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In Israel, Romney declares Jerusalem to be capital
YNET ^ | 07.29.12, 21:19

Posted on 07/29/2012 11:42:01 AM PDT by Milagros

In Israel, Romney declares Jerusalem to be capital Republican presidential hopeful says 'ayatollahs in Iran are testing our moral defenses'

Ynet reporters, AP Latest Update: 07.29.12, 21:19 / Israel News

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday declared Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jewish state and told an Israeli audience that the United States has "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capital; capitalofisrael; idodeclare; israel; jerusalem; jewishvote; mittromney; obama; proisrael; romney; romney2012; romneyisrael; romneyjerusalem; romneyvisit
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To: rcrngroup

http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=32874

...During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton said: “I recognize Jerusalem as an undivided city, the eternal capital of Israel, and I believe in the principle of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.” He never reiterated this view as President...

...During the 2000 presidential campaign George W. Bush promised that as President he would immediately “begin the process of moving the United States ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital.” In June 2001, however, Bush followed Clinton’s precedent and used the presidential waiver to prevent the embassy from being moved...


61 posted on 07/30/2012 6:44:55 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: cynwoody
LOL @ Seamus! Romney seems to play to whatever audience he's speaking to. Kind of reminds me of a liberal, Duh...

Changing gears, there was a time when presidential candidates traveling to volatile regions of the world for the purpose of promoting their campaigns at expense of perceived unity, would have been ostracized. Now they all do it of course. It reflects more unfavorably on Mitt, IMO, who claims to promote leadership over partisanship. It also isn't smart to focus attention on Israel at a time when their neighbors are involved in civil wars.

Not that Mitt isn't right on occasion or that we or the world shouldn't know his position on the subject; his website, debates and interviews inside America are far better ways to accomphish that goal without adding fuel to the fires in the Middle East.

62 posted on 07/30/2012 8:33:14 AM PDT by Errant
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To: lonevoice

Very bold and very much appreciated. Thank you, Governor Romney.


63 posted on 07/30/2012 11:41:36 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Milagros

Mitt Romney is simply saying what reasonable minded people know, Jerusalem IS the capital of Israel.


64 posted on 07/30/2012 1:27:19 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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65 posted on 07/30/2012 1:32:44 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: BobL

Within the first 100 days of a Romney Presidency you’ve got to clean out that rats nest. They made Iraq and Afghanistan untenable and harm our interests throughout the world.


66 posted on 07/30/2012 5:29:25 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: jjotto

Petromail from SA and friends is the cause of this. It’s time to develop our own energy and ignore their threats.


67 posted on 07/30/2012 5:39:58 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

“Within the first 100 days of a Romney Presidency you’ve got to clean out that rats nest. They made Iraq and Afghanistan untenable and harm our interests throughout the world.”

I was FAR from a Romney fan during the Primaries, but he certainly seems to understand the Middle East a heck of a lot better than ANY president since Reagan...and maybe Reagan too.


68 posted on 07/30/2012 5:47:22 PM PDT by BobL ( It's easy to be a saint when you have nothing on the line)
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To: Milagros
In Israel, Romney declares Jerusalem to be capital

OOoooooooh!

Did he say that the sun would rise tomorrow, too??

69 posted on 07/30/2012 6:38:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: madison10
(Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)

Regarding your tagline:

Don’t worry, the way you talk about Mitt Romney he won’t be able to tell that you’re a Christian.

That's ok. Mitt couldn't tell that his chosen god was racist; either.

70 posted on 07/30/2012 6:40:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: madison10
(Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)

Regarding hertagline:


Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).
Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).
 
 
 
Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).
 
 
 
Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses
, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).
 
 
President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).
 
 
 
James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).
 
 
 
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).
 
 
 
More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).
 
 
 
President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).
 
 
President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

71 posted on 07/30/2012 6:41:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: madison10
Mitt couldn't tell that his chosen god was racist; either.





"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.



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.'



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.)



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."



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.



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).



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."



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)





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)

 



 



AFAIK, Mitt has made no statement of his chosen church's stand BEFORE he was 32 years old, or about it's changed stance AFTER that time.

72 posted on 07/30/2012 6:45:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Tennessee Nana

He’s not “my boy”;however, Obama is someone I do NOT want as my president for the next four years. Obama has already shown he’s a socialist without a conscience.

I’m willing to gamble on being called a “Gentile” by Mitt Romney rather than dealing with the death of my country at the hands of Obama.

Thank God, so far, we are still able to vote.


73 posted on 07/30/2012 7:08:19 PM PDT by madison10 (God Bless Chick-Fil-A ;))
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To: Southnsoul; Elsie

Willard

I do not believe he has a vindictive disdain for America, the Constitution, Christianity, and of course, Israel
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Source ???


74 posted on 07/30/2012 7:20:19 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: rcrngroup

I think it will be much harder for Romney to walk this back, after making a solid statement for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Just watch him...

he’ll make it look easy, just for you...

;)


75 posted on 07/30/2012 7:24:18 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Catsrus; Elsie

See #71

Willard “sustains” those teachings...


76 posted on 07/30/2012 7:28:28 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: cynwoody

When he gets back State-side, he should have lunch with Mr. Cathy
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I doubt if Conservative Mr Cathy would want to hang out with your Liberal Progressive Willie...

Mr Cathy is a moral man who disagrees with same sex marriage...

Why on Earth would the Christian man Mr Cathy want to be a hypocrite and align himself with the immoral Willard who pushes same sex marriage and homosexuals adopting ???


77 posted on 07/30/2012 7:34:53 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Why did Jesus meet and actually eat with sinners, might be a better question. Was it because Jesus saw himself as a sinner as well? No. Because he had love for all mankind - a rare human quality. Touche!


78 posted on 07/30/2012 10:43:21 PM PDT by Catsrus
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To: Tennessee Nana
Why on Earth would the Christian man Mr Cathy want to be a hypocrite and align himself with the immoral Willard who pushes same sex marriage and homosexuals adopting ???

Um, could it be Mr Cathy doesn't want a second Obama Regime ??? And, at this point in the election cycle, there is only one way to stave off that threat?

Also, let us not forget the value of celebrity endorsements, especially when the celebrity lands in the Oval Office. Quoth the endorser:

In some ways, it is fitting that I share this distinction with Truett Cathy. The Romney campaign comes to a sudden stop when we spot a Chick-fil-A. Your chicken sandwiches were our comfort food through the primary season, and there were days that we needed a lot of comforting. So, Truett, thank you and congratulations on your well-deserved honor today.

I doubt if Conservative Mr Cathy would want to hang out with your Liberal Progressive Willie...

He already did, last May 12, at Liberty U, of all places. See link above.

79 posted on 07/30/2012 11:49:56 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Catsrus
Touche!

But He did NOT tell them it was ok to continue the path they were on; but to "...go and sin no more."

80 posted on 07/31/2012 5:10:29 AM PDT by Elsie
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