“Has any president answered to “his leaders” in the church? I don’t think so. You keep posting this over and over and over again.”
Dec. 16, 2007 Meet the Press
MR. RUSSERT: I want to ask you about an interview you had with Sam Stone—Sunstone magazine. Here’s it on the cover. It’s a Mormon-based magazine. This is from November of ‘05, and it says, quote, “Romney sought advice from the man he admires most in this world, Mormon President Gordon Bitner Hinckley. The conversation eventually turned to whether a run for the presidency would be good for him and the church. The specifics of the conversation are, of course, known only to people who were there.”
Should voters be concerned that you were seeking input from the leader of the Mormon church as to whether or not you should run for president?
“Romney sought advice from the man he admires most in this world, Mormon President Gordon Bitner Hinckley. The conversation eventually turned to whether a run for the presidency would be good for him and the church. The specifics of the conversation are, of course, known only to people who were there.”
Wow, great quote and exactly to the point.
I don’t begrudge someone seeking guidance from their “spiritual” leaders; it is to be expected. However, when they try to say that those “leaders” won’t influence them, it makes me mad. And mormons consider Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and their “successors” down to the current Gordon Hinckley to be “prophet, seer, and revelator”
They put there headman on a much higher plain than Roman Catholics do the Pope. So, the comparison between Kennedy and Romney is bogus.
Who cares.