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Will Pres Romney Expose Illegal 'Mormon' Polygamy?
The Conservative Posts ^ | July 2, 2007 | J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Posted on 07/02/2007 7:53:54 AM PDT by tnarg

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1 posted on 07/02/2007 7:53:56 AM PDT by tnarg
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Not to worry, there won’t be a President Mitt Romney.


2 posted on 07/02/2007 7:55:10 AM PDT by madison10
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Mormons banned polygamy about 100 years ago. (I’m sure someone will correct me on the date.) Should we ask all Christian candidates to denounce the Malleus Maleficarum while we are at it?
3 posted on 07/02/2007 7:56:38 AM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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Officially the Salt Lake City headquarters crew banned it because American law would not permit it.

Yet it still exists under the label “Mormon” and so forth.

Will Romney, if elected, do something about this child abuse clot?

That’s the question, not whether the official Mormon headquarters banned it or not. Yes, they banned it. Yet it still exists as a radical appendage of their history.


4 posted on 07/02/2007 7:59:08 AM PDT by tnarg
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Another non-federal issue being bumped up to DC. Let’s just do away with state government. I volunteer Calif. and Mass. to go first


5 posted on 07/02/2007 8:00:33 AM PDT by herMANroberts
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Child abuse is the concern of every branch of our government, at least it should be.


6 posted on 07/02/2007 8:01:41 AM PDT by tnarg
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To: madison10

In today’s world, one can predict nothing.


7 posted on 07/02/2007 8:02:50 AM PDT by tnarg
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With homosexual lifestyles being considered morally acceptable by some mainstream Protestant denominations as well as segments of Roman Catholicism, some advocate that polygamy should then be morally accepted.

Bad logic. The homosexual lifestyle may be considered acceptable by some in the Catholic Church, they do so against the teachings of the Church. Many Protestants agree that it has never been acceptable. Besides, having some consider something acceptable does not make it morally acceptable.

"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong, and right is right even if nobody is right." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

8 posted on 07/02/2007 8:04:28 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (Sour grapes make terrible whine.)
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Ditto to your post.


9 posted on 07/02/2007 8:05:43 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Child abuse is a crime. It is not a federal crime by any definition I know of unless you have a nationwide conspiracy or something is being done internationally.

Your response weakly attempts to imply that if the feds don't police child abuse, they don't care. Nice try, but no cigar.

10 posted on 07/02/2007 8:06:11 AM PDT by herMANroberts
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To: GCC Catholic

You express exactly my point.

I do not disagree with your statement.

What I have stated in my post is not bad logic. Instead, my post exposes the wrong positions of liberal Protestants and segments of Roman Catholicism endorsement of evil.

If you mean “bad logic” as related to liberals—political and theological—I agree with you that their logic is both bad and evil.


11 posted on 07/02/2007 8:08:13 AM PDT by tnarg
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Did FDR, LBj,Reagan, Bush, Clinton ,Carter did anything on the issue of polygamy.

Or is it only Romney that has to take some action.

BTW, you just joined the site recently, already an attempted hit piece on Romney, pretty strange indeed.


12 posted on 07/02/2007 8:08:28 AM PDT by GregH
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Yes, that's what I was getting at... I assumed that was not your logic. It is bad and evil logic for segments of Mormonism to claim that polygamy is ok because some liberal Protestants and Catholics claim homosexuality is ok.

Sorry for the confusion.

13 posted on 07/02/2007 8:10:36 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (Sour grapes make terrible whine.)
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I don’t see anything ‘strange’ about being ‘new’ or posting about Romney.

BTW, other presidents should have done something about the subject of my post.

The point is that now if Mormon Romney is in the Oval Office, will he take the moral “bulls by the horns” so as to eliminate child abuse in an appendage of the Mormon history? This would be his perfect chance to do what others have neglected.


14 posted on 07/02/2007 8:10:52 AM PDT by tnarg
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There are plenty of polygamy colonies elsewhere besides Utah and Arizona:

The Apostolic United Order has approximately 5,000 members, many of whom live in the community at Pineville, Montana, and the several Mexican colonies.

I have visited the colony in Pineville, MT. There are plenty of one-family polygamists elsewhere in Big Sky country, too.

15 posted on 07/02/2007 8:11:08 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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To: GCC Catholic

gotcha.

thanks.


16 posted on 07/02/2007 8:11:52 AM PDT by tnarg
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To: CholeraJoe

None of these child abuse colonies should exist in America.


17 posted on 07/02/2007 8:12:30 AM PDT by tnarg
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Agreed. The attitude of local law enforcement is “Live and Let Live.” Without witnesses to testify, enforcement becomes impossible. Our tax dollars support them since most of the women and children receive public assistance.


18 posted on 07/02/2007 8:16:21 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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You stated what we all should put at the forefront of this issue along with the obviuos child abuse:

“Our tax dollars support them since most of the women and children receive public assistance.”

Thanks for the emphasis.


19 posted on 07/02/2007 8:18:01 AM PDT by tnarg
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What a stupid premise for an article. I'm not saying that pointing out the problem is stupid, but the lead presents the situation as one that is 1) a federal issue, and yet 2) something that only Romney, of all the candidates, needs to address.

If it's a pressing federal issue, than all candidates need to be asked the question. If it isn't, then none of the candidates need to be asked.

It would be a totally different story if the author could make some case that Romney, if elected, would either encourage the practices or at least use the weight of the federal government to discourage law enforcement efforts. But the author didn't, choosing instead to make the lazy connection Romney's religion vs. the fact that these nutjobs cloak themselves in a religious facade.

It's garbage like this that allows the Romney supporters to play the "victim" card.

20 posted on 07/02/2007 8:18:35 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Government is too important to leave up to the government" - Fred Dalton Thompson)
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