Posted on 10/04/2007 9:40:06 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
When Mitt Romney appeared last week (via closed circuit from California) before the Council of Retired Chief Executives meeting in Washington, he faced kindred souls: rich Republicans who had managed big enterprises. Yet the second question from the audience was whether Romney's Mormon faith was hurting his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. He replied that about the only people who brought up his religion were members of the media, an answer that simply is untrue.
Romney is asked about Mormonism wherever he goes. In my travels, I find his religious preference cited everywhere as the source of opposition to his candidacy. His response to the former chief executives that only reporters care about this issue sounded like a politician's tired evasion. Romney was either too obtuse to appreciate his problem or was stalling because he had not determined how to deal with it. Contact with his advisers indicates that it's the latter.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Nope, I would vote for a Jew. They believe in God, the God of Abraham and Moses.
BTW, If someone who was Jewish came forward with accusations like the ones I have against Mormonism, I would listen. Why don’t you? Do you want to blindly believe that Mormons are better than the rest of us?
Please get over the idea that it is wrong to question someones belief. You’ve fallen into the ungodly trap of political correctness....and you say you are a conservative. Amazing!
Apples and cauliflower comparison. There is, as we all know, a vast difference between a fringe Christian religion and one that endorses such things as murder, lying, oppression, torture and slavery as Islam does.
It's time to think strategically about this election. The Hillary camp sure is, daily. It is a tipping point in American history.
I would rather have a President with a different take on Christianity than a manipulative micro-managing "Christian" who construes it as her divine mission to tell everyone else how they have to live.
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Yes. While I do not support Romney, I consider him a better candidate than Giuliani, who like me is Catholic.
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LOL! Sure seems like it. :)
Another thing that you seem to forget is right now we are in the process of determining which candidate we send to face Hillary. We wish to send the strongest man we have, while selecting the candidate that reflects our political ideals.
Romney is not that candidate. It is obvious he is fatally flawed. Not only is he a pandering, conservative-come-lately, flip-flopper, but he espouses a religious belief that has at its very heart a display of belief that all other Christianity is wrong, and not of God.
Why are you fighting so hard to send THAT flawed candidate to face Hillary. There are better men running than Guilianni and Romney. Pick one, perhaps Thompson, or Hunter or Huckabee, or McCain. YES, I happen to think McCain is better than Romney. At least he hasn’t tried to fool us about his liberal beliefs, we know what they are upfront.
Mormonism itself teaches its adherants to pander, to answer only the “right” question, to obsfucate, hide and misrepresent. Why would you send a man who has demonstrated these traits to face Hillary?
Indeed, Brother!
Why; oh WHY must we be subjected to quotes from our past leaders and excerpts from our beloved Scriptures and references to our secret sacred Temple Rites® by these, these...
GENTILES!!??
--MormonDude(Wth love and peace towards all!)
Thanks for the link, and the thoughtful post.
1 Corinthians 12:28
And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.
Got these; too?
I guess when those EX-Mormons started to THINK, then they saw the Truth and left the LDS organization behind.
Thanks.
Thank you that was powerful!
*"as long as it's translated properly"
And just what IS that MYSTERY???
Is it something that's going to show up in the 1830's??
Apparently not:
You are just as ignorant as the rest of them.
Hopefully not...
No doubt...
But there sure COUILD be in the FUTURE!!!
Our GOD is constantly giving us new things!!!
--MormonDude(waiting for more stuff)
It's too bad that the headquarters in SLC don't like them RLDS folks and REALLY hate the people in Colorado City that CLAIM to be the TRUE Mormons!
Go to FR and have LDS members tell me how misled I am??
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