Posted on 08/09/2012 5:40:19 PM PDT by Colofornian
WASHINGTON — Concerning Mormons and Republicans, history offers a large helping of irony. In 1843, an Army officer named John C. Fremont led a geographical expedition of 39 men more than 1,700 miles to the shores of the Great Salt Lake. His report on the journey inspired hounded Mormons to mount their wagons and resettle in the Great Basin.
Thirteen years later in Philadelphia, Fremont became the first presidential nominee of the Republican Party, which adopted a platform opposing the "twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery." The slogan, and the anti-Mormon sentiment behind it, caught on. A Republican rally in Indianapolis, reportedly attended by 60,000 people, included an ox-drawn parade wagon depicting Brigham Young along with six wives dressed in hoop skirts, each with a little Brigham in her arms.
...In the typology of sociologists Robert Putnam and David Campbell, Mormons remain a rejected "out-group," unlike accepted "in-groups" such as Catholics and Jews. Large majorities of Americans perceive Mormonism as "very different" from their own religious beliefs.
But in this case, the counsel of religious reticence is wrong. Romney should not be afraid to highlight his faith.
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Questions remain about the role of Mormonism in depressing evangelical political enthusiasm. Some religious conservatives are concerned that a Romney presidency would provide theological legitimacy for a rival, proselytizing faith. But it is unclear how silence from Romney on religion would mitigate this fear. And a portion of the evangelical enthusiasm gap is explainable for another reason entirely: the suspicions of social conservatives about the authenticity of Romney's social conservatism.
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This does not mean Romney should quote from the Book of Jarom in his convention speech...
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
So you think Romney will impose his Mormon beliefs on you??? LOL!!!
The current president is imposing his SOCIO-POLITICAL views on this nation.
So tell me, what do Mormons feel about wealth redistribution, confiscatory taxes, a weakened military and class warfare?? No, go on...I’ve got a few mins.
You sure you’re on the right site?
Really? There is ONLY ONE who 'can' and 'has' blessed this country!
Reagan was not godless. He was a God-fearing man! - And it's impossible to turn anything around when you kicked The Source/God out and replaced IT/HIM with the godless. You had four years of the godless, now you are clamoring for more!
Well, surely, we weren't expecting the TRUTH from him!
He also espoused a “big tent”.
The Jewish Gematria for Mitt Romney is Spirit of Antichrist
I can’t bring myself to post the various ones for Bill Clinton’s names. Although, this one is good
Obama Bad Hitler
Ignore the posters. You are being attacked by the Spam Dog Pack (SPD). They are a ping group. They ping each others to the threads to attack anyone that disagrees with their spam. They were hanging out only in the religion threads, but now have begun spamming non-religion topics. They are cyber bullies. If you want the list, I will post it.
Colofornian ....
Why don’t you demonstrate the Christian following that you profess to have by pulling the 2x4 beam out of your own eye before you try to pull the sliver out of LDS Christians.
The main reason you believe that Mormons are non-LDS is because they didn’t sign off on the Non-Christian Emperor Constantines dictation fo the Nicene Council of the God-Christ relationship in 325 AD.
I’m Sorry, but Constantine did a lot more damage to Christianity than what you say Joseph Smith ever did!
Please work on that 2x4 beam in you own eye first before you come at me with your tweezers!
PapaNew ~ “Just keep ‘em talking about what they’re talking about. Remember we have the Mormon card and the race card to distract ‘em if necessary. Whatever you do DON”T let ‘em get anywhere near the REAL issues about Obama’s record and our economy.”
Exactly so !
Tax reports, income in foreign banks , Bain Capitol dog on the car roof , etc., etc..
Its all fogging the real issue ~ who is the better man to lead the country out of this morass !!
In the 1960’s , we question the bigots were asking was how is John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism going to affect his Presidency ? We can’t have a Cathoic leading the country as a surrogate for the Pope in Rome.
We’ve come a long way since then ...NOT !
I've always wondered why is it that ever since Mitt's term in office, ya can't get a beer or a cuppa coffee anywhere in Massachusetts.
Now I get it!!
What makes you think they don’t? ;p
He, who? I’m not into mind reading.
My experience as well.
Ditto for Michael Savage.
Plus, by some strange coincidence, all of the Mormon haters I've ever met are really really trashy low-lifers.
No doubt. FYO. The RelMod pulled the other thread per Colofornian’s request.
ALL: Teppe's post is "Exhibit A" of...
I've posted all "11 Simple Rules" twice before...in the interest of keeping this post shorter, I'll just post the "Rule" Teppe fleshed out for us with his post:
Note: 'DPs" = Disparaging Posters -- those who castigate others for 'castigating' others [Yes, they are self-refuting, double-standard, two-faced hypocrites]
| THOU SHALT & THOU SHALT NOT RULES OF DISPARAGERS & DISRUPTORS [What Poster is Really Saying] | Repackaged Framing by DPs to Hide REAL message... | Basic problem, approach, and/or sin that disparaging posters need to address/reprent of... | Basic problem, approach, and/or sin that disparaging posters need to address/reprent of... | If disparaging posters were consistent, we would see them... |
| RULE #2: THOU SHALT FOLLOW MY PERFECT SPIRITUAL VISION & REMOVE THINE BEAMS & LOGS IN THINE OWN EYE | Tries to come across as Pseudo-'Biblical': Thou shalt take thy beam/log out from thine own eye. [The 'Thou Shalt Not' version of this is: "Thou shalt not judge."] | (a) Assumes, any "beams" in their own eyes have been removed, allowing them to have the perfect spiritual vision to castigate other posters. Having supposedly assessed the situation with this perfect spiritual vision, "obviously" the ones being disparaged need to join their "perfect vision club" so that all posters can be on the same "page"; (b) This is self-refuting: If a person cannot 'judge' someone else, then what business is it for a DP to come in and 'judge' another poster? | (c) Epic failure re" lack of Biblical understanding re: how we as Christians can righteously judge, having the "mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2) -- and that this is simply called "discernment"...(d) This also becomes quite "rich" if the message is NOT to "judge" -- all as they engage in #3...judging others' inward motives, temperaments and dispositions! | Well, under (c) above -- if such discernment ("judgment") wasn't exercised, EVERYTHING in the world would be tolerated and even parents would have no basis for passing on moral direction to their children! Even commenting negatively on a couple living together as counsel for their own kids would be dismissed as "judgmental" |
Good one!
Hardly. This is suppose to be under the religion threads and not general. It is spamming. Do you understand?
That is a very painful reminder. Hey, the Gov has got their fingers in the piggy. Why give it up? Living wage and all that nonsense. We have a lot of work to do.
Dude, you are just plain kooky.
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