Posted on 09/19/2007 7:14:10 PM PDT by pissant
I believe this is largely correct. My sister converted to Mormonism and decided to marry another Mormon at the big temple in Salt Lake City. Nobody on our side of the family was allowed to enter the temple and my sister had to have church-appointed surrogates stand in as parents of the bride while ger real mother stood outside, unable to witness the event.
FWIW, I don't condemn the Church for this. Every religion has their rules. But I do know my mother and I know wild horses wouldn't have kept her from attending the wedding of her first-born but for the locked door of the temple that kept her out.
It was talking about LDS Church members and almost half are excluded from their own temples!
Fortunately for me, I agree with nearly all of his stances AND he makes me feel safe.
I’ve got logic and heart both covered.
I’ve been trying to get excited about Fred, but he makes it so hard. I keep thinking about Dole. Only Dole had a more spring in his step.
“I was once told that when you write an email, write it as if it would be published on the front page of the newspaper. There is always a chance that is may end up there.”
Good point!
Which makes me sad for the Christian community, as it speaks of a horrific decline. Billy Graham, God bless him, understood the difference between what is God's and what is Caesar's.
>Actually, “he managed to lead Lswrenceburg High to the state championships in basketball and football.”<
He couldn’t do it today, my friend.
I think we have a winner!
Always follow the money trail.
“my guess is someone made a little donation to this guys ministry in that last coupla weeks. someone not from the fred camp.”
Dobson first expressed doubts about Thompson several months ago, to the effect that he doesn’t think he’s really a Christian. I’m not sure how he’s gauged that, unless he’s expecting it to manifest itself through works, but everyone expresses their faith differently. Thompson might not be a Christian in the fundamentalist sense, and so some claim that means he isn’t really a Christian.
That's creepy. Secrecy is one of the hallmarks of a cult. I thought the LDS were free of it.
According to whom?
During the eight years that Thompson and McCain served together, they cast votes on 102 CQ-defined key votes and agreed on 83 of them - or 81.4 percent of the time. They disagreed 18.6% of the time, that’s pretty high considering that both are Republicans and both are considered relatively conservative. Just as an example from one year, among the instances in which Thompson and McCain differed were votes in 2002 to effectively extend a repeal of the estate tax beyond 2010, to authorize oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to postpone tougher automobile fuel efficiency standards. Thompson voted “aye” and McCain voted “no” in all three cases.
Some key SenateMatch responses for Fred Thompson and John McCain:
“Abortion is a woman’s right”
Fred: Strongly Opposes (voted to ban partial-birth abortion)
McCain: Opposes (voted to allow partial-birth abortion)
“Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws”
Fred: Strongly Opposes
McCain: Favors
“More federal funding for health coverage”
Fred: Opposes
McCain: Favors
“Replace coal & oil with alternatives”
Fred: Opposes (Voted to preserve budget for ANWR oil drilling)
McCain: Favors (Voted to kill budget for ANWR oil drilling
“Allow churches to provide welfare services”
Fred: Favors
McCain: Opposes
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Fred_Thompson.htm
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/John_McCain_VoteMatch.htm
“”Nobody on our side of the family was allowed to enter the temple and my sister had to have church-appointed surrogates stand in as parents of the bride while ger real mother stood outside, unable to witness the event.””
How do you describe a group like that? Oh ya now I remember the word.
Thank goodness men in their 60’s don’t have to play high school basketball to win an election.
Between him and Newt Gingrich (who said on O'Reilly tonight that the Dems will take the White House), I want to puke.
Folks, some of our formerly stable GOP leaders, elders, philosophers and supporters are turning loony and trying to create turmoil in our ranks. Is it their own self-perceived power that's doing this? Or compulsive quests for the spotlight at the expense of their former good sense and principles?
Newt has turned bonkers and has non-stop diarrhea of the mouth while Dobson is throwing perverse, hypocritical hissy-fits.
God help us, we have to remain strong and shield ourselves against these false prophets and con artists circulating among us.
Leni
Not having a Federal Marriage Amendment leaves rogue state citizens at the states mercy, and mercy they will not get. When families are broken down, so is society and the country. Government has a vested interest in preventing that from happening. It also has a vested interest in seeing to it that each state remains a Representative Government, as the Constitution dictates. When States or courts determine these issues, the public is not represented, thus such action is unconstitutional. That is when the Fed. govt should step in and tell that state there actions are unconstitutional.
I thought lying was against Biblical principles, didn’t you?
Just like Clinton won in 96 after a terrible 94, we too can win again in 08.
Its Hillary after all. You have to be a very devout dem to cast a vote for her.
Ooo. That adds a lot to the discussion.
“Not all care to live the eternal Law!”
It was talking about LDS Church members and almost half are excluded from their own temples!
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What more can I say we do have free will to live at the level we feel comfortable in.
Oh my, soooooo much wrong there, I wouldn’t know where to start, so I will decline.
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