If President Reagan was merely campaigning on his stop at the Welfare Centers in Utah, then he certainly said some empty words. I respect President Reagan too much to think that lowly of him.
Here are his words. They don’t sound like campaign rhetoric to me. And why would he need Utah’s measly few electoral votes?
“Here is an entire industry, as you can see. It is manned by volunteers, people from the church. The foodstuffs that are here are raised by volunteers, picked by volunteers. They’re brought here, they’re canned, they’re put up in whatever packages are appropriate, and they’re used to distribute to those people who have real need here in the State of Utah and all over the country, for that matter — people from the church. And you wonder why others haven’t thought of the same thing and been able to do this same thing — so much more efficiently with so much less bureaucracy, in fact, virtually no bureaucracy, as compared to government’s attempt to do this. This is all available for the needy, and all produced by volunteers.”
I think I liked this quote from him the best.
“But you ought to be asking questions about this, because I think this is one of the great examples in America today of what we’ve been talking about — about what the people could do for themselves if they hadn’t been dragooned into believing that government was the only answer to this.”
“If President Reagan was merely campaigning on his stop at the Welfare Centers in Utah, then he certainly said some empty words. I respect President Reagan too much to think that lowly of him.”
If you do not think Reagan made campaign appearances in states and said kind things about the local area and leaders, you are detached from what happens on every Presidential campaign. It happens in every kind of factory, including mormon “food factories.”
Reagan, despite being willing to employ mormons, never became a mormon, recommended anyone become a mormon, and never ceased being a Christian.
Did he know the whacky things mormons believe? Who knows?
Did he know mormons believe in an infinite number of gods, unlike Reagan himself, who believed in ONE GOD? Who knows?
Did Reagan know the mormon cult teaches there are Heavenly Mother Gods who BREED in heaven to populate worlds? Who knows?
Did Reagan know any of the other comdemned, heretical, anti-Christian things mormonism teaches? Probably not.
He had enough on his plate saving the USA and the world from Communism. We can’t hold that against him.
He simply toured a food warehouse that provides food [mainly] to mormon members. He said some nice things to his hosts, knowing there are lots of mormons who vote.