Looks like you forgot Eisenhower was a Jehovah’s witness.
Many Christians actually voted for him because of where he stood on the issues. They knew they were electing a Commander in Chief, not theologian in chief.
I didn't know that....and I'd expect 90% of the population at that time...didn't know either.
Times are much different now....As you know information flows much more freely these days. More people are informed...
Besides that...I never said Mr. Romney's mormonism is a great weight on his neck...I replied to the poster that said it shouldn't even be an issue.
It IS an issue...and I don't see how anyone can argue that it's not. The fact remains..that thousands/millions of American Christians question mormonism's roots. It's founders, and it's history. It's a fact.
And Michael Jackson; too.
The REST of the STory.
David Jacob Eisenhower's family arrived in the United States in 1741 when Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer emigrated from Odenwald, Germany. Eisenhower's mother, Ida E. Eisenhower, previously a member of the River Brethren, joined the Watchtower Society (now more commonly known as Jehovah's Witnesses) in 1895, when Eisenhower was 4 or 5 years old.[citation needed] The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are opposed to killing or any doctrines such as militarism; Eisenhower's ties to the group were weakened when he joined the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1911. By 1915, the home no longer served as the meeting hall. All the men in the household abandoned the Witnesses as adults, and some even hid their previous affiliation.[6][7] However, on his death in 1942, Eisenhower's father was given his funeral rites as though he remained a Jehovah's Witness, and Eisenhower's mother continued as an active Jehovah's Witness until her death. Despite their differences in religious beliefs, Eisenhower enjoyed a close relationship with his mother throughout her lifetime.
Eisenhower was baptized, confirmed, and became a communicant in the Presbyterian church in a single ceremony on February 1, 1953, just 12 days after his first inauguration.[8] He is the only president known to have pursued these rites while in office. Eisenhower was instrumental in the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and the 1956 adoption of "In God We Trust" as the motto of the US, and its 1957 introduction on paper currency. In his retirement years, he was a member of the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church.[9] The chapel at his presidential library is intentionally inter-denominational.
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