We vote for elected officials in a secular government. We are not voting for pastor in chief, we are voting for commander in chief in the presidential election.
Didn’t we cast aside religious discussions about political candidates after JFK was elected in 1960?
Did anyone talk about Mitt’s dad, George Romney, and Mormonism, when he was a candidate for president in the 1968 primaries?
Did anyone talk about Joe Lieberman being Jewish when he was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000?
And the liberals put the word out in 2008 that we weren’t supposed to talk about Jeremiah Wright and Obama attending that strange church.
If everybody decides that they won’t vote for people outside their religion, who could run for office? Evangelicals are about 26% of the population of the U.S. Catholics are about 25%. Jewish are about 3%. Various other Protestant groups are about 25%. About 18% of America claim no religious affiliation at all.
If Romney gets the nomination it will be the first time we have a guy running that thinks he is going to be a God versus one that already thinks he is one.
I don’t like Mitt Romney much, though I think he would be better (only slightly and marginally) than Barack Hussein Obama.
It isn’t the fact that he’s a Mormon that bothers me the most. Sure, I’m a Baptist, and I believe the Mormons are NOT a valid form of Christianity, but are aberrant, unbiblical in many of their practices and doctrines, and are in many ways cultic. But the Mormons are NOT violent as a religion. They are not given to “brainwashing,” to kidnapping, to other kinds of desperate or drastic “cultish” behaviors. In fact, Mormons are generally very patriotic, very Conservative Americans. It fascinates me that a number of the most prominent Mormons, like Harry Reid, John Huntsman and Mitt Romney, are actually much more Liberal than most of their fellow Mormon co-religionists. But, I digress.
We are not electing a national Pastor. We do not have a Federal Church (see the 1st Amendment), and the President in no way should serve as our national priest or confessor. He should be a moral man, an ethical man — one who knows right from wrong. This, to me, does not exclude a Mormon automatically — though it could exclude Mitt Romney specifically.
Remember that Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President, was not a Christian, but a Deist. And the wife of John Adams, Abigail, voiced and wrote of her reservations in the election of her husbands good friend and political rival to the Presidency based on the fact that he was not a believer in Jesus Christ. Ironically, John and Abigail Adams themselves were NOT “orthodox Christians,” but Unitarians, rejecting the Trinity, and the Deity of Jesus Christ, at least as traditional Christians understand and believe it!
Be slow to throw Mitt under the bus simply because he’s Mormon. Besides, there are so many OTHER good reasons NOT to vote for him that come first. But if it’s a choice between him and Obama, really — Mitt isn’t a Marxist. He won’t stop us from crashing, but perhaps he’ll slow the rate at which we hit the ground.
Too bad that Babs is not in this thread; as I, for one, would REALLY like to know just what those 'circumstances' might be!
(THIS born-again Christian is curious...)
Those who think the issue is foolish are likely to think the same way Israel will think, as they sign the Covenant with the AntiChrist, ushering in the Great Tribulation. It will seem so reasonable to those acting independently of God and His provision, law, and authority,
The author missed the mark. LDS inc is a cult off-shoot of the original Mormonism as fabricated by Joseph Smith. Mormonism is not a cult of Christianity because it started out so different from Christianity, claiming in fact that it was the only ‘real’ church of Jesus Christ. The split between LDS inc and the other lines of Mormonism is where the cult aspect should be applied.
Well, if morons like Babs won't vote against Willard for the right reasons, I'll settle for the wrong reasons. A vote against Willard is a vote against Willard!