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To: Colofornian

I would personally not vote for someone who was Mormon, Scientologist, Muslim, Moonie, Krishna, etc.

It’s not bigotry, it’s my right as an American to vote my conscience.


2 posted on 01/12/2011 11:35:06 AM PST by porter_knorr (John Adams would be arrested for his thoughts on tyrants today!)
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To: porter_knorr

Hell I’d take a satanist over Obama in 2012. At least he’d be honest about his faith and quite frankly things couldn’t get much worse.


19 posted on 01/12/2011 11:46:01 AM PST by utherdoul
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To: porter_knorr
I would personally not vote for someone who was Mormon, Scientologist, Muslim, Moonie, Krishna, etc. It’s not bigotry, it’s my right as an American to vote my conscience.

I generally agree with what you said. I have voted for Mormons in the past but I don't think that I would vote for a committed one as POTUS or for a ticket with a committed Mormon as VP. I have seen first-hand the influence that the "church" has on its committed members and it could be too easily exploited by unelected men with a different agenda. A jack Mormon who lives a respectable life might be a different story.

The thinking of our candidates on spiritual matters provides good information to us about their character and thought processes. I think that it is perfectly okay for an individual to include this in the evaluation of a candidate.

I was dismayed by a graduate student in the 2008 election. When a comment was made about how many might not vote for Romney because of his Mormonism, the student responded with the statement: "That's unconstitutional", apparently unaware the religious test doesn't apply to the individual voter's decision process.

158 posted on 01/13/2011 10:35:31 AM PST by CommerceComet
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