Please see my post #136. By the way, there isn’t a religious belief in the world that some other religion or religious faction won’t deem “heretical” or worse. The LDS church long ago removed all elements (like polygamy, repudiated a century ago) that threatened social stability. It may be a cult but it’s a harmless cult today. To impugn the patriotism or sincerity of a Mormon on the basis of his religious beliefs, rather that his politics, is to go back to the days when many said that a Roman Catholic shouldn’t be president because his loyalty to America would conflict with a loyalty to Rome. We shouldn’t promote religious intolerance but examine a person’s past record and his views on the subject.
To impugn the patriotism or sincerity of a Mormon on the basis of his religious beliefs, rather that his politics, is to go back to the days when many said that a Roman Catholic shouldn’t be president because his loyalty to America would conflict with a loyalty to Rome
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Don’t buy the lie that it is the same thing JFK did. It isn’t. They are not harmless and their teachings are contrary to the good of this country.
His relgion DOES matter because it would affect how he would govern. Feelings before facts (Mormon testimony), Mormons are the ‘real’ Israel (replacement theology), their love and affiliation with Islam, gay marriage as the door to bring back polygamy, that Romney believes he is fulfilling Mormon prophecy, the LDS practice of “Lying for the Lord”.
The GOVERNMENT cannot institute a religious test for office, but Christians CAN AND SHOULD.
ALL Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox all deem the LDS to be heretic. If you knew anything about Mormonism, you would know just how unChrsitian they are. They deny the Trinity, make Christ a created being who had to earn his Godhood, believe in many many Gods (’without number’) and deny that Christ paid for sins on the Cross.
And Romney’s loyalty IS to the LDS church first. He even made covenants in the temple to that affect (Catholics have no such covenants).
Before you take the high road and claim Mormonism shouldn’t be a factor, go out and read this book. The author makes a great case for why we should not vote for Mormons (and doesn’t say that about Catholics). Read the book and you will see things different.
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