Posted on 09/07/2009 11:23:19 AM PDT by Colofornian
This is so. Lds were highly focused on the Democrats going back to the late 1850s and early 1860s (even though they weren't officially a state until the 1890s). They were anti-Republican, in part, because the fledgling Repubs had labeled polygamy as slavery as the "twin relics of barbarism"
From the commentary: "I am a Democrat," stated Senator Harry Reid, "because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it." Like Reid, I believe that the Democratic party takes the strongest position on many moral issues. For example, King Benjamin's address in the Book of Mormon...
Hmmm...Doesn't take a cultural moral detective to render this statement as "suspect."
From the article: Finally, I am a Democrat because I believe LDS scripture and prophets have urged us to live within our means, to be fiscally responsible. Democrats believe we need to pay for any programs we create
(Oh yeah, that's what Dems are..."fiscally responsible...do we have "amens" from the Mormon Tabernacle?)
I thought it said “Why I’m a moron democrat.”
DEMOCRAT = No money for you. Fiscally greedy. (but it’s for the children /s)
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Whatever.
Oh, “Mormon”....
“I believe LDS scripture and prophets have urged us to live within our means, to be fiscally responsible. Democrats believe we need to pay for any programs we create, and Democratic administrations have, since the Great Depression, consistently lowered deficit spending, while the Reagan and two Bush administrations have greatly increased it. Democrats have a strong record of fiscal responsibility.”
How long ago was this article written?
BWHAHAHAHAHA.
Sooooo a Mormon is allowed to be a Communist???? Interesting, i *was not* aware of that.
Harry Reid is his hero?
Sir . . .Boyd Peterson - Sir . . . The Democrats feed the poor by taking money from people who have earned it. Jesus never taught that, Sir.
In other words, seek and value truth. Not a widely practiced virtue by most Democrats. Nothing like ignorance and self delusion supported by outright mendacity in the written form. What irony.
From the article: "I am a Democrat," stated Senator Harry Reid, "because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it."
Well, this was the same message he gave at a BYU speech in October 2007.
How are we to reconcile the following October 2007 headlines posted on Freepublic:
Oct. 21, 2007: The Las Vegas newspaper ran an article…the headline as it ran in a FReep thread (Nevada) Not so Wild about Harry Reid. [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914425/posts ]
Oct. 10, 2007: The LDS church owned Deseret News in Utah ran an article…headline in FReep thread: Reid gets WARM reception at BYU [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909140/posts ]
So, can anybody ‘xplain how it is that Reid is apparently more popular @ BYU—rated by the Princeton folks as being the third most conservative campus in the country—than he is in a state beholden to the gambling mecca, legalized prostitution?
How “warm” was the BYU response to Reid’s message by 4,000 of BYU faculty and students?
At the end of his speech, Reid earned a standing ovation from a small percentage of the crowd and applause from the rest. "I was impressed with him," said Stacie Borneman, a 22-year-old political science major from Farmington who said she is a Republican. "I thought he did a good job expressing his feelings and our responsibility to serve in our communities. It's good to hear differing opinions and to be respectful, even if you don't agree politically, and he gave both sides of the issues he raised."
I also found interesting this comment from the D.N. article: The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians...Reid first spent 40 minutes delivering a well-received and sometimes tender BYU forum speech in the Marriott Center to 4,091 students, faculty, staff and visitors...Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. "They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right."
Wrong there and that's early in the article, gotta go back and see where else he's wrong.
Amen brother!
Mormonism is heresy, plain and simple. It’s central theological axiom of Eternal Progression is so far removed from the truth taught by Jesus that it’s unrepentant adherent will be consigned to a Christless eternity. On the political front- how can someone who claims to believe in God support a party which has been hijacked by Godless Marxists who support a whole host of positions that run contrary to the word of God? (abortion,gay marriage,etc.) Wake up and smell the coffee!! “You will know them by their fruit”
Anybody who sees himself as a member of an interest group rather than an individual is bound to feel more comfortable as a Democrat.
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