a.) How many people agree with you sufficiently to take the chance of Clinton winning?
I’ve heard Christian talk show hosts (on Christian radio) and read blogs that state the same concerns that I have. They would rather see a Democrat win than give legitimacy to a false religion. For us, the higher and more important issue is an eternal one.
b.) Would you concede that your position is coloring your perception of Romney’s chances in the general?
I haven’t really stated my beliefs about his chances for winning the election. I believe that the problems with his inconsistencies on the important issues is just as troubling to main-stream conservatives, and thus will ruin his chances of winning the primary.
“They would rather see a Democrat win than give legitimacy to a false religion. For us, the higher and more important issue is an eternal one.”
Elect the democrats and you will have them cutting into your freedom to worship, restricting you from living your faith, erasing America’s Christian culture, and indoctrinating every man, woman, and child they can in secularism and homosexuality. You don’t think that will have eternal consequences on anyone? It will, and they won’t have a whole lot of choice about it.
A faithful LDS POTUS on the other hand would defend your religious liberty, including your right to go out and attach the church he belongs to.
It really is insulting of Americans to suggest that just because the POTUS is a Mormon that they will jump to the conclusion that Mormonism is true, give up smoking, refuse alcohol, go to church for 3 hours every Sunday, pay tithes to the church, dress modestly, reject abortion, and refuse to engage in sexual relations outside of a traditional marriage.
How does an LDS POTUS give any more legitimacy to the church than other successfully Mormons like Orson Scott Card, Steve Young, Gladys Knight? What about people who live beside or work with faithful Mormons, they get to see up close and personal how legitimate our faith is.
If you really want to keep people from finding out what we are like, you are going to have to round us all up in camps and put guards around us so you can demonize us without people having a real life Mormon around to compare to the image you want to sell.
When you’ve done that with us, will you be going after Jews next? Don’t they keep people from finding Christ too?