[Suz in AZ]

Just speakin’ the truth. I know mormons who voted for romney BECAUSE of the bashing.

Sorry. That’s just the way it is. If supporters spent more time wooing the mormons than bashing their religion, that 95% could be moved a lot.

But bashing is more fun. right?

While you’re at it, the jews are voting for obama en masse. Bash them while you’re at it. Oh wait... people are wooing them... aaaahhhh... what a concept.

Bashing doesn’t work. Speak to the people with respect on the issues and you might have a lot of voters.

95%... I think that is a stat pulled out of the air.

[svcw]

Wow, what an increasingly interesting response.
mormonism is being exposed, sorry you have an issue with that, maybe you should get off the religion forum.
SLC lds and lds are voting for Romney because he is a mormon, Romney is a liberal because of his mormonism, so sorry you are unable to accept that.
That 95% figure is coming from exit polling:
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, based on exit polls, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s support among Mormons 2012, 95 percent

[Colofornian]

If supporters spent more time wooing the mormons than bashing their religion, that 95% could be moved a lot. But bashing is more fun. right?

Suz...here's an assignment for you...and if you can't answer it, you just might want to engage in some self-censorship on this issue:

Please show us from the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) where Jesus as he was engaged in a conversation with the teachers of the law/Pharisees engaged in "wooing" them.

Now I happen to know of ONE verse where Jesus actually complimented the Pharisees. But just one. Instead, the way Jesus treated the legalistic religiosity of that time was to afflict it...(surely you've heard of the statement...afflict the comfortable; comfort the afflicted).

Nowhere was Jesus hardest on legalists than Matthew 23 and John 8. I suggest those chapters to your reading.

Even with the Jews, the apostle Paul (& Apollos) would do the same...read Acts 17...Acts 18...

If you were to survey thousands of parents, Suz, you would realize that many of them have to engage in "tough love" with their teens re: substance abuse & the like. It's still "love" -- but it's another dimension of it.

If people don't want to hear the diagnosis of our sin -- some time has to be spent convincing them of it.

Now, if you need to understand WHY Mormons are legalists, I'll spend some time on another post on this thread explaining that to you.

But bottom line, Jesus says he came for those who recognized they had need of a physician. And legalists are usually the LAST to recognize that need.

[svcw]

Bashing doesn’t work.

So why do you continue to bash people exposing mormonism.

Speak to the people with respect on the issues and you might have a lot of voters.

You mean like you speak to people with respect who expose mormonism?

[Elsie]

Speak to the people with respect on the issues and you might have a lot of voters.

Good idea!

I'll try that with the Obama voters first to see if it works like you assume.

[Elsie]

I know mormons who voted for romney BECAUSE of the bashing.

'Fess up!

What is both of their names???