As Unam Sanctam drifts off to sleep tonight, God grants him a dream. In the dream, Unam Sanctam opens the door to a time machine and heads back in time to a city in Western Turkey...circa the early 50s A.D.
He ventures into a "send-off" gathering of early Christians in Ephesus. There, the apostle Paul has been teaching, evangelizing, and discipling for three years...and is about to head off to Macedonia/Corinth.
Unam Sanctam hears the words direct from the apostle Paul:
“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. 26 Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. 27 For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. 28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. 31 So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. (Acts 20:25-31)
Upon hearing Paul's words -- especially the bold-faced portion above -- Unam Sanctam decides to speak up and lecture the apostle Paul in response:
"Really Paul," U.S. says, "I simply do not see the problem at all. I guess you’re saying evangelists from the savage wolf sect will try to take advantage of having savage wolves become leaders of this white house church. So what? This is a free 'enough' region, from what I understand, and with the overwhelming number of religious gods that can be chosen around here, well, hey, anyone can make any kind of pagan-god pitch they want. Right? Christians are free to and must make a stronger pitch..."
And we all know...what then happened...
Why of course, the apostle Paul deferred to Unam Sanctam's divinely-inspired wisdom on this matter...and the apostle Paul apologized for...
...(a) calling these other potential leaders "savage wolves"...and stripped all references to "savage wolves" from what would become Acts 20...[kinda like the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association stripping all cult info from its Web site last weekend after Billy Graham met with Mitt Romney]...
...(b) failing to "honor" the competing freedoms of various religious appeals;
...and (c) having "wasted" his time over three years -- daily night AND day time spent issuing "warnings" for three FULL YEARS -- on this matter...
The apostle Paul then turned to God and asked, "Why didn't you send me Unam Sanctam three years ago???"
Mitt Romney is a “savage wolf” to the Christian Koinonia as referred to by St. Paul? If Mitt Romney were to use his position as President to promote or establish Mormonism, I would agree, but he is doing nothing of the sort, and it is slanderous to suggest that he is. Again, if Mormons are proslytizing in the broader society, they are legally free to do so. They are wrong about their religion, but we have a free country, and in this country, the cure to bad speech is better speech. So get out their and evangelize like crazy. Go for it! Prevent the savage wolves from turning Christians away from the true faith. No problem. But that has NOTHING to do with politics. Sheesh. I suppose you want to toss out the US Constitution and establish an Evangelistic theocratic regime? Do you only vote for Evangelicals for office? Is every Evangelical pure as the driven snow and sinless? I suppose you must have voted for George Bush and Jimmy Carter. I don’t know who else would have met your religious test for public office. To say that St. Paul in the Bible is telling us not to vote for Romney, solely because he is a Mormon, and allow someone who may well be a minion of the prince of darkness who wants to turn the US into a state socialist free abortion, free contraception, same sex marriage promoting hell hole, i.e., Obama, I just say that is total nonsense.