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To: GreyMountainReagan
Care to explain that as a group why Mormons are against 0bama more than any other major religion?

Speaking as a former mormon who heard statements like this from mormon leaders for years leading up to 1978...

"Now let's talk about segregation again for a few moments. Was segregation a wrong principle? when the Lord chose the nations to which the spirits were to come, determining that some would be Japanese and some would be Chinese and some Negroes and some Americans, He engaged in an act of segregation.... When he told Enoch not preach the gospel to the descendants of Cain who were black, the Lord engaged in segregation. When He cursed the descendants of Cain as to the Priesthood, He engaged in segregation.... "Who placed the Negroes originally in darkest Africa? Was it some man, or was it God? And when He placed them there, He segregated them.... "The Lord segregated the people both as to blood and place of residence. At least in the cases of the Lamanites [Native Americans] and the Negro we have the definite word of the Lord Himself that he placed a dark skin upon them as a curse -- as a punishment and as a sign to all others. He forbade intermarriage with them under threat of extension of the curse. And He certainly segregated the descendants of Cain when He cursed the Negro as to the Priesthood, and drew an absolute line. You may even say He dropped an Iron curtain there....
 
"Now we are generous with the negro. We are willing that the Negro have the highest education. I would be willing to let every Negro drive a Cadillac if they could afford it. I would be willing that they have all the advantages they can get out of life in the world. But let them enjoy these things among themselves. I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change that segregation? It reminds me of the scripture on marriage, 'what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.' Only here we have the reverse of the thing -- what God hath separated, let not man bring together again."

-- LDS (Mormon) Apostle Mark E. Petersen:  Race Problems - As They Affect The Church, speaking at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954

There are still many, many mormons alive today who heard these same words.

111 posted on 09/29/2010 9:32:55 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (We now have confirmation that Barack Obama truly loves poor people. He is creating so many!)
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To: greyfoxx39
Playing the race card. Generally it is only liberals that play that. But against Mormons there is nothing to which some here on FB won't stoop.

Your implication is that Mormons are racist. Do Mormons eat babies also?

Care to explain why Mormons are more conservative also? Of course being more conservative and dissatisfied with 0bama are totally unrelated right.

It all racism!!!!

139 posted on 09/29/2010 6:36:30 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan ("Pray for America")
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