they were removed, are they sympathizers and/or possibly LDS themselves?
And since when has criticism of ANYONE been reason to wipe out people’s comments here on FR? We criticize all kinds of different folks here. Hell, people on the left and the right get criticized. Nobody is off limits. Especially if they are a public figure.
Ping to a thread talking about censorship of anti-Mormon sentiments.
Can you ping the FIs?
Well, I don't know why it was done, I just know that it was. It certainly is reasonable to pull anything that violates the rules at FR...but to pull everything to Mitt's minions that is criticism doesn't seem quite kosher in an exchange that touts itself to be a forum.
Well, an LDS Mormon might be excommunicated, but there are other Mormon sects that exist (in smaller numbers) that do practice polygamy and say they are being true to the Mormon faith by observing polygamy.
Dateline (not my favorite show, btw) had a piece awhile ago on such a sect. The first wife gets a church wedding and a legal marriage license. Any other wives just get a church service (so they are married in the eyes of the Mormon sect they belong to, but aren’t violating any laws because technically they aren’t married in the eyes of the state).
Apparently the Boston Globe hasn't read reviews by non-mormon movie critics. The movie is pretty much universally criticized by everyone.
You ARE mormon (LDS) are you not, TChris?
Pinging the FIP to a thread on censorship of opposition posts.
I think it's the visceral fear/hatred of Romney/Mormons evident on the part of some FReepers that's interesting.
If you look at it, it's exactly the same sort of stuff Liberals spew over Bush and conservatives. Only the targets are different.
Notice my tagline. I have yet to hear of an example of anyone being harmed by Mitt's leadership. He has a history of leadership for anyone to examine, so his "dangerousness" should have produced piles of evidence by now.
Did horrible, scary things happen to Bain Capital because of Mitt? No, they just made a lot of money.
Were the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics a seething cauldron of Mormon brainwashing because Mitt took the helm? No, they were a resounding success, despite huge initial problems caused by the previous leadership.
Has the Mormon Church infiltrated and taken over the state government of Massachusetts because Mitt was governor? No.
You guys are a hoot. Mitt is about as dangerous to the country as Mister Rogers was.
FastCoyote, would you care to rebut the above statement with your detailed historical records?
That's just false.
There's no such thing as "other Mormon sects". There are Mormons and there are non-Mormons. Practicing polygamists are non-Mormons (or ex-Mormons).
Once again, it doesn't matter what a polygamist might call himself.
Just as a cross-dressing gender-confused man might call himself a woman, it just ain't so.
The term "Mormon" is a casual term referring to a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Everyone recognizes the term that way. Those who misuse it do so to intentionally smear the Church or to try and tie it to practices it has long since abandoned.
There are no "Mormon fundamentalists" and no "other Mormon sects".
Your agenda is showing through.
Why? Putting together a posse with pitchforks and torches? :-)
You LDS apologists are a hoot! Supposedly, if a Mormon practices polygamy in the celestial kingdom [right now!], he is NOT excommunicated from that "kingdom." Hence, he is still Mormon (supposedly forever!!!). What you call "ex-Mormons" is irrelevant; 'cause they're NOT "ex-Mormon" if they've earned their "Masters" degree in literal "divinity."
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