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Washington, D.C., becoming a 'Mormon stronghold'
Deseret News ^ | May 16, 2012 | Joseph Walker

Posted on 05/22/2012 8:47:57 AM PDT by greyfoxx39

The stunning expansion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Washington, D.C., area is profiled in a long, interesting and meticulously accurate CNN story that suggests "the nation's capital has become a Mormon stronghold, with Latter-day Saints playing a big and growing role in the Washington establishment."

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"It's hard to point to federal legislation or a White House initiative that bears distinctly Mormon fingerprints," Gilgoff writes, "while it's easy to do the same for other faiths." He cites as an example a recent White House "compromise" on contraception funding, which he says was "mostly a reaction to pressure from Roman Catholic bishops."

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


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To: Deb

Until this day after being informed by FR people I had know idea who he is, so why would I be working for him.
I will not vote for the liberal Romney - period.
You want to fine.


301 posted on 05/25/2012 12:40:13 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Loud Mime
I don’t worry about the lds people, but I worry about the nutcases who think they speak for God.

Huh?

The very founDATION of MORMONism are those very NUTCASEs you speak of!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)

302 posted on 05/25/2012 12:40:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Loud Mime
I don’t worry about the lds people, but I worry about the nutcases who think they speak for God.

The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.





In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.


1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.

I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.

Ezra Taft Benson

(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)     http://www.lds.org/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng

303 posted on 05/25/2012 12:42:24 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Gabrial
A lot of vile and bile and lack of respect for others.

True; and we've tried SO hard to get the MORMONs here to be civil.

304 posted on 05/25/2012 12:44:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Anti-Bubba182; Colofornian; greyfoxx39; T Minus Four

I have a very simple question for Colofornian: would you feel safer living in Salt Lake City or in Cairo?

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Well since I have never gotten a death threat from a Muslim, but have gotten them from Mormons, and have at least 4 friends who have also received bombs/bomb threats from Mormons (3 of whom live in SLC), I’m gonna go with Cairo.


305 posted on 05/25/2012 12:48:36 PM PDT by reaganaut (VAB! Voting against both Romney and Obama. Constitution party, here I come!)
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To: HollyB
You are taking things to the extreme.

What things?

306 posted on 05/25/2012 12:49:01 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Gabrial
A lot of vile and bile and lack of respect for others.

I know, so very sad. It's really to bad Romney supporters act that way.

307 posted on 05/25/2012 12:50:59 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: StAnDeliver
What is a Catholic if not Catholicism? I am one in the same.


http://www.machinebuilding.net/images/ua/dt_c120525.gif
 
 
 
  "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

308 posted on 05/25/2012 12:51:18 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: dirtboy
Do you realize just how silly you sound?

No.

Do you recognize how dismissive you are?

309 posted on 05/25/2012 12:53:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: dirtboy
My former mother-in-law was shot at in a Muslim country for her Christian faith.

Maybe I should heed your statement and call her up and tell her to she needs to be more concerned about the Mormon missionaries riding by on bicycles.

And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul:
but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28

310 posted on 05/25/2012 12:56:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: greyfoxx39
“We have an obligation to conceal our doctrines; [because] we are trying to be a mainstream Christian church . . .”


Mr. Millet:
 
I don't think we can ever transcend Joseph Smith or consider him to be a valued personality, but now we'll move on.
I don't think you'll see that among believers in the faith, because there are too many other things that came from him
that are the reasons why we do what we do and we are what we are. That there are unanswered questions, to be sure.
That there are things that I'm as anxious as the next guy to learn more detail on, I really want to know. But in the interim,
 it really doesn't, doesn't trouble me.
We're in the religion-making business, as you intimated earlier, only for a short time, I mean, compared to the
Christian church, which has been at this for a couple of millennia. We're about halfway to Nicaea.
And so, and so in that sense — I remember a very tender moment. I was speaking with — I've been invited
to the Salt Lake Theological Seminary, basically an Evangelical seminary, to discuss a book I had done on Jesus.
And they had read it, and they wanted me to come and just respond to questions.
And it was, it was a very enjoyable couple of hours.
 
The very last question that was asked by one of my friends there was this one.
 
He said, 'Bob, what can we do for you?'
 
And I, I wasn't ready for that question. I said, 'What do you mean?'
 
He said, 'What can we, as Evangelicals, do for our Mormon friends?'
 
And I, I guess my mind could have gone a hundred different ways, but what I came back with was this.
 
I said, 'Boy, I appreciate you asking that. I don't think I've ever been asked that.'
 
But, but I said, 'Try this. Cut us a little slack, will you? Give us a little time.
We're in the religion-making business, and this takes time. It takes centuries.
 
And, and trying to explain the faith and articulate the faith, that doesn't come over night.
We've really only been about that for 20 or 30 years.'
 
 
http://being.publicradio.org/programs/insidemormonfaith/transcript.shtml

311 posted on 05/25/2012 12:58:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
You are saying Ann Romney is going to Hell!

It sure SEEMS that way!!!


"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;

and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,

and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)

312 posted on 05/25/2012 1:01:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Nobody on this forum, or in my long recollection of this forum, posts more Anti Mormon material, or goes to greater lengths to tie it in to anything they can.

Well; SOMEone has to be Numero Uno!!

313 posted on 05/25/2012 1:04:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created BY Him.

The lds-org is a thief of the Name and the Truth of Jesus Christ.

314 posted on 05/25/2012 1:06:25 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.

They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.

315 posted on 05/25/2012 1:08:05 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
...presuming that the Christian objective of the FMTS is to 'save' Mormon souls...

I do not fall under that umbrella.

I am here to expose MORMONism's heresies.

What that means to actual MORMONs who then continue to 'believe' in them are not my concern.


"ELSIE was blunt with me", probably won't equate to a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card.

A physician's bedside manner won't count for much if he doesn't administer the correct medicine.

316 posted on 05/25/2012 1:10:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Deb
e point of condemning "mormonism" and ridiculing its tenants, is to disqualify its most famous member, Mitt Romney, from the presidency.

NOW you've done it!

Expect a call from MONSON soon!

317 posted on 05/25/2012 1:12:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.

They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.

318 posted on 05/25/2012 1:12:24 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator,

that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

They deny Jesus created the angels and the universe out of nothing.

319 posted on 05/25/2012 1:13:20 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

320 posted on 05/25/2012 1:14:11 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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