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To: teppe
Why is this news?

(Why don't you take the time to ask MSNBC -- and the dozens of OTHER media outlets who will be picking up this story?)

Perhaps it hasn't something to do, Teppe, with the reality that we know of only ONE GoP presidential candidate who has now advocated for the overhaul of one-man, one-woman marriage...and that's Jon Huntsman, a Mormon.

Oh...hold it...allow me to refine that a bit...Huntsman might be the FIRST GoP candidate to attack one-man, one-woman marriage, but he is the SECOND Mormon to attack one-man, one-woman marriage...'cause in 1844...Joseph Smith the polygamist was a self-proclaimed candidate for POTUS!

37 posted on 02/22/2013 12:24:10 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
Joseph Smith the polygamist was a self-proclaimed candidate for POTUS!




...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’

Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.

58 posted on 02/22/2013 2:14:07 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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