Posted on 01/17/2008 6:38:28 AM PST by tortdog
"They said all sorts of ludicrous things [about Romney]... that when he became president he would pass a bill for same-sex marriage."
The push-polling has hit other candidates too, but it highlights Mr Romney's particular difficulties in selling his candidacy to the religious right since he is a Mormon. While much attention has focused on the possibility of "firsts" in the Democratic race with a woman in Hillary Clinton or African American in Barack Obama as real shots at the White House, Mr Romney would be the first Mormon president.
It's something that's firing up the evangelical community, which is highly suspicious of Mormonism, claiming it is a perversion of the Bible and describing it as a cult.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Yeah I really believe what the national media says about ME: NOT,
Romney’s real problem is his liberalism not his faith!~
“Consider whether you are MAKING it your holy book”
You did not read what I wrote go read it again.
“See my tagline.”
Fred is my first choice also but there is a difference between loving a horse and betting on one. And if you look through the selection process he is a very, very long shot.
All the time.
You realize, doncha, that it was the person Brigham sent to be with John D. Lee in at Lee's Ferry back about 140 years ago that led to the Short Creek area being developed with polygamous fundamentalist Mormons who still adhered to D&C 132...and that it was the feds not the Mormons who first tried to do something about the Colorado City-Hildale fundamentalists over 50 years ago--not the Utah Mormons...and you realize, doncha, that despite the welfare fraud that's ongoing there coupled with forced weddings of minors, the rape of minors, incest, that Utah officials pretty much look the other way other than providing a school for the "lost boys" of these cities.
Is that a yes?
Is "Common Sense" a Regligious Right organization? No clue. Are Colorado attitudes indicative of the "Deep South"?
This looks to me like Aussie cluelessness. They had to have a villain; "Religious Right" and "Dixie" are favorites in that category; so, voila!
And geez, even North Carolina isn't "Deep" South. It's "Mid"-South. You want "Deep" South, you're talking about one layer down.
So the Pope is a cult leader and the Catholic Church is a cult then?
Please name one book which was previously part of the Bible that was exluded by Catholics. Thank you.
Common Sense, out of Colorodo, are the perpetrators of the push poll in question. Your (and the article's) assumptions that this outfit is composed of Christians, and what their motives supposedly are, other than to win a campaign by gutter tactics are dubious at best. I repeat, Romney has hired a prototype of the kind of sleazebag you are complaining about as one of his top advisors, which doesn't leave him, or you, much room to complain when similar kinds of slimeball things are done to him.
Cordially,
As stated, it was the article that made the link. It is untrue?
Your "memory" is faulty in the extreme.
This hitpiece on Christians is far more despicable than any push poll. A near-total perversion of reality.
I guess I need your help. He says he would:
* preserve/protect woman’s right to choose
* preserve age of consent law
* not change the laws on abortion to make it more difficult for women to have an abortion.
A lot of talk about the RIGHT of a woman to choose. Nothing about Romney FAVORING abortion. In fact, he says that he will not CHANGE the law (including making abortion easier to obtain).
Help me out here. Where do I err?
In the video you bring forth, Romney states that he did not accept either being called pro-choice OR pro-life.
Did you want me to skip over that part?
For instance, if 7Q5 and the other Cave 7 fragments from Qumran are from the Gospel of Mark, then this Gospel was in writing sometime between 50 - 68 A.D.
Moreover, nearly the entire New Testament (that is, inluding all of the Epistles) exists in manuscripts dated to before 300 AD. The writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers provide strong paleographic evidence that they had access to the parts of the New Testament they were writing about, even if we no longer have the original codices.
You ought to know this. They had all the original manuscript papyri centuries before they were officially collected (not "created") into one canonical volume.
You err in not recognizing the obvious.
Mitt Romney, by his own words, spent most of his adult life, and all of his public life, as a hardcore proponent of abortion on demand.
And now he’s lying to you because he wants your vote.
What is so hard to understand about that?
Did you want me to skip over that part?
No. I want you to pay particular attention to that part. It's one of the clearest and indisputable indications that Mitt Romney is a complete fraud.
“Every Mormon I ever met was crazier than a bed bug.”
You’re kidding, right? Virtually every Mormon I’ve met has been kind and honest. I don’t agree with their doctrine, but I like the people.
All I know is that Common Sense of Colorado did the push pull, and that they may have ties to the Huckabee campaign. To extrapolate this to Christians v. Mormons is unwarranted from the evidence so far.
Cordially,
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