I bow to your superior recall, oh Great One!
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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 Gallup’s 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 Romney’s Mormonism, the more important (but less-reported) number is that 73% say they hold no such reservations...
(Excerpt) Read more at romneyexperience.com ...
Christ in Emmaus
http://www.byu.tv/index.html?start=55.494&stop=179.90800000000001&show=&ep=http://qmplive.xlontech.net/byutv/stream/070723.qvt
The weird thing is, they think this dialog is actually gaining them converts. They will never reach 2% of the population (except in Utah and Idaho)
It's a pyramid scheme for those who try to crawl, and kiss @$$ to get to the top. I'm sure many think this is earning them brownie points in the Celestial Kingdom.
I bow to your superior recall, oh Great One!
??
You mock us!
You surely DO HATE us!
Don't you KNOW, that the LDS organization does NOT contain complete TRUTH (yet)!
I'm sure you realize that the present (or a future) Living Prophet® could translate even MORE TRUTH into the poorly translated (and stolen from) KJV of the Bible.
When this occurs, no doubt you'll find that GW and AL were, indeed, faithful Mormon's and pre-Mormon's; for their names WILL be ensconced into our Holy Scriptures for all the world to see!
--MormonDude(and proud of it!)
I'm missing the connection!!
Ahhhh! Thunderbird Coffee in the morning. Sorry I had to walk over to the coffee shack and was gone for a few minutes. I’ll need to be gone again as I have a water turn at 6:00.
04/07/1958 EVERLY BROTHERS. A location statement. You had to be there to get the meaning. Dream! Dream Dream Dream!
Oh my Heck.
Swanson suggests that Joseph Smith learned of his holy ancestry through divine revelation and shared his secret with a handful of Mormon leaders. Swanson also believes Smith’s famous “no man knows my history” quote was a veiled reference to his sacred lineage.
Swanson admits he can’t prove the LDS Church’s first president was descended from Christ. He also concedes that if Jesus indeed fathered children, millions of his descendants could be alive today. Swanson says he came to his conclusion by weaving together circumstantial threads from history and hopes to correct errors in a future edition.
“I’m inching towards the truth. I haven’t found the truth. I have no hard evidence,” says the art historian and scholar. “I wish I could say I had some secret evidence that no one else has.”
HMmm...
Any relation to:
Janet and Nick Nelson?
GMTA!
Vern is a friend that needs a body and mind flush. He is on our Executive Advisory Board for our foundation. It’s slightly embarrassing as we really get the giggles when listening to his theories. He fits into the water carrying category as he indeed thinks he is GA material. They’re laughing at him and he doesn’t know. Sad.
"All your syntax belong to us."
--theNotSoGreatKarnac
Ah!
NOW I get it!
(But it was a VISION; not a DREAM!)
[I have it on good AUTHORITY]
Not NEEDED???
Heck, they ain't AUTHORIZED!!!
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself adelivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I bsaw two cPersonages, whose brightness and dglory defy all description, estanding above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My fBeloved gSon. Hear Him!18 My object in going to ainquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all awrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those bprofessors were all ccorrupt; that: “they ddraw near to me with their lips, but their ehearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the fcommandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the gpower thereof.”20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself alying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, bmother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
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