Posted on 10/06/2012 5:48:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- the Mormons. Not being Mormon but having lived most of my 53 years in Utah, the seat of the religion, I would like to offer a perspective on having a Mormon as President of the United States.
This question takes on a greater sense of importance with recent reports that the de facto American political truce against attacks on a candidate's religion has been breached by means of a telephone campaign slandering Romney's Mormonism.
I grew up in rural Utah, in a town that was (and is) about 80% Mormon. I went to college in another rural Utah town, somewhat more cosmopolitan because of the university, but the non-student population was still about 80% Mormon. After two post-college years in Massachusetts, I returned to the Salt Lake City valley, which is now around 52% Mormon.
While working as the CEO of the company I co-founded upon returning to Utah, I have hired many people, Mormon and non-Mormon, and have had both working at all levels of the company. Given a lifelong exposure to and interaction with members of "The Church," I have one very solid observation to make: Mormons are no different from non-Mormons...............
[Big SNIP]
We have now suffered through nearly four years of an utterly incompetent, Islamophilic president desecrating and destroying much of what most of us hold dear about this country. Though as a libertarian I do not fully agree with Mitt Romney's politics, the thought of having him as a Mormon president of the United States is a very comforting one indeed.
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It SOUNDED right when you typed it; and, by golly, it is SPELLED right; but did you mean WAVE?
Yup, you caught me.
Rats!
I was hoping for some sly observation of The One!
[ Agreed I was sort of dancing here. LDS is closer to scientology than Christianity. ]
If the president is breifed on aliens in Area 51 once they get sworn in, I would think a Mormon would be more likely to disclose that fact to the american people than a socialist pile of crap control freak like Obaaaaaaaa-maaaaaa..
[ My point is it doesnt matter to how Romney will run the country. From that perspective LDS is probably a tiny bit better than scientology. ]
It is a LOT easier to leave Mormonism than it is to leave Scientology, I have heard some horror stories about people leaving the Cult.... I mean “Church” of Scientology.
I have known a few “Lapsed Mormons” who just drift away from it with no people in bikes visiting them at all odd hours of the night demanding they bring jell-o and fruit salad to the temple on sunday.....
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