Posted on 06/23/2007 1:28:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) SALT LAKE CITY -- Mitt Romney said Saturday that criticism of his Mormon religion by rival GOP presidential campaigns is happening too frequently.
“Clearly, any derogatory comments about anyone’s faith—those comments are troubling. The fact they keep on coming up is even more troubling,” Romney said during a fundraising trip in the home state of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Mormon church is one of the fastest-growing religions and claims about 12.5 million members worldwide. But many evangelical Christians in crucial primary states such as Iowa and South Carolina consider the faith a cult.
Romney’s remarks follow an apology from GOP rival John McCain’s campaign for comments about the Mormon church allegedly made this year by a volunteer.
Also recently, Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, issued a similar apology for a campaign worker’s e-mail to Iowa Republican leaders that was an apparent attempt to draw unfavorable scrutiny of Romney’s religion. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani apologized after the New York Sun noted that a campaign aide had forwarded to a blogger a story about unofficial Mormon lore. Legend has it that a Mormon would save the Constitution, the story said. The campaign aide passed the story along with a note: “Thought you’d find this interesting.”
Romney said in a large presidential race there always will be some volunteers or workers who cannot be controlled. But he said the difference between derogatory comments that originated from the McCain campaign and others is that the Arizona senator has not personally apologized to him.
“In the case of Senator Brownback and Mayor Giuliani ... they called immediately. They each spoke with me personally. I don’t have any issue with that at all,” Romney said.
He said McCain “can do whatever he feels is the right thing. There’s no need for me to suggest how people respond to things that go on in the campaign.”
Tucker Bounds, a McCain campaign spokesman, said the McCain campaign has already apologized.
“It’s a very sincere apology. There is absolutely no place for those type of comments in our campaign,” he said.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, said he had not spoken with McCain since the last presidential debate, on June 5.
Romney used a fundraiser hosted by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller to criticize the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. It banned unregulated, unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to national political parties and federal candidates.
“The bill ought to be repealed,” he said. “It’s been the wrong course for American campaigns.”
Romney said he favors unlimited donations as long as they are immediately disclosed on the Internet.
Romney was attending fundraisers in Salt Lake City and in Logan on Saturday.
Well okay, good luck with that.
"a problem with people who do not believe the same way as you do."
Nope, we've been over that. The problem is when they;
> Nope, we’ve been over that. The problem is when they;
>
> Blaspheme God
> Mormons
I have never heard a Mormon blaspheme God. I’ve heard plenty of “Christians” do so, but.
I’m a Freemason. Do you have a problem with that?
You're catching on...
Does freemasonry have anything to do with religion? I thought y'all were like the Knights of Columbus, a charitable, working group but not the Church itself, nor in any way opposed to it.
“Religions that are cults and lead people to eternal damnation are the people’s business.”
Not to equate anyone’s religion (other than radical islam) to satanism, but help me remember exactly why it was that our Nation was founded in the first place. I think it might have been to escape religious persecution?
BTW, I am not Morman. I am a Christian baptized in the Methodist Church. I do not “belong” to a Church (although I worship in several), but I do belong to Jesus Christ.
LLS
Christopher Hitchens
LOL. Not sure if it’s true but it is funny.
And wait just a cotton pickin’ minute. Hitchen’s doesn’t believe in the devil at all . . . !
From reading your post as it says in the scriptures "By Their Fruit Ye Shall Know Them", (the kind of fruits they bear) so it seems you belong to a church that teaches you as their sevants you are to be bashing sarcastic towards others!
My faith teaches me To Love One Another!
Have a nice day.
How many use the language of the Lord that edifies and uplifts and builds?
Actions such as bashing and tearing down does not exist in the Lord language when the Lord council his children!
I thank Lord for the restoration of His Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
To be closer to the Lord more need to ponder the Beatitudes.
Name given to certain declarations of blessedness in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5: 3-11, cf. Luke 6: 20-22).
They describe certain elements that go to form the refined and spiritual character, and all of which will be present whenever that character exists in its perfection.
Rather than being isolated statements, the Beatitudes are interrelated and progressive in their arrangement.
A more comprehensive and accurate listing is found in 3 Ne. 12 and JST Matt. 5, where a greater spiritual emphasis is given.
JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION
MATTHEW 5: 21
21 Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so to do, he shall in no wise be saved in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach these commandments of the law until it be fulfilled, the same shall be called great, and shall be saved in the kingdom of heaven.
Joseph Smith Translation (JST) of the Bible
The Sermon on the Mount: A Restoration Perspective Andrew Skinner AUDIO (30 min.)
And how many Mormons have hijacked airplanes and flown them into buildings? How many Mormons are teaching their children to put explosives around their waists and go into restaurants and buses and blow themselves up? The Islam - Mormonism comparison is disgusting and not right. But go right ahead, it’s your freedom of speech and right to do so. Keep on being extremist and people will start to wonder why you compare the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to Islam. And then they will find out the truth. That we believe in Jesus Christ and abhor murder.
Harry Reid has a "D" after his name and toes the line of the dem party ideals.
And perhaps in a spirit of fairness, you should post lds.org, the official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Why not go to the source?
We deny the words of Moses? Don’t quote me from saintsalive, show me where we don’t believe in the words of Moses. I’ve studied the Old Testament my whole life and I believe.
April 10, 2007, was the 400th anniversary day of the First Charter authorizing the founding of the colony of Virginia, the first colony established in the New World, and whose legal territorial boundaries extended northward to what is today the State of Maine, soutward to what is now South Carolina, and westward to the Pacific Ocean. Virginia was founded with a single purpose: winning the native peoples to Jesus Christ.
The 1606 Charter was secured from King James I of England by the founders of the London and Plimouth companies “to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a colony of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia, and other parts and Territories in America, either appertaining to us, or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People....”
After describing a geographical area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and on a line south to the Carolinas and north as far as Maine, the Charter turned to the founders’ purpose and the King’s acceptance of it:
We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government.
So the expressed purpose, and the only one written in the Charter, was to establish colonies in the new World as a Christian evangelical witness to the native peoples.
~sigh~
My goodness. I just read the post to which you responded. Illogic posing as logic. Frightening, really.
huh? You wrote something that was filled with grammatical errors, and was unreadable, and you are offended that I called you on it?
LOL!
....add this too your lack of charitable nature!
According to LDS doctrine, Jesus and Lucifer were no more brothers than you and I. This is a blatant misrepresentation of our beliefs by those who would paint us in a bad light.
~”She will defeat him by using his religion against him.”~
She may defeat him, but it won’t be by using his religion. We’ve seen the backlash against his fellow Republicans for attacking him on those grounds; just imagine what would happen if Hillary did so.
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