Posted on 09/02/2012 7:39:20 PM PDT by aposiopetic
BOSTON — The head of the prominent Marriott hotel chain and fellow Mormon J.W. Marriott thanked Mitt Romney today during a Mormon church service for bringing “positive attention” to the religion, which is often considered to be shrouded in mystery.
“There has never been as much positive attention to the church, thanks to the wonderful campaign of Mitt Romney and his family,” Marriott said during a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wolfeboro, N.H., the lakeside town where the Romney family has a home.
Marriott’s remarks come after a noticeable shift in the campaign to highlight Romney’s faith, a subject that has been rarely spoken about publicly by the candidate and his wife until last week, when both mentioned Mormonism in their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Additionally, several speakers arranged by the campaign to appear at the RNC highlighted the candidate’s strong ties to his faith.
Romney and Ann Romney, who sat six rows back in the church this morning, showed little reaction to Marriott’s testimony, according to a small group of reporters who accompanied the couple inside.
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fruits as in fruit cakes... LDS are seemingly big hypocrites if they want to even pretend they oppose homosexual practice.
“If a Cardinal, Bishop or prominent Catholic layperson said the exact same thing to Rep. Paul Ryan, would you find it odd, mysterious, significant or conspiratorial?”
The Catholics, for all their problems, aren’t a massive secretive religious cult that is anti-Christian, extraordinarily controlling, engages in brainwashing, and systematically deceives its followers and the world about its own teachings and history. Well, unless you believe the Dan Brown books and think that the Catholics have a division of Albino Monks trained to kill uppity, smug liberals who imagine things in the Mona Lisa and Last Supper paintings.
Been reading your comments. I’ve learned some things about the Mormon church from this thread. It has me in a real quandry now. But, I still would NEVER vote for Obama. From your comments, am I correct in thinking you will not be voting for Romney.
“The religion is Christianity. Mormon (Later Day Saints) is a denomination like Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Amish, Presbyterian, etc.
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What the hell! There’s been threads on Mormonism on this forum going as far back as 2003 or earlier, literally thousands of them and there are STILL people who think Mormonism is a ‘Christian’ denomination?
Get educated, dude. If Mormonism is Christianity, so is Islam and the Moonies.
“LDS winks broadly at the gay crowd. Technically they shouldn’t. They never got themselves one of their famous revelation updates telling them to do an about face on homosexuality.”
It dovetails with Romney’s efforts to discourage abortions amongst his coreligionists during his governorship. The ‘gentiles’ are aided and even subsidized along sterile, declining population paths. But not their own. Quite the opposite. Think it through a few generations. It appears to be an agenda.
“Depends of course who you ask. Catholics lump them along with all evangelicals as heretics. Lutheran? Mormon? It’s all out there somewhere in hell to them.”
Catholics don’t accept Mormon baptism and consider them damned. The Catholics do not consider non-Catholics to be hell bound. Maybe deceived, wayward brothers, but not infidels outside of salvation, at least as I understand Vatican II.
Don’t know about theology, but an individual who has been baptised in the name of the Trinity is considered Christian by Catholics—they are part of the Church, if not the fullness of it, and Christians because of this, at least to my understanding. So if a Baptist wants to be a Catholic he or she doesn’t have get Baptised again; they are already Christian. The Baptist tradition is Christian Baptism, the understanding of the Trinity is Christian.
As far as LDS, I think they seem to be outstanding as far as their voting habits generally. I believe they voted against Reid handily in NV against Angle.
Freegards
I don’t regard November’s election as being a vote for anybody who will in turn save a soul. I regard it as a vote for stewardship of Caesar’s affairs only. I plan to put a clothespin on my nose and punch a straight R ticket with the idea in mind that this is a vote for a more flexible situation for conservatives to work with than a passive act tending to keep Obama in office would be. If Romney does something really stupid like try overtly to recruit more Mormons from his candidate pulpit, that could change. Romney is not supposed to mix his church with state any more than Barack is supposed to mix his God Damn America with state.
“They believe Jesus is the Son of God and are therefor totally saved but “legalistic “ beyond belief!!Not necessary. All Are saved by belief- John 3:16”
Wrong! After thoousands of threads what’s it going to take to stop this foolish claim? The Mormons believe Jesus is A “son of God,” so is Lucifer, so are you, so are me. They believe God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are literally three different persons, not the same God, and they do not believe Jesus Christ died for our sins to be saved through faith. They believe he WEPT and SWEAT blood for our sins and died so we could be free from Adam’s sin, but not necessarily from our own. We have to be baptized by Mormons, who claim to be Priests with the only authority on Earth to do so, and that they must follow Mormon rituals, learn secret handshakes, avoid cokes and coffee, and obey all the Mormon commands their prophets give in order to attain Celestial “eternal life,” which they define as an eternal progression to godhood. Infidels are sent to “lesser” heavens and live forever, but they do not have access to become gods.
A trifle cynical? But it seems as good an explanation as anything else. Let all those non Mormons, Darwin themselves away.
Pressure will need to be kept on Mitt to try to avert such behavior from Washington. It’s still a more flexible situation than the stiffly Marxist Obama. The time of a dozen choices is over with the primaries. Mitt’s the pick for worse or better.
“I will add one more positive for the Church of LDS today. I’ve been trying (with some degree of failure) to research my Dad’s side of the family. Virtually all of the genealogy sites charge or at least require registration. The Mormons’ site is absolutely free. Sometimes, all you need is a name & thanks to them, I found that name which took me all the way back to Ireland. They’re not money-grubbers, for sure.”
The Mormons use the system so they can baptize your dead parents into the Mormon religion. They market themselves well so they can get you to join, be baptized, and then pay 10 percent of your gross income, not to mention you have to volunteer to work in Mormon business ventures when “called,” literally, by the LDS. At least, you do that if you want to get the Temple recommend and access to the Celestial Heaven.
It is called the exposure of mormonism, not pig-headiness.
The exposure of mormonism is a good thing, hopefully even mormons who do not know the foundation and inner teachings see God Almighty’s Light and flee the blasphemy, called mormonism.
And you would be wrong.
And, may I assure you, Jeff Head knows Mormonism. He doesn't need you to explain it to him.
And I don’t need to tell me that Jeff knows mormonism, he has learned his lessons well.
I know mormonism, apparently you do not.
“A trifle cynical?”
Trifle? You cut me most cruelly, sir. But it does resolve an *apparent* inconsistency into something that is coherent and logical. It even allows a legalist to wash his hands of the matter on the grounds that ‘they did this to themselves, I did not do it to them’.
Fabian demographics. Margaret Sanger would understand.
The question unanswered is, what does the Mitt situation have to do with this.
Romney never discouraged abortions. He supports abortion and in his state provided free to low cost.
mormnism is not pro-life, when you read all their qualifiers.
I’d say that would be cynical of Mitt. If he did that with such an idea in mind.
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