Posted on 03/12/2012 10:28:57 AM PDT by Colofornian
Reverend O’Neal Dozier, an African American Rick Santorum supporter from Florida, held a press conference Sunday calling upon Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to renounce his Mormon religion.
Mr. Dozier’s request is regarding several racially motivated passages in the Book of Mormon, that have been called out by other African American leaders previously in the race.
One verse in the Book of Mormon discusses the “cursing the black African people,” and Mr. Dozier also notes that their are prejudiced passages against Jews and Native Americans as well.
“Romney’s nomination would cause the erroneous view that has long existed in the minds of black people, that the Republican Party is prejudice to become a reality. Also, if Romney gets the nomination, President Obama’s super pacs will educate the American people about his racist religion and he will probably lose to Obama,” said Mr. Dozier in a press release.
Earlier in the primary race, Mr. Santorum made a campaign appearance at Pompano Beach’s WorldWide Christian Center, where Mr. Dozier is the lead pastor.
During the week leading up to the Florida Republican primary election, Mr. Dozier told The Palm Beach Post that “the American people will not vote for a Mormon to be president of the United States.”
Mr. Romney’s religion has had little impact on the primary race thus far. In states with large populations of Mormon voters, he has received the largest percentage of votes from Mormons. Thus, one could conclude his religion has been an advantage.
However, other religious figures have also criticized Mr. Romney for the passages in the Book of Mormon.
In January, Dr. Obery Hendricks a professor of Biblical Interpretation at the New York Theological Seminary, wrote an op-ed article in The Huffington Post making similar accusations against Mr. Romney.
“What concerns me is this: the Book of Mormon, the book that Mitt Romney and all Mormons embrace as divinely revealed scripture that is more sacred, more true, and more inerrant than any other holy book on earth, declares that black people are cursed,” said Mr. Hendricks in an MSNBC interview.
Mr. Romney has been the lone candidate not accused of making racist remarks against African American candidates in the race thus far though.
In contrast, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Mr. Santorum himself were issued open letters by the NAACP calling for them to retract statements associating African Americans with government welfare programs.
Furthermore, Mr. Romney’s father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, was known as a vocal supporter of civil rights for African Americans.
Mr. Romney has not responded publicly to either Reverend Dozier or Mr. Hendricks’ comments about the racially charged Book of Mormon.
Going forward in the race, the Mormon factor will likely remain a resurfacing issue for Mr. Romney, especially if he wins the nomination and faces the nation’s first African American president.
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