Posted on 10/18/2010 9:02:53 AM PDT by MissesBush
I'm currently LDS and am perplexed by this claim because it's totally outside of my experience. I've never been pressured by anyone to vote for any particular candidate ever, certainly not for Mitt Romney in the 08 primary or any other.
Yes, the LDS Church will ocassionally take stands on ballot iniatives with a moral component like Prop. 8 to make a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But even on the current ballot measure to legalize marijuana here, Prop 19, that I'm aware of the LDS Church has issued no opinion one way or another as to how LDS members should vote. Maybe they yet will before the election, but so far no one has said a word about it in church. And as I said never once have I heard anyone say a word about how to vote for any particular candidate.
If someone did in your experience, my sense is it was their own personal opinion and their own little crusade. The church regularly issues statements in the run up to elections that church buildings nor church meetings are to be used for any political candidate or cause or for any campaign purpose.
Greyfox - your experience is similar to mine.
They would never announce from the pulpit, but Mormons know that they are expected to vote for Mormons if there is a chance to choose. And the Mormon grapevine is especially capable of getting the word out who to vote for. It is one of the benefits of Mormonism.
Well count me as a Mormon who doesn't know that nor have been told that--nor do I know anyone who's LDS who has experienced this. As you 2 are part of the little anti-Mormon contingent on FR, I am taking you both with a huge grain of salt knowing what your agenda is in making these claims. By the way, unless something is stated from the pulpit, how would we possibly know this? Telepathy?
Fox News showed the early voters standing in the Nevada lines yesterday. Very heavy turn-out and participation. And they all had a certain look about them—at first I could not put my finger on it, then it hit me—they remind me of all the internally seething Tea Party people I elbow with at every rally and protest I go to. They appeared to be crawling over the proverbial broken glass to be there. I just know how they are voting. We ARE going to win Nevada.
Relief Society?
Oh yes, Greyfoxx and I are eeeviiillllll.
I never said you are evil. I just said you’re wrong. And you have to be or have been Mormon to know about Relief Society?
P.S. The word is "contingent," not contingency.
----"We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father; and so on, from generation to generation, ... we wonder in our minds, how far back the genealogy extends, and how the first world was formed, and the first father was begotten" (Orson Pratt, The Seer, p.132).
"Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith.... The matter that seems such a mystery is the statement that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man. This is one of the mysteries.... The Prophet taught that our Father had a Father and so on. Is not this a reasonable thought, especially when we remember that the promises are made to us that we may become like him?" (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.10, 12).
----"Jesus was the bridegroom at the marriage of Cana of Galilee...We say it was Jesus Christ who was married, to be brought into relation whereby he could see his seed [children] before he was crucified (Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 82).
"There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of that transaction, it will be discovered that non less a person that Jesus Christ was married on that occasion. If he was never married, his intimacy with Mary and Martha an the other Mary also whom Jesus loved, must have been highly unbecoming and improper to say the best of it." (Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 259).
----"In the Church councils, it was spoken of: "Joseph F. Smith_ He spoke upon the marriage in Cana of Galilee. He thought Jesus was the bridegroom and Mary and Martha the brides."(Journal of Wilford Woodruff, July 22, 1883).
"The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were Mormons (Jedediah Grant, Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, p. 346).
----"One thing is certain, that there were several holy women that great loved Jesus, such as Mary and Martha her sister, and Mary Magdalene; and Jesus greatly loved them and associated with the much; and when he arose from the dead, instead of first showing himself to his chosen witnesses, the Apostles, He appeared first to these women, or at least to one of them--namely, Mary Magdalene. Now, it would be very natural for a husband in the resurrection to appear first to his own dear wives, and afterwards show himself to his other friends. If all the acts of Jesus were written, we no doubt should learn that these beloved women were his wives." (Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 159).
BTW, as a member of the Flying Inmans who post the facts about Harry Reid’s Mormonism, using the actual quotes from Mormons’ religious leadership, we don’t attack ‘other religions’, we just ridicule the idiocy at the heart of the Mormonism claim to be ‘restored Christianity’. A few Mormonism apologists have tried to generate schism between Catholics and Protestants on Mormonism discussion threads, but it doesn’t work since one of the things Catholic Church and nearly ALL Protestant denominations have in common is the rejection of Mormonism and Mormonism baptism, because it is definitely not Christianity ‘restored’.
"There is an anti-MormonISM contingency at FR, not an anti-Mormon contingency."
MIssy Bushee, we just wait for your ilk to surface, and that's why we are a contingency. You see, son, there are alot more than just the Flying Inmans refuting the heresies of Mormonism at FR. That would make the Inmans a contingent, but with being the watchers, we are a contingency.
Why, in the same way that it's known which businesses to deal with, which doctors to go to, etc. etc.
Of COURSE there wouldn't be a statement from the podium...why would any mormon vote for someone running against a "brother"? I'll just wait and see what the results are...I think it's so close that Reid will win WITH the mormon vote.
The democrat plan to crash the American economy and usher in the world government and onw world currency has huge ramifications on crumbling the family as a societal unit of stability in America. That aspect of Harry ‘the undertaker’ Reid’s party may cause a much larger percentage of Mormons to vote him out in November. The message coming from Glenn Beck is not foreign to attentive Mormons. The family unit is paramount in Mormon theology. It is probably the most stabilizing institution for the Western areas populated with so many Mormons. The corrosive effect of homosexuality on society and particularly the family unit is something that has shown the LDS ability to mobilize sentiments in opposing a major danger to the family. Look for Mormons to vote overwhelmingly to oust these lying anti-American democrats.
Invented? No, refined somewhat? Yeah, I'll buy that...
the infowarrior
Reid came off like the doddering idiot that he is. What a POS.
Ah, got it! Thanks - hadn’t thought of that (the hedonistic wannabe-highroller losers of society)
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