You didn’t ask for a FReeper, you asked “where anyone has ever said”. I answered. If you have a problem with the way it was answered that’s not my problem.
As far as FReepers go comments like that get removed post haste. I have seen them, but not near what I posted as a reply. Think the closest I have seen is one FReeper advocating rounding up ALL LDS and investigate ALL LDS for child abuse during the FLDS raids. Mormons have been called more dangerous than Islam to the freedom and security of this Nation...here, at FR.
Doesn’t matter though, the point is that anti-mormons in this thread have shown they a problem with a Mormon standing up and saying what was said on 8/28. If ANYONE else of an accepted Christian religion had said the same things you would not have a problem with it. So in order to stop the problems of a Mormon saying things like pray to YOUR God, tithe to YOUR Church, connect with YOUR family, the solution is to not allow Mormons to speak at public events. Then we wouldn’t have the problems of a Mormon professing God. We wouldn’t have to worry if the person next to us at a rally was a Mormon that we are “not to pray with...”.
Trying to change it all they way to the mid 1800s...
Evel Knievel in his prime would take a pass on that leap...
I do find it interesting that the only recent freeper based thing you could come up with is the FLDS fiasco.
As for the rest of you post, politically I fail to see any issues or disagreements with anyone about what Beck said, but given facts and history religious messages from a Mormon about Christianity and faith should be meet with healthy skepticism and wariness especially when a couple of Mormon ideas were passed under the general radar ("At the same time those things were happening on THIS side anyone?).
That self interest over any facts are a priority for the LDS organization is no secret, we saw it here on FR in 2008. That they would seek advantage in any given situation is fully a part of their history from day one.
I support anything Beck says politically as long as he stays on his current path, but any and everything spiritual will be met with a wary eye.
#1...this wasn't any ole "public event." It was bathed in references to God and Jesus Christ. It was a "spiritual public event."
#2...Many Lds have conveyed to me that the proper way to pray is to pray to Heavenly Father in Jesus' Name. And despite multiple references in 3 Nephi 19 and elsewhere in the Book of Mormon of those who prayed directly to the Mormon jesus, many Lds -- having been "trained" by their leaders NOT to pray directly to Jesus -- would be quite uncomfortable having to join in with a Christian praying directly to Jesus.
IOW, you make it sound like this is simply a "one-way street" -- when in reality, the discomfort goes both ways.