Posted on 12/02/2007 2:57:55 PM PST by Zakeet
Mitt Romney will deliver a speech entitled “Faith in America,” addressing his Mormon religion, on Thursday at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Tex.
His campaign is describing the address as an opportunity for Mr. Romney to “share his views on religious liberty, the grand tradition religious tolerance has played in the progress of our nation and how the governor’s own faith would inform his presidency if he were elected.”
Mr. Romney personally made the decision to give the speech last week, feeling it was the right moment to do so, his advisers said. After he decided he would make it, the campaign consulted with former President Bush’s library, which invited him to deliver it there.
Suspicions about his Mormon beliefs, which many conservative Christians consider to be heretical, have dogged Mr. Romney’s candidacy since it began, with many polls showing large numbers of Americans would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate.
Mr. Romney had resisted delivering a speech dedicated to his faith up to this point, choosing instead to address questions about his beliefs when they came up from audience members and reporters.
But many, including evangelical supporters, have long urged him to address the questions head on and deliver an address modeled after the one John F. Kennedy delivered about his Catholicism to a gathering of Southern Baptist ministers in Houston in 1960 that many credit with defusing questions about his faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Sure. Stop pretending Romney’s tough enough to be President. When push comes to shove, I’ve yet to met a Mormon who will defend his faith, and it’s a detriment to all of us who try to support him. Note I say “him.”
Have you ever worked to support a candidate who was attacked for his Mormonism, only to see your hard work thrown away at the alter of “Beneath me to respond?”
One more thing before I log off for the night. Please specify what’s untrue.
Damn, you’re just like greyfoxx. You stir up troulbe with facts. Stop it, OK?
You have FReepmail.
“Mormons also make covenants to live a righteous and purposeful life. They also symbolize it as a reminder. If they choose to keep it to themselves and wear their reminder as an under garment, what is that to you?”
Of course you conveniently leave off the attribution of the power to ward off evil to garmies, which is the cause of the skepticism. If it were just a vestment, no one would give a hoot.
thanks, I appreciate that. Let us be in peace today.
“I didn’t know you were Mormon!”
I am a Reformed Reformed Mormon, having obtained my own planet early.
:)
Google “Matt Salmon” some time when you have a moment. My wife and I worked hard to get him elected Governor of AZ, and he threw the election rather than fight an accusation he favors polygamy.
Here’s your answer:
Dennis talks to Jon Keller, commentator on WBZ-TV, Boston’s CBS affiliate. His new book is The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster.
(For the record, a lot of what I say is in jest)
Quite frankly, I am a former Mor_on as well. Thankfully, my inward suspicions have been confirmed by research. The internet is a good thing - like a huge library at your beckoned call.
Anyone who denies the obvious is too ignorant anyway. Let ‘em vote for their man Mitt. It’s not like they feel that way because he’s a Mor_on, is it? No, it’s because he’s the best candidate for the job.
I am not Mormon and I like most Mormons I have met. For one thing they, their resources and records have been invaluable in my family history research.
I am Christian, born and raised such, and was never taught any prejudice against other Christians. I had no idea of the extent to which such bigotry exists until signing up on this and other conservative political forums.
Needless to say, I need to wear the highest high waders to view this thread. But, more than that, is this hatred really a part of traditional conservatism? I would think the opposite would be so, as our Nation was founded on religious tolerance.
Anyway, as awkwardly as this NYT article is titled, I am glad to see Romney doing this. It is the perfect thing. If he doesn’t step out and publicly address his faith and where he stands on it, then it will just dog him and nip at his heels. This is a very good move on Mitt’s part.
(I realize that, but some might not.)
I’ve only met one Mormon who was a crappy person. By and large, I like them, and I live in a place where there are a lot of them.
“I am Christian, born and raised such ...” Interesting, I didn’t know God had people being born Christian. You might want to check that belief with the standard Christian works of Romans and Galatians ...
The one issue I had is that when you fall away from the church, as it were, you really find out who is a genuine friend and who is not. My experience was that I ceased to exist to my Mor_on friends upon this occurring. Yes, good Christains, all.
“I just noticed Zakeet is a FReeper who only posts articles but does not respond, and is among those who rely solely on the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post etal, for their postings re Romney.”
Wow! you simply made that up, you Romney people need some lessons in honesty. I just checked his history, he posts comments and on various threads, he even responded on post 12 of this thread.
There is this thread he started, and then the previous one is this:
Posted by Zakeet
On News/Activism 12/02/2007 12:42:15 PM PST · 11 replies
Associated Press ^ | December 2, 2007 | Jim Kuhnhenn
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign called on rival Barack Obama to shut down a political action committee he controls that has contributed money to elected officials in early presidential contest states. Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson posed the demand to chief Obama strategist David Axelrod during a television interview Sunday and the campaign followed up with a press release shortly after. Wolfson accused Obama of using the PAC in “apparent contravention of campaign finance laws.” The aggressiveness of the Clinton camp is a testament to the increasingly tight race between the two in Iowa, where polls show Obama in...
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