Romney resigns from Marriott board ( tied to Natl Rest. Association, Dick Marriott)

boston.com ^ | January 12, 2011 | by Stephanie Vallejo

[KTM rider]

right on !

RINO's must be driven into extinction but it wont be easy, the marxists control the flow of "news", the RINO's hitch a ride and the average voter soaks it up

[USARightSide]

`______good ol’ mormon boy network at work.’

Back in the ‘80’s, I knew a man who once said something like “why do you think I’m such a great ‘con’ man of a sort? Because, as a former Mormon, `they’ taught me well.”

[syriacus]

Thank you for making the corrections, Jim.

[syriacus]

Now that the author and date are corrected, doesn’t the title need to be corrected to “Romney resigns from Marriott board” (which was the title of the Vallejo article.) ?

[syriacus]

I've asked Jim to change the title of the article, to the

REAL title of Vallejo's article,
"Romney resigns from Marriott board."

I'm sure you would agree that Vallejo deserves to be cited correctly.

[syriacus]

Can you please change the title of this thread to "Romney resigns from Marriott board"?

That is the real title of Vallejo's article, which came out 10 months ago. Thank you.

[syriacus]

Thanks for correcting the title!

[Terry Mross]

And Romney says he pulled over on the side of the road and cried when he heard the news about blacks holding the priesthood.

[Colofornian]

And Romney says he pulled over on the side of the road and cried when he heard the news about blacks holding the priesthood.

He was 31 years old for God's sake. Where his voice as an adult all through his years?

What? Mormons just "go along" with anything their leaders tell them with absolutely no dissent?

(That's a mark of a cult!)

Even in the early 1960s, 40% of Mormons said in a survey that they would return to polygamy if their "prophet" told them to...IOW, 2 out of 5 would betray their marriage covenants and openly bounce between "partners."

Another mark of a cult.

And then we have the following interesting interview except from Mormon candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr.:

This was posted on a Mormon Web site -- Mormonthink.com:

Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on the LDS Priesthood Ban - 8/22/11

ABC News asked Mormon presidential candidate, John Huntsman about the priesthood ban and Huntsman responded very candidly:

TAPPER: Do you think it's fair for reporters or members of the public to ask candidates about their faith?

HUNTSMAN: I think it's fair, but it doesn't matter what I think about it, reporters are going to ask regardless.

TAPPER: Well, OK. Here I go then.

You're Mormon. Until you were 18, your church had racist rules. It would not allow anyone with African ancestry to become a priest and blacks were also banned from participating in certain Mormon ordinances, such as temple marriages. Then the leadership of the church, in 1978, announced something along the lines of that God had changed his mind or the rules had changed because of revelation. You seem to be a thinking man. What was it like to go through this as a -- as a young man, your church having racist rules and then all of a sudden, God says no more?

HUNTSMAN: I think it was wrong, plain and simple. I think it was wrong. I think it was something that divided people, divided friends and maybe even divided families. I believe they -- they saw the errors of their way and they made a policy change. And I think they're much better because of it.

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Let me get this straight, Mr. Huntsman. What you said in August then, was either...

(a) The Mormon god made a "policy" change on the basis of skin color, eh? What kind of a god do you worship, Mr. Huntsman?

Or (b) The Mormon "prophets" -- all 11 of them before Kimball...including Joseph Smith & Brigham Young...ALL got the "revelations" on race wrong for the first 3/4s of Mormon church existence? Really?

So which did Huntsman toss under the bus in August? The Mormon "prophets" or the Mormon gods?

More on this next post... The interview is available at ABCnews.com

[Colofornian]

And Romney says he pulled over on the side of the road and cried when he heard the news about blacks holding the priesthood.

In my last post, I cited a Huntsman excerpt from an August interview with ABC.com

One of the things Huntsman said to ABC about the racist policy the Mormon church held for 148 years was -- 82% of its existence -- was: "I think it was wrong, plain and simple. I think it was wrong. I think it was something that divided people, divided friends and maybe even divided families. I believe they -- they saw the errors of their way and they made a policy change."

So...based upon this admission...I can see the follow-up MSM questions now both to Huntsman and to Romney:

Tell us, Mr. Huntsman. Tell us, Mr. Romney. Does this mean that the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham (Pearl of Great Price) was also "wrong" to divide people, friends and family. This supposedly "most correct book" -- the Book of Mormon -- is in "error" and needs changing, too?

Which verses am I referencing?

Tell us, Mr. Huntsman. Tell us Mr. Romney. Do you think black skin is a "curse" and white skin color is "delightsome?"

Here's five Book of Mormon verses below talking about how the "skin of blackness" is a "cursing" based upon their "iniquity" (2 Nephi 5:21; Alma 3:6; Jacob 3:5) and how when the curse would be removed, they would again become "white" (3 Nephi 2:15), which the Book of Mormon says is a "delightsome" color (2 Nephi 5:21; cf. older version of 2 Nephi 30:6):

* "And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." (2 Nephi 5:21)

* "...many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and delightsome people." (2 Nephi 30:6, pre-1981 versions...changed from unknown reasons in 1981 to "fair and delightsome")

* "And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against the their brethren..." (Alma 3:6)

* "Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins..." (Jacob 3:5)

* "And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites." (3 Nephi 2:15)

The Book of Abraham verses are 1:24-27..."and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land." (v. 24)...Pharaoh was then supposedly "cursed...as pertaining to the Priesthood. Now, Pharaoh, being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood..." (v. 26-27)

[syriacus]

Interesting quotes. Thanks.

[Elsie]

Former Governor Mitt Romney resigned today from the board of directors of Marriott International, potentially another sign of his preparations for another presidential run.

Did he dump all of his STOCK???

[Elsie]

Former Governor Mitt Romney resigned today from the board of directors of Marriott International, potentially another sign of his preparations for another presidential run.

But WHY??

Another famous MORMON could multitask!

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Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 

In 1953, Benson was appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by President Eisenhower. Benson accepted this position with the permission of Church President David O. McKay and therefore served simultaneously in the United States Cabinet and in the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Taft_Benson 

[Elsie]

...Herman Cain’s tenure at the National Restaurant Association...

A rodent's aroma is in the atmosphere!

[Elsie]

Until the early ‘60s American’s of African descent were not allowed to hold Priesthood until LDS President David O. McKay had a “vision” that they should be allowed.

HMMmm...

I've heard that name before...

[Elsie]

Until the early ‘60s American’s of African descent were not allowed to hold Priesthood until LDS President David O. McKay had a “vision” that they should be allowed.

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Ya don't say!?

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"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.

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Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'

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August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."

"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."

"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)

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1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

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We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.

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Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."

(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

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When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

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When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."

(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)

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Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

 

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

 

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

 

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[Elsie]

Your facts are wrong and it makes you look like an uninformed idiot.

I just HATE when that happens!

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Let's straighten that out:

In early June of this year, the First Presidency announced that a revelation had been received by President Spencer W. Kimball extending priesthood and temple blessings to all worthy male members of the Church. President Kimball has asked that I advise the conference that after he had received this revelation, which came to him after extended meditation and prayer in the sacred rooms of the holy temple, he presented it to his counselors, who accepted it and approved it. It was then presented to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who unanimously approved it, and was subsequently presented to all other General Authorities, who likewise approved it unanimously.

[Elsie]

You have claimed to be the author yourself.

Huh?

[Elsie]

The growth of Vegas since 1990 has been nothing short of explosive.

Thanks to Californians bailing out of there!

[Elsie]

I’d say offhand now that Reid is better at playing the Democratic network than any Mormon network, because inside Nevada’s observant Mormon community, he’s widely known as a Jack Mormon, and observant Mormons don’t often vote for Jacks.

BYU thinks he is a GOOD Mormon!

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/695217316/Reid-gets-warm-reception-at-BYU.html