Judging by what’s been here on FR for the last year or so, I’d say being a Mormon is at least 50% of the reason why freepers won’t vote for him. After all, a cultist just cannot be a true conservative.
Mittens is unelectable. We all better pray he’s not the nominee.
I don’t like Romney because he’s a liberal, period.
People on both sides of the aisle hate Mormons.
I dont care one way or the other, but no one should be surprised that the thing that people have been saying for 4 years would come at him IS ACTUALLY COMING AT HIM!
This is an ugly card and I hope...Am I supposed to support the weirdo because Democrats attack him on grounds of his faith? Or because Democrats imply that GOPers are bigots? I could not possibly care less. I oppose Willard Mitt Romney because of RomneyCare with its new rules, its new taxes, its assumptions about using state power to pursue progressive goals, its exchanges, and its mandates, a program that is functionally identical to ObamaCare. I will never support Romney; I will never vote for Romney. I will actively oppose him whether in the primaries or the general election.
“Dem Drives Anti-Mormon Card”
How does one drive a card?
If a decades-old DUI charge was enough to make evangelical voters refuse to go vote for G.W. Bush, Romney’s faith will certainly cause the same effect. And, the libs have been counting on it.
Begins hell ?
The anti Mormon bigots are in full hue and cry on Free Republic and have been for months.
Free Republic is probably where he came to learn about the anti Mormon bigotry.
it’s embarassing
Pfffttt.... so it begins indeed. We’re so-so worried about what Democrats will say. Oh my, we better run and hide, the big bad Democrats will do this, then they’ll do that, oh no, we’re so screwed...
What kind of gutless foxhole is this?
Obviously he hasn't looked at the results of the first two primaries and the polls in other states.... It looks to me like the Republican voters are falling all over themselves to vote for a Mormon.
I don’t think the Dems want to get in a battle on Mormonism vs Black Liberation Theology.
NRO’s love affair with Mitt, first began in ‘07 when he made contributions to NRO affiliated entities, continues. Ho Hum, Klo. He really isn’t going to make you a plural wife.
And "so it begins" with the subtle promotions of Romney on this site, Americanophile?
What, no hurl alert?
Kathryn Jean Lopez, the author of this article you posted, was thoroughly campaigning for Romney in '07 & early '08. Why are you posting her pro-Romney pieces?
At the very least, why are you posting her pro-Romney pieces minus any caveats or qualifiers?
Note how Lopez plays down Romneyism as a debate about historical geography.
If she wants to play the geography game, she can start by telling us where exactly "Kolob" is located. And she can tell us what Romney was doing there...and why she thinks somebody "spirit-born" on another planet isn't the equivalent of launching a "spirit-birther" movement...
...all to find out where Romney really was spirit-born...
After all...do the "birthers" really want an alien spirit-born creature from another planet operating as the leader of the free world?
Does anyone think that any of the Christian evangelicals will be offended to know that their church president believes that God’s true prophet for modern times was Joseph Smith and that Smith said that God/Jesus appeared to him with some bad news for all the rest of the Christians - i.e. those who are not Mormons? According to Smith the Lord said that all the other creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
I remember one time while tracting home to home on some streets in Aiken, South Carolina as a Mormon missionary about 21 years ago. I had my discussions booklet with me where the 3rd Discussion goes over the First Vision story where Joseph Smith was told to join none of the churches. However in order to not scare investigators away the 1st Discussion only briefly touches on this First Vision story so I got out some 1st Discussion pamphlets in order that we’d be prepared to share an upbeat message without offending these investigators. I met a lot of Baptists, Methodists, and others on my mission who would’ve been very offended to hear that their churches were abominable and corrupt so we focused on first getting them to start reading the Book of Mormon, committing themselves to be baptized a member of the Mormon church, and coming to church before we’d get into these details with them.
Since my mission I’ve learned that its more respectful and honest to sincerely try to exactly answer investigator’s questions as soon as possible. That way they have more respect and we’re individually more effective at living good honorable lives. There are some Mormons I know who think that the church ought to be corrupt and cover things up. For example, I know of a scandal similar to the Penn State scandal where a known child molester was excommunicated but allowed to roam free for years in order to protect the reputation of the Mormon church as being a good scandal-free church since the child molester had been a Bishop. When one of the victims became an adult he went in to his Mormon priesthood leader for help and wanted badly to talk to his parents. This leader of his is a friend of mine. Well the friend arranged a phone conference for this young man with his parents to take place about an hour later. In the meantime he called church headquarters seeking guidance. About 10 minutes later the current President of the Church Thomas Monson (then the #2 man in the church) called my friend back with orders for him to obstruct justice and to keep the matter still covered up and to not let the young adult talk to his parents. My friend disobeyed and as a result the talk with the parents happened, they called the cops, and the cops did an investigation. The former Bishop who had been roaming free like Jerry Sandusky once roamed was suddenly under scrutiny, he went to jail, is on the child sex offender registry, and now like Jerry Sandusky he has a hard time getting anyone to let him hang around children. Well Monson was pissed that my friend wouldn’t obstruct justice in order to protect the church’s good name so he ordered Boyd K. Packer (then #3 and now #2) who was head of the Quorum of the Twelve to have my friend excommunicated from the church. One of the Apostles (now deceased) whose grandson is Jon Huntsman Jr. wouldn’t go along with this scheme and suggested they should excommunicate him too if they were going to excommunicate my friend for not obeying Monson’s order for obstruction of justice. Thus my friend wasn’t excommunicated but the then-President of the church Hinckley soon did have my friend released from his church position and he’s never held a position in the church since. Personally I don’t mean to be judgmental of anyone on any of this. I’ll let you all decide for yourselves if God approves of the Mormon church top leadership obstructing justice so a child molester can roam free and the church’s public relations could avoid taking a hit. Just think of all the people who might not decide to get baptized and leave the other churches which good Mormons believe that Jesus said are abominable and corrupt. I bear my testimony that the Mormon church leadership really cares about the church maintaining a stellar reputation as a good organization.