Posted on 05/30/2008 4:25:42 PM PDT by Revelation 911
Bush to meet with LDS leadersPresident Bush chatted for nearly an hour Thursday with LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson about issues including U.S. foreign policy, Middle East peace, the economy and energy, according to White House press secretary Dana Perino.
The Mormon leader also mentioned his long-standing friendship with Bush's parents, Perino said.
The meeting at Monson's office in the LDS Church Administration Building in downtown Salt Lake City began around 8:30 a.m. At about 9:40 a.m., Bush's motorcade emerged from underground parking on North Temple and headed straight for the airport.
The courtesy call was Bush's first meeting with Monson and his two counselors, Henry B. Eyring and Dieter President Bush waves as he disembarks Marine One Thursday in Salt Lake City for a meeting with Mormon church leaders. The president visited Utah for two fundraisers Wednesday on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (Douglas C. Pizac/The Associated Press)F. Uchtdorf, since they were installed in February after the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley.
Monson, who was first counselor to Hinckley in the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was present during 2005 and 2006 meetings between Bush and Mormon leaders. In 2002, Monson joined Hinckley in greeting Bush before he attended the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games.
On Wednesday, Monson, Uchtdorf and Julie B. Beck, general president of the church's women's Relief Society, got a personal tour of Air Force One. "He meets with [the First Presidency] regularly and thinks that they have a good role to play in America, in terms of spreading the word of love," Perino said Wednesday. "I don't think the president would ever pass up an opportunity to meet with the president of the Mormon church." pstack@sltrib.com
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good grief
Thanks for the ping.
I’m going to take a long nap. Wake me if the question is actually answered....
This day just gets stranger and stranger.
:>)
Next it’ll be Jesus and the Seven Dwarves
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well that interesting - frank shows up to comment strongly just after old mountain man gets booted
ROTFL....don't give anyone any ideas, please!
You said: Was Christ a coven leader of a gang of gnostic witches from Israel? Is that what Mormons believe?
Just wow. Pretty scary stuff there. I would think good faithful Mormons would cringe.
Alright, what is with the (OPEN) already?
Maybe this guy is a "famous mormon" in real life?
I think that has to be the strangest post I have ever read on free republic.
Are you suggesting that Frank Fantasia is not a good faithful Mormon?
I’m just flabbergasted. I mean I have seen some weird religious beliefs on FR, outside the mainstream, before (eg. UFOTheology) but I have to admit that just totally floored me.
It’s like “open” golf or tennis tournaments. You don’t need to be invited to play.
Sleepy, Dopey, Sneezy, .....
Who were the 7? I’m drawing a blank past the above 3.
Sermon Title: “Which of Jesus’ 7 Dwarves are YOU?!”
Hie ho! hie ho.... it’s off to kolob we go.....
Thanks
****Sleepy, Dopey, Sneezy,****
Don’t forget the lost one: Heresy.
Don’t get too excieted OMM will return!:)
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