Posted on 10/15/2011 5:28:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BELMONT, Mass. — In ticking off his credentials on the campaign trail — management consultant, businessman, governor — Mitt Romney omits what may have been his most distinctive post: Mormon lay leader, offering pastoral guidance on all manner of human affairs from marriage to divorce, abortion, adoption, addiction, unemployment and even business disputes.
Bryce Clark was a recipient of Mr. Romney’s spiritual advice. Late one summer night in 1993, distraught over his descent into alcoholism and drug use, Mr. Clark, then a 19-year-old college student, decided to confess that he had strayed from his Mormon faith. So he drove through this well-heeled Boston suburb to Mr. Romney’s secluded seven-bedroom home.
As the highest-ranking Mormon leader in Boston, Mr. Romney was responsible for determining whether Mr. Clark was spiritually fit for a mission, a rite of passage for young Mormon men. Mr. Clark had previously lied to him, insisting that he was eligible to go. But instead of condemnation that night, Mr. Clark said, Mr. Romney offered counsel that the younger man has clung to for years.
“He told me that, as human beings, our work isn’t measured by taking the sum of our good deeds and the sum of our bad deeds and seeing how things even out,” recalled Mr. Clark, now 37, sober and working as a filmmaker in Utah. “He said, ‘The only thing you need to think about is: Are you trying to improve, are you trying to do better? And if you are, then you’re a saint.’”(continued)
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Tennessee Nana wrote: “His mormon beliefs would comes before the nation if he was elected...”
Exactly what the anti Catholics said about JFK: “His Catholic beliefs would come before the nation if he was elected . . .”
And about one million voters rejected JFK because he was a Catholic. De je vu all over again.
Oh SD not even a nice try...
JFK was a Catholic...a member of the whore of Babylon according to the Mormons...
Why would you identify your Mormon matinee idol Williard Mitt Romney with an apostate ???
With that dizzyness you better stay off any ladders for a while...
Meanwhile as for Williard Mitt Romney...
Mitt Romney was a Mormon leader before politics.
Mitt Romney is still “a Mormon leader before politics”
Romney is a Mormon high priest...
He was a Mormon bishop who demanded to be called “bishop Romney”
and a Mormon “stake president” (like a pastor only not Christian) who demanded to be called “president Romney)
as a Mormon he is answerable to his Mormon hierarchy, not the “apostate” American citizens ...
His mormon beliefs would come before the nation if he was elected...
And about one million voters rejected JFK because he was a Catholic. De je vu all over again.
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Yeah at least one million Catholics will rejected Williard because he is a Mormon and believes them to be the whore of Babylon...
Aint apostates a pain...
Romney was bashed many times in the article.
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Yeah but his hair held up real good...
What was that he used ???
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