Posted on 08/08/2008 7:58:45 AM PDT by WilliamReading
CBSNews.com: So, Tom Ridge, who's been discussed. You think
Richard Land: That would be a catastrophe.
CBSNews.com: Whos on the list of people mentioned for VP that you think would most excite Southern Baptists and other members of the conservative faith community?
Richard Land: Probably Governor Palin of Alaska, because she's a person of strong faith. She just had her fifth child, a Downs Syndrome child. And there's a wonderful quote that she gave about her baby, and the fact that she would never, ever consider having an abortion just because her child had Downs Syndrome. She's strongly pro-life.
CBSNews.com: And what about Mitt Romney?
Richard Land: I think Mitt Romney would be an excellent choice. There are people in the evangelical community who would have a problem with his Mormonism. I am not one of them. I mean, I'm very clear that I do not believe Mormonism is a Christian faith. But that does not disqualify someone from being President or Vice President. And my guess would be that, probably, about 15 to 20 percent of the evangelical community would have a problem with his Mormonism.
I'll tell you another choice that I think would ring a lot of bells among evangelical and Catholic social conservatives, and I think could have some real electoral punch to it, is Eric Cantor, the congressman from Richmond. He's the fourth highest person in the House leadership. He is a conservative, observant Jew, a one hundred percent pro-life voting record. And if he picked Cantor, that would probably help hold Virginia. And it would increase McCain's percentage of the Jewish vote in Florida and Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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When it comes to the LDS, it is not Christians against Christians. Joseph Smith made it very clear where Protestants AND CATOLICS belong...
If I were a member of a 'church' that valued their COUNTRY more than their GOD; I'd leave it in a heartbeat.
Nope: past words of the LDS Organization's leaders...
What is a Christian?
"What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world"
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 270
"...all the priests who adhere to the sectarian religions of the day with all their followers, without one exception, receive their portion with the devil and his angels."
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. , The Elders Journal, v. 1, no. 4, p. 60
"Brother Taylor has just said that the religions of the day were hatched in hell. The eggs were laid in hell, hatched on its borders, and then kicked on to the earth."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 6, p. 176
"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world."
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 199
"Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent."
- Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 255
Uh...
'Cause he's not a Liberal like Romney?
Never heard of him but I agree with most of what he said.
* (After all they can do)
2 Nephi 25:23 for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.
The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.
THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535541
Joseph Smith |
I don’t trust Romney to be President, but I think he would be fine as Vice President. I think he would be an effective campaigner an be able to psych Obama out.
Amazing, isn't it?
Then do NOT let him get into a position that is merely One Heartbeat Away from it!
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty
A very silly post. The Republican party cannot have, and does not need to have, a religious litmus test for candidates.
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Excuse me but whatever you opinion of my intelligent post # 104 is, there is no mention of a religious litmus test...
In fact nowhere in my intelligent and sincere post did I mention religion...
Why would the religion of Eric Cantor have any bearing on whether or not a Republican (or any American) should vote for him ????
You were the one to bring up the religions of Congressman Eric Cantor and Willard Mitt Romney in your # 40 ...
Were you being a bigot when you said...
“I have been wondering why a non Christian Jew, Eric Cantor, is getting a push from those who will not accept Mitt Romney as a candidate” ????
Hi Elsie
:)
Christians mocking other Christians is not a pretty sight.
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Probably not...
Mormons mocking Christians is not a pretty sight, either....
I think Romney is the best “attack dog” the GOP has right now, and he seems to annoy Obama quite a bit.
:)
But "hi" for how long?
yep!
I liked the new ones.
What people just don't know...
Think about these folks next time you pull out that Tabernacle Choir “Christmas” Album...
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