Posted on 09/16/2012 1:39:22 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That's a worrisome message for the nation's first African-American president, who can't afford to lose any voters from his base in a tight race.
The pastors say their congregants are asking how a true Christian could back same-sex marriage, as President Barack Obama did in May. As for Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon nominee from a major party, congregants are questioning the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its former ban on men of African descent in the priesthood.
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Did you go and peruse that site to which I linked? That is my basis for believing there has been reconciliation.
If there had been no reconciliation, how do you explain the existence of Mia Love, et al?
Let’s cut the crap. Mormons don’t hate blacks.
Obamugabe got 94% of the black vote, the same as Jimmy Carter in 1980.
I think blacks vote 90% or more Democrat out of habit. What changed in 2008, I think, was TURNOUT, not percentage of those voting Democrat.
Frankly, I think the magic is gone for them...and while he will still carry 90% of the black vote, the turnout (real turnout, not dead/felon, etc.) will be lower.
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