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Romney denounces pastor slated to speak at US embassy in Jerusalem
The Hill ^ | 05/13/18 10:50 PM | BRANDON CONRADIS

Posted on 05/13/2018 9:31:46 PM PDT by conservative98

Senate candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) on Sunday night denounced the pastor expected to speak at Monday's ceremony celebrating the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.

"Robert Jeffress says 'you can’t be saved by being a Jew,' and 'Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell.' He’s said the same about Islam. Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem," Romney tweeted.

Jeffress, a Dallas-based pastor and known supporter of President Trump, said over the weekend that he would be leading the prayer at the dedication of the new embassy. Trump announced in December that he was relocating the embassy to Jerusalem, a move that drew international condemnation and sparked concerns of a widening conflict in the Middle East.

According to a report from Haaretz, Jeffress has made derogatory remarks about Islam in the past, calling it "a religion that promotes pedophilia" and a "heresy from the pit of hell."

He has also called Mormonism "a cult" that is not a true part of Christianity and said "you can't be saved by being a Jew," Haaretz reported.

Jeffress endorsed Romney, who is Mormon, for president back in 2012, despite derogatory comments the pastor made at the time about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: islam; jeffress; jerusalem; mittromney; mormon; robertjeffress; romney; romney2018; trump
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To: altura

Give us an example where he’s a radical

I hate to break it to you but per Christian scripture and beliefs

Everything he said was accurate

He’s no radical , he is the truth

It amazes me what little freepers know about literal Christianity


61 posted on 05/13/2018 10:53:21 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: faithhopecharity

The pastor didn’t say “by a Jew”


62 posted on 05/13/2018 10:54:55 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

Good post


63 posted on 05/13/2018 10:55:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: DoughtyOne

+1


64 posted on 05/13/2018 10:56:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: wardaddy

Thank you wardaddy.


65 posted on 05/13/2018 10:58:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Romney on Trump...University of Utah on March 3, 2016.

... “Let me put it plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.Dishonesty is Trump’s hallmark… His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader. His imagination must not be married to real power.”

As a side note:... A Bloomberg investigation calculated the LDS Church’s worth at $40 billion—five years ago.....the election of Mormons to Gov. office is a major point in their agenda. Thus creating ‘political consent’ in granting development deals they say are financially beneficial to the community while helping the Mormon Church make tax-free money.

Additionally according to mormans (’White Horse Prophecy’ that one day the U.S. Constitution would “hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber” waiting to be saved by a Mormon hero...)they think Romney is that hero and why they keep pushing him out there over and over again....


66 posted on 05/13/2018 11:04:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: altura

I wouldn’t consider him radical however he speaks directly and candidly which can put off people who are sensitive about social issues etc. and political correctness.

He is right in what he says.


67 posted on 05/13/2018 11:17:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: DoughtyOne; Elsie
I was not aware they had their own Jesus figure. Ouch.

They will never admit that, but it’s true.

68 posted on 05/13/2018 11:19:47 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Southnsoul

Per Christianity Jews are like anyone else in that they need to accept Christ as their savior for salvation

Where this notion Jews are saved simply by birthright comes from....well isn’t that Hageeism and maybe this new pope?

It always tickles me how much well meaning Christians obsess Jews like a Girlfriend who left them

Liberal secular Jews in the West detest literalist Christians more than anything including Muslims

They think we all dream of racks, pogroms and box cars....

Yet many 21st century evangelicals truly fixate over all things Jews

I was raised in the same denomination of this pastor about 400 miles due east along Hwy 80

We didn’t fret about Jews....we didn’t consider them Christ killers or our enemies And when the klan bombed their temple we took them in

But we didn’t focus on them....they were their own thing.....and good luck....they are taking a chance was our view

There was no envy cause we weren’t chosen like they were

Televangelist changed all that

Interesting

I’m very grateful for support Trump gets in Israel


69 posted on 05/13/2018 11:22:08 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: conservative98

Did McCain already kick the bucket and take over Romney’s body?


70 posted on 05/13/2018 11:26:43 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanceh)
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To: Mark17

Thanks Mark17.


71 posted on 05/13/2018 11:35:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: DoughtyOne
Romney thinks all religions are the same?

I'd rather be a bigot than an idiot.

Shut up mittens.

Bagster

The Lesser Oracle

72 posted on 05/14/2018 12:12:17 AM PDT by bagster (The Bagster Alliance is insidous. The B clique is mighty.)
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To: faithhopecharity

READ.

He DID NOT say “...can’t be saved by a Jew...”; he said, “... can’t be saved by BEING a Jew.”

WORLD of difference!


73 posted on 05/14/2018 12:13:08 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: conservative98

Romney is such an a-hole


74 posted on 05/14/2018 12:15:30 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: conservative98

Gee Romney, Mormonism has is labeled a Christian Cult, there are even a ton of book on the subject.


75 posted on 05/14/2018 12:56:04 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: reasonisfaith

Good analogy.


76 posted on 05/14/2018 2:01:45 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: proust

Pastor of First Baptist Dallas and not afraid to tell it like it is. Teaches right out of the Bible. Homosexuals hate him.


77 posted on 05/14/2018 2:35:28 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (A moral wrong cannot be a Civil Right.)
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To: conservative98

So this is his campaign strategy? To be a skunk at the garden party?

Utah, you have a choice.


78 posted on 05/14/2018 3:07:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: conservative98

Robert Jeffress ...... I hope he speaks in Jerusalem and I am Jewish. I am supposed be offended by him? Screw Mitt Romney.


79 posted on 05/14/2018 3:12:16 AM PDT by dennisw (The fruity Doc is missing a few erarings.)
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To: heights

Yep. The book of moron tries way too hard to sound biblical. Comes off sounding fake and artificial compared to the authentic Word.


80 posted on 05/14/2018 3:13:36 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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