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Posted on 07/26/2007 5:03:33 PM PDT by tantiboh
Democratic political consultant Mark Mellman has a very good piece up today at The Hill on the baffling and illegitimate opposition among voters to Mitt Romney due to his religion. I liked his closing paragraphs:
In July of 1958, 24 percent of respondents told Gallup they would not vote for a Catholic for president, almost identical to Gallups reading on Mormons today. Two years later, John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic to assume the oath of office. Within eight months, the number refusing to vote for a Catholic was cut almost in half.
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Mellman also discusses an interesting poll he helped construct, in which the pollsters asked half of their respondents whether they would support a candidate with certain characteristics, and asked the other half about another candidate with the exact same characteristics, with one difference. The first candidate was Baptist, the second candidate was Mormon. The Baptist had a huge advantage over the Mormon candidate, by about 20 points.
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However, more recent polls have attempted to fix the anonymity problem. A recent Time Magazine poll (read the original report here), for example, got to the heart of the question by asking respondents if they are less likely to vote for Mitt Romney specifically because he is a Mormon. The result is not as bad as some reporting on the poll has suggested. For example, while 30% of Republicans say they are less likely to vote for Romney because of his religion, fully 15% of other Republicans say that characteristic makes them more likely to vote for him. And while many have reported the finding that 23% of Republicans are worried by Romneys Mormonism, the more important (but less-reported) number is that 73% say they hold no such reservations...
(Excerpt) Read more at romneyexperience.com ...
You stated: “Kinda like your organization treated BLACKS until, viola![sic], a revelation occured [sic].”
Not really, it is kinda like God’s treatment of Gentiles until, “voila!,” a revelation occurred.
Why do you give a flying leap about declaring for everyone on Free Republic that you intend to not vote for a Mormon for POTUS?
PS How enlightened that you will consider other offices as they arise. What our country needs is more voters with your bigoted mindset. NOT.
Thank you for reaffirming my point. Cheerfully giving just doesn’t cut it, does, it?
(I think we could ALL claim some of this!)
Thank GOD for your Guardian Angel!!!
Glad you all made it safely!
(Did you see what then happened to the 4wd vehicle??)
Sadly; there are those even among Protestants!!
It reminds me of this:
NIV 1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah said to them, "I am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
10. He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
14. He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
16. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.
17. Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.
18. Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel--all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him."
>>>>”Why do you give a flying leap about declaring for everyone on Free Republic that you intend to not vote for a Mormon for POTUS?”<<<<
Maybe it was because he, and the rest of us, were asked? Did you READ this thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872180/posts?page=1#1
But the constant smudging of facts and declaring BY not guilty for any of it is wrong.
No innocent man would cover up the murder of 100+ innocent people for over a dozen years. His actions after the fact convict him of his acts before the murders.
The records speaks for itself. If you are going to dredge up this issue again, I am going to quote your words for all to see what you said and let them judge for themselves.
P.S. Isn’t it proper etiquette to ping a freeper when you refer to him or her?
Mormons are great Americans.
(No, I’m not a Mormon.)
We don't know that yet. Carter's undermining of the Shah of Iran gave us the resurgence of islammunism in the world that is this country's number one struggle. Shoehorning the Ayatollah into power in Iran was Carter's biggest mistake, in a Presidency chock full of them. It was the only one that Ronald Reagan was unable to fix.
You know as well as I do that is not biblcal.
“What our country needs is more voters with your bigoted mindset. NOT.”
big·ot (bgt)
n.
One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
According to this, pro-lifers are bigots! So are mormons.
So is everyone who believes in truth.
I am also a pro-life bigot for POTUS.
I am also a REPUBLICAN bigot for POTUS.
I am not a Dairy Queen member or bus rider.
Don't you KNOW that JS' name had been REMOVED from the book that you poor gentiles have received from the Catholic church??
You should feel BLESSED that so MANY blessed truths of GOD have been restored by our Living Prophet®(s)!
How ELSE would we know to do the Temple rites that we do, if they had NOT been written in our HOLY books???
--MormonDude(They're in there: trust me.)
Be vary wary of this one. I have been accused of a hate crime.
I DO know something about Dairy Queens however. The Bishop in my town was the owner of the one and only, fast food, drive-in type of eating establishment in a very active tourist community (which is a long way of sayin he was busy and his business was lucrative.)
Going down mainstreet to the Dairy Queen to watch the icecream drip was an approved activity. He also only hired the best-looking girls in town to work for him. HMMMMMmmmmm
Now you seem to be threatening me, based on a paranoid idea that I am somehow referrencing YOU. I think you owe me an apology.
Don’t forget on your list that you are a religious bigot for POTUS and “lesser offices” as well.
Really? A threat? I didn’t realize you feel so “threatened” by your own words?
After AMPU pings you to our dialogue, you respond:
“Be vary wary of this one. I have been accused of a hate crime.”
You and I both know what this references, don’t we?
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