a friend of the family converted to Mormonism out of college. She’s now a pastors wife.: not mormon. She told me she met many Mormons who believed in the White Horse and that’s why she was very concerned for his election.(she gave me no information, but your post explains why she expressed fear. I know understand some of her other thoughts.
IMO it doesn’t matter if Romney, the bishop, believes if a few million people think he’s riding the horse and that’s why they are following him....
It’s the White Horse and earned Grace that bothers me most
Still wish JR would post or have one who has the material just one thread with links to TRUTH articles/not bashing the faith to inform people what Romney’s faith stand for. He could lock the thread immediately so it wouldn’t turn into a fist fight but place it in a prominant place so it would reach many people.
BTW did you know that Huntsman is his cousin and that the Huntsman family fortune is intertwined with Bain/Romney? Why not transparency? IMO we had a straw candidate run only in NH to keep the ABR vote from falling into unfriendly hands. He got two delegates, but will have a seat at the table for platform issues, and they may have known out of the gate that it was going to convention.
Pray for US.
Yes.
My own family's Lds roots go back 150+ years. With all of the polygamy that occurred, Mormon families are more interconnected relationally (at least by marriage) than most people imagine.
Joseph Smith's nephew, a "prophet" of the Mormon church -- Joseph F. Smith, married his cousin, a 16 yo when he was 22.
What's interesting is that Mitt Romney is the direct ancestor of two [count 'em two] Lds "apostles" -- both brothers Parley P. and Orson Pratt, four generations previous!
This was possible because Mitt's grandparents were cousins! (Gaskell Romney and Ann Amelia Pratt). Gaskell Romney's grandfather was Orson Pratt; Ann Pratt's grandfather was Parley P. Pratt.
For those wanting to see it on a brief generational chart, go here: Pratt-Romney family -- and then scroll down to the bottom.
(Now you see where the fLDS got the idea of intermarriage?)