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Romney: Attacks on Religion Go Too Far
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 12 Dec 07 | Glen Johnson

Posted on 12/12/2007 8:41:31 AM PST by xzins

Republican Mitt Romney retorted to questions about his faith by surging rival Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, declaring that "attacking someone's religion is really going too far."

In an article to be published Sunday in The New York Times, Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...


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KEYWORDS: culture; faith; mormonism; romney; trinity
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1 posted on 12/12/2007 8:41:31 AM PST by xzins
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To: xzins

And Huckabee believes that murderers should go free to kill again. Wouldn’t waste a vote on either RINO.


2 posted on 12/12/2007 8:43:16 AM PST by peyton randolph (tag line taking a siesta)
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To: xzins

3 posted on 12/12/2007 8:44:23 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: peyton randolph
Wouldn’t waste a vote on either RINO.

I'd like to add Rudy to that list.

4 posted on 12/12/2007 8:44:50 AM PST by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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To: xzins

Since all are God’s children - this does not seem difficult to understand.


5 posted on 12/12/2007 8:44:56 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg
Actually, Huckabee asks a question that's on the mind of evangelicals. The answer is that Mormons do not believe that Jesus is an eternal part of the Godhead, the Trinity. They do believe that Jesus is a procreated being. And that Satan was procreated by the same being as was Jesus. In other words, they have the same Father. In historic Christianity, the Trinity means that Jesus was not procreated.

According to Mormon theology, God the Father lives on a planet with His spirit wives procreating spirit children who await physical bodies to inhabit. As we learned earlier, Jesus is the first son born to Elohim. God the Father had numerous other offspring, which included Lucifer. This makes him a spirit brother of Jesus and of all human beings. Mormon theologian LeGrand Richards writes, "Satan was just as much a man in the spirit world, as were those spirits who have been given bodies through birth in this world."{9}
9. LeGrand Richards, A Marvelous Work and Wonder (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Publishng Company), 277.

6 posted on 12/12/2007 8:45:57 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain! True Supporters of Our Troops Support the Necessity of their Sacrifice!)
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To: xzins

Attacks on your long support of abortion and your support of homosexual scoutmasters on the other hand, don’t go far enough. There is no issue you can hide behind Mitt.


7 posted on 12/12/2007 8:46:25 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck is the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aren't going.)
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To: xzins
Romney: Attacks on Religion Go Too Far

He's right. Whether its from candidates, the MSM or other religious types like Dobson.

8 posted on 12/12/2007 8:46:47 AM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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To: xzins
The attack on religion took off when the MSM got the marching orders to attack large congregations; with Americans being suckered into calling successful ministries “MEGA-churches.”
9 posted on 12/12/2007 8:51:11 AM PST by BlabItGrabIt ("It's The Economy, Stupid" ruse might be failing?)
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To: xzins
Asked if he believed Huckabee was speaking in a coded language to evangelicals, Romney praised his rival as a "good man trying to do the best he can," but he added, "I don't believe that the people of this country are going to choose a person based on their faith and what church they go to."

Good answer even though that's exactly what Huckabee was trying to do. Either that or Huckabee is an ignoramus when it comes to issues of theology... the very thing he supposedly got his degree in. I wonder how much he really about the things he's less well schooled in.

10 posted on 12/12/2007 8:53:06 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rintense; xzins
Romney: Attacks on Religion Go Too Far

He's right.

Does it bother you that Obama's father was a muslim and Obama attended a muslim school when he was young?

Did Huchabee say anything that is not true?

11 posted on 12/12/2007 8:53:33 AM PST by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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To: rhombus; rintense; BlabItGrabIt; wmfights

Actually, it’s just the question that’s on the mind of those who wonder about the differences between mormonism and Christianity.

It’s always just about the first thing we’re taught and the first question that comes up.

I’d say that it was a natural question for Huckabee to ask, if he’s trying to reach out a hand and cross the divide between the two religions.


12 posted on 12/12/2007 8:57:38 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain! True Supporters of Our Troops Support the Necessity of their Sacrifice!)
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Quit whining Romney. It doesn’t sound manly. Anytime the subject comes up, tell people you’ve explained yourself and your Mormonism as well as you can, and move on. Tell reporters you don’t want to get caught up in the ignorance that is coming out of some corners, and be manly. Have a hair or two out of place when you stand up for yourself. When you get really frustrated, and can’t take it anymore, stick your fist into the air, and yell, “GO FRED.”


13 posted on 12/12/2007 9:01:56 AM PST by pallis
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To: xzins
Actually, it’s just the question that’s on the mind of those who wonder about the differences between mormonism and Christianity. It’s always just about the first thing we’re taught and the first question that comes up. I’d say that it was a natural question for Huckabee to ask, if he’s trying to reach out a hand and cross the divide between the two religions.

Then it shows how worthless Huckabee's theology degree is. If it's the "first question" I'd expect a degree in theology would be useful to answer that question and that Huckabee should be instructing people in the real answer...guess not. I wonder what other things Huckabee doesn't know on topics he's less well schooled on. Sorry, after all this time, to bring up the same old canard...I don't buy the ignorance excuse.

14 posted on 12/12/2007 9:03:11 AM PST by rhombus
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” Either that or Huckabee is an ignoramus when it comes to issues of theology... the very thing he supposedly got his degree in.”

Are you saying that you can give us straight, clear answers to our questions about the secretive Mormon cult?


15 posted on 12/12/2007 9:05:39 AM PST by ansel12 (“Sanctuary Mansion? The savings help me to become leader of the anti-illegal worker war. Romney 08)
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To: xzins

It really is unfortunate that the Huckabigots are interested only in supporting another evangelical and bashing a Mormon. If they would actually look into what these candidates have said and done they will see that Huckabee is VERY liberal on illegal immigration (despite his recent “endorsment”), VERY liberal on foreign policy, and VERY liberal on fiscal issues. Maybe the Huckabigots will wake up before they manage to nominate a candidate who is a sure loser to Hillary in the general.


16 posted on 12/12/2007 9:06:12 AM PST by davenp35 (Romney for Pres!)
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To: pallis
Quit whining Romney. It doesn’t sound manly. Anytime the subject comes up, tell people you’ve explained yourself and your Mormonism as well as you can, and move on. Tell reporters you don’t want to get caught up in the ignorance that is coming out of some corners, and be manly. Have a hair or two out of place when you stand up for yourself. When you get really frustrated, and can’t take it anymore, stick your fist into the air, and yell, “GO FRED.”

Good advice. Perhaps he listens to you:

Asked if he believed Huckabee was speaking in a coded language to evangelicals, Romney praised his rival as a "good man trying to do the best he can," but he added, "I don't believe that the people of this country are going to choose a person based on their faith and what church they go to."

17 posted on 12/12/2007 9:06:23 AM PST by rhombus
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To: ansel12

I’m saying the question asked by Huckabee has been answered in this very article... hell, if you don’t believe it, that’s your problem not Romney’s.


18 posted on 12/12/2007 9:07:38 AM PST by rhombus
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To: xzins; rhombus; rintense; BlabItGrabIt
I’d say that it was a natural question for Huckabee to ask,...

I'm not opposed to the conversation.

I want to see how Romney deals with this now, not after the nomination. The Rats will use their lackeys in the media if he gets the nomination, to raise the same questions and he better be ready. I want to see Huckabee under the lights as well and how he handles it.

Whomever the nominee is they are going to have to deal with all kinds of garbage. Let the one who handles it best emerge. If Huckabee's comments are wrong Romney should call him on it. If not Romney should be ready to explain them, or stop claiming he's a good mormon.

19 posted on 12/12/2007 9:08:00 AM PST by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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To: xzins

Mitt...Huck...enough, both of you and just be conservatives like Fred. Is that too much to ask?


20 posted on 12/12/2007 9:08:57 AM PST by ari-freedom (Happy Chanuka! It’s just another ordinary miracle today.)
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