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In legal circles, this is what we call a non-responsive response.

I don't know about Colofornian's adherence to the Constitution if he were elected President. However, I’m certain that if Romney were to be elected President, Colofornian would follow Paul’s counsel in 1 Timothy 2:1-3 which states:

1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour

I would actually enjoy knowing that Colofornian, the anti-Mormon, anti-Romney basher, would be praying for the success of Romney—because that would be “good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.”

Well, sometimes ya gotta be "against" the person to be for them...(Example: Some teens need "tough love" 'cause you don't want them to continue down a dark path). So if you like to go around and keep painting FREEPERtown with your graffiti labels (this time with all your "anti" rants), go right ahead.

As for praying for Romney, of course! (I just asked God for forgiveness for NOT recently praying for him; prayed for Mitt Romney), so I thank you for the reminder.

I would actually enjoy knowing that Colofornian, the anti-Mormon, anti-Romney basher, would be praying for the success of Romney—because that would be “good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.”

Have you been borrowing tom CF's stash? (ain't gonna happen)

Timothy 2:1-3 which states:

1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour

I would actually enjoy knowing that Colofornian, the anti-Mormon, anti-Romney basher, would be praying for the success of Romney—because that would be “good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.”

Strange; I didn't see THIS in those Scriptures!

But then; I have no magic spectacles!

Development of the Translation Process Story

Date	Joseph Smith's Activity	Function of Medium Used	Results
1827-June 1828	Reads and translates characters.	Stone and spectacles mediums of translation	Open plates stone, and spectacles needed
July 1828-April 1829	Reads and translates characters; receives revelations.	Spectacles medium or receiving translation and revelation. Mind and heart medium of translation	Stone and plates not always used, but spectacles used.
April 1829	Explains why Cowdery cannot translate.	Mind and heart medium of translation, revision, and revelation.	Spectacles not needed, but used.
July 1829-June 1830	Gives plates and spectacles to angel; still receives revelations; corrects manuscript for printer.	Mind and heartmedium of translation	Spectacles and plates gone; notneeded, not used.
June 1830 on	Writes Book of Moses; revises Bible; corrects and revises Book of Mormon.	Mind and heart medium of translation, revision and revelation.	Spectacles gone, not needed.

After completing the manuscript of the Book of Mormon in 1829, Smith handed the plates and glasses back to the angel.¹⁶ From that time the revelations he received came from his "heart" and "mind." To produce the 1837 edition of the Book of Mormon, 3,000 changes were made to the 1830 edition¹⁷ from revelation and intuition, without the aid of eyeglasses, as did the parenthetical phrase which Smith added to 1 Nephi 20:1 in the 1840 edition.¹⁸ Smith began to write his revision of the Bible, the Book of Moses, in June 1830 and received it by means of a vision, not through glasses.¹⁹ All the work of revising the Bible, the founding revelations, and the making of an alphabet for Egyptian hieroglyphics was done without the glasses, solely by revelation. Smith was no longer merely a "reader."