[mountainfolk]

It is not Mitt supporters who are threatening to give this election to Obama if he is not chosen as VP. The headline is about EVANGELICAL leaders WARNING that Mitt will kill their vote. Now, ordinarily I would not be concerned about regional bigotry, I grew up around it and shrugged it off then as now. However, I do take politics seriously, knowing the future of this country is at stake. That future, with the socialist left taking over the power of this government means loss of this Republic as we know it. If I were a member of a group who was more bent on fighting another religion than keeping this country free and independent, I would leave it in a heartbeat and do whatever I could to counteract their disastrous demands.

[greyfoxx39]

It is not Mitt supporters who are threatening to give this election to Obama if he is not chosen as VP.

It IS Mitt supporters who are hiding their heads in the sand regarding the negatives presented by Mitt's religion. I have a hard time understanding how Romney supporters can believe the racist past of the LDS church will be ignored by the campaign of a black candidate.

Until 1978 it was the policy and practice of the Mormon church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) to bar those with black African ancestry (even partial) from admission to the Mormon priesthood, which otherwise was open to all (non-black) male members of the church. This ban also applied to keep black members of the church from participation in the sacred temple ceremonies which Mormon doctrine says are necessary for admission to the highest degrees of the Celestial Kingdom. In other words, blacks would never get as high a place as members of other races in Mormon heaven.

Mormon theologians justified this racial prejudice by claiming that the black race is descended from Cain, who was cursed and marked (supposedly with a black skin; Genesis 4:8-15). His descendants, through Ham, the son of Noah who was also cursed (Genesis 9:18-27), continued to bear the mark (black skin) and the curse, in the Mormon view. This ban was further justified by reference to the Mormon belief in a great War in Heaven before the creation of the world, when the forces of good overcame the forces of evil; Mormons believe that one's position at birth in this life is determined by one's valiance in that struggle. Those human beings who were born to privileged and prosperous white Mormons were obviously very valiant. Blacks were (just as obviously) less valiant.

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“When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the priesthood and of coming into the Kingdom of God and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 2, pp. 142-143; online at http://journals.mormonfundamentalism.org/Vol_02/refJDvol2-27.html

This campaign is heavily race infused already. McCain choosing Romney would just hand the dems another race talking point, and neutralize the Wright negative.

As much as some would wish otherwise, voters are free to vote for OR against a candidate for whatever reason, including questioning the judgement of a candidate that believes that God was once a man.

[Elsie]

If I were a member of a group who was more bent on fighting another religion than keeping this country free and independent, I would leave it in a heartbeat and do whatever I could to counteract their disastrous demands.

If I were a member of a 'church' that valued their COUNTRY more than their GOD; I'd leave it in a heartbeat.

[ladyjane]

...a group more bent on fighting another religion than keeping this country free and independent

Amazing, isn't it?