CUH,
You are engaging in mind reading. I have no religious litmus
test for candidates. And this is something mormons seem
unable to understand, despite the specific guidelines
of their faith - that each is to follow his own conscience.
I would vote for many, many non-Christians. That would include
Adams and many others. I won’t be voting for a cultist.
MY CONSCIENCE says to stay away from cultists when I cast my
vote. This is based on my personal faith as I seek to follow
my conscience - and not anyone elses.
Or do mormons claim that right only for mormons?
Do as we say, not as we do...
You know that...
Mormons consider it acceptable to vote by 90% for mormons, live in a mormon theocracy, and give business preference to other mormons, yet preach from their lofty perch to others on who they can cast their ballot for. Litmus test? You bet!
" “What a strange people these Mormons are. They are like a flock of sheep; if I should jump into hell, I believe they would follow me!”
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., on the block-voting of Mormons, Macomb Journal, January 25, 1877, p. 2, “Politics and Mormons”
CUH states: It is sadly pathetic that John Adams had to have his faith disparaged by the religious zealots of his day
Let's hear DISPARAGEMENT from a MORMON religious zealot, shall we?
“This class of men, calling themselves Christian, uniting with the various forms of the pagan religion, adopting many of their ceremonies and institutions, became very popular, and finally some of the pagans embraced Christianity and were placed, as it were, upon the throne, and what they termed Christianity became very popular indeed. How long has this order of things existed, this dreadful apostacy, this class of people that pronounced themselves Zion, or Christians, without any of the characteristics of Zion?
It has existed for some sixteen or seventeen centuries. It has spread itself and grown and gone into the four quarters of the earth. It is the great ecclesiastical power that is spoken of by the revelator John, and called by him the most corrupt and most wicked of all the powers of the earth, under the name of spiritual Babylon, or in other words Babel, which signifies confusion. This great and corrupt power is also represented by John as presenting a golden cup to the nations, full of all manner of filthiness and abominations.”
- Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, v. 14, p. 346