[MissesBush]

Oh please. You’re a fanatic with the Mormon hate. Take a pill. What happened? Did a Mormon guy steal your girlfriend from you years ago? There’s nothing racist about Romney or the LDS faith. It is one of the fastest growing religions in black Africa. Not even the loons at MessNBC used such slander against Romney. Meanwhile as you call the LDS religion “racist” many Southern Protestant congregations are still segregated by color. And shall we get into the role many Southern Protestants, ministers and congregations included, played in fighting desegregation? To be fair, some helped fight for it too.

Regardless the LDS Church or its past wasn’t even brought up in the campaign other than by a tiny nut fringe like you no one gave 2 second’s worth of attention to. And no one who’s run for President in the last half century has more bigotry in his past than Obama and his long term friendship with Rev. Wright and his white hating, Jew bashing sermons. If Obama can win despite that then a long abandoned policy by the LDS on Blacks holding the priesthood wouldn’t have mattered to anyone. The problem is the US news media and the cult of personality they’ve helped to create around Obama, that his record of scandal and failure are covered up and anyone who dares oppose him is destroyed.

[greyfoxx39]

Oh please. Mitt lost. The "mormon moment" became a mormon fail. The GOP turned a blind eye to the actual strength/vote fraud of Obama because it was Mitt's turn.

Choosing political consultants and operatives based on the holding of "temple recommends" the way mormon businesses do resulted in Mitt's egocentric belief that he is "the one mighty and strong" to the point that he didn't even have a concession speech prepared.

"Romney had not written a concession speech as of Tuesday afternoon, but was forced to acknowledge his loss after midnight on Wednesday morning. In less than five minutes, Romney ticked all of the historical concession-speech boxes: accept defeat, congratulate victor, look forward, call for unity."

As to racism in mormonism, when the first black member of the "twelve" is ordained, ping me.

Your claim, "There’s nothing racist about Romney or the LDS faith. It is one of the fastest growing religions in black Africa." has no basis in fact. Kenya for example:

Note the actual numbers in the Adventist and JWs versus the paltry mormon number.

Major Religious Groups Kenya

#	Faith	Congregations	Active Members	Adherents	Percent	Annual Growth
1	Protestant	0	0	11924597	38.00%	1.53%
2	Catholic	0	0	8786545	28.00%	1.53%
3	indigenous beliefs	0	0	8158935	26.00%	1.53%
4	Muslim	0	0	2196636	7.00%	1.53%
5	other	0	0	313805	1.00%	1.53%
6	Jehovah's Witnesses	280	15018	41861	0.13%	1.53%
7	Seventh-day Adventists	2398	573700	1147400	3.66%	19.00%
8	Latter-day Saints	31	2437	8124	0.026%	8.07%

Country religious adherents data courtesy of the World Factbook.LDS membership and unit data are derived from the LDS Church Almanac. Seventh-day Adventist statistics are from the Adventist yearbook statistical reports. Jehovah's Witness data are from the Jehovah's Witness yearly statistical report. Other data are from a variety of sources available upon request.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kenya

Official LDS Statistics LDS Members: 8124 Missions: 1 Temples: 0 Stakes: 1 Districts: 1 Wards: 5 Branches: 26 Total Congregations: 31

Derived LDS Statistics Approx. Active Members: 2437 Percentage of Members Attending Church Weekly: 30% Average members per congregation: 262 Average active members per congregation: 78 LDS, as percent of population: 0.0258% Active LDS, as percent of population: 0.0077% LDS, as percentage of churchgoers: 0% National population per LDS congregation: 1012274

Annual LDS Membership Growth Kenya

#	Year	Members	Annual Growth Rate	Wards	Branches	Units	Unit Growth Rate	Proportionality Ratio
1	1990	300	0%	0	3	3	0%	0
2	1992	500	25%	0	3	3	0%	0
3	1994	1400	47.37%	0	11	11	57.14%	1.206
4	1996	2200	22.22%	0	14	14	12%	0.54
5	1998	2800	12%	0	13	13	-3.7%	-0.308
6	2000	4039	18.12%	0	17	17	13.33%	0.735
7	2002	5508	15.39%	5	16	21	10.52%	0.683
8	2004	6285	6.59%	5	20	25	8.69%	1.318
9	2006	7340	7.74%	5	22	27	3.84%	0.496
10	2008	8124	5.07%	5	26	31	6.89%	1.358

LDS membership and unit data 1976-2000 from Mark Davies' WW-LDS

There is nothing to boast about in an average growth of 500 members in 16 years of which approximately 30% are active.