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The New Republic: Mormon Candidate Should Hope For More Attacks From Dems — Or Become One
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- Looks like the mormons are packing the blogs and flooding the media with cash (to no avail).
Reality Check: No mormon will EVER become president of this country. - Reply to this comment
- Isn't Harry Reid (D), Senate Majority Leader, a Morman???
Posted by processor2 at 03:08 PM : May 11, 2007
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Yes, Harry Reid is a Mormon. But he's not running for president, which is why he's not being called to task on his religion. Besides, most of his Liberal Democrat supporters reject religion as being important in one's ability to govern. However, Mitt Romney's conservative base feel that religion is everything when it comes to the ability to govern.
In the middle of those two extremes are most Americans, and me.
A politician who is deeply religious and has moral character is a nice 'feel good' feature about them. However, America needs a person who is willing to govern/legislate based on the Constitution, the document that truly keeps America free. We do not need politicians who govern based on misinterpretations of their holy book!
America needs freedom OF religion just as much as freedom FROM religion if one so choses. - Reply to this comment
- Michelle Cottle....Is your next article going to be on Obama's coke habits? Or on Hillary's cheating husband? Of course not. Most if not all of the Mormons that I have ever met have been very respectable, organized, intelligent, and PATRIOTIC CITIZEN. That%u2019s more than you can say for most people. Good Luck Mitt, Regardless of your religious beliefs.
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- Unbelievable! Articles like this show that many of you journalists truly do not know Mormons, their beliefs, their doctrine, nor their faith.
In fact you attempt to mislead and decieve people by painting a dark picture of the Mormon faith that in reality does not exist.The Mormon faith which IS CHRISTIAN and truly does believe in God, teaches goodness,kindness honesty, integrity,and anything that is virtueous. We should not vote for a Candidate based on his religion, but in Mitt Romney's case his religion is an assest, not a problem. Aside from the religion, Mitt romney shows attributes of good character, sincerity,intelligence,leadership,and strength.That is the kind of President that I will put my trust in. - Reply to this comment
- Let's be honest: the story of Joseph Smith and the golden bible is no more ridiculous than Moses and the stone bible or Muhammad and the Qur'an bible or Constantine and the new bible. ALL religious leaders can appear to be a little freaky.
Personally, I believe that God must have called Joseph Smith to be His prophet; no one else would have thought of him. - Reply to this comment
- Romney is a good guy. He may be good for this country.
Sharpton needs a giant muzzle!!
Posted by cmp271
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Well said.
to set the record straight. the Mormon church did not ban blacks from membership, they welcomed them. Blacks were not allowed to hold certain positions in the church, but is that different than other churches banning women or other minority groups from holding certaing positions? It was not changed to allow for tax breaks as some moron stated either. - Reply to this comment
- I love the way reporters take sound bites and make them mean what they want them to. In my world this type of person is called a liar. I guess the reporting industry should change its name to the liars club. Michelle Cottle is a liar.
Posted by dkb218
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You are so right!!! The media will bend the truth or avoid reporting all those truths that do not agree with their own postions on matters. Do not base your opinion on what you read in magazines, newspapers or web-sites alone. do deep research if you think an issue matters enough to get an opinion on it. This presidential election is just such an issue. Study it out. - Reply to this comment
- I love the way reporters take sound bites and make them mean what they want them to. In my world this type of person is called a liar. I guess the reporting industry should change its name to the liars club. Michelle Cottle is a liar.
Posted by dkb218
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You are so right!!! The media will bend the truth or avoid reporting all those truths that do not agree with their own postions on matters. Do not base your opinion on what you read in magazines, newspapers or web-sites alone. do deep research if you think an issue matters enough to get an opinion on it. This presidential election is just such an issue. Study it out. - Reply to this comment
- My research comes from a family of leaders in the LDS Church who worked through the legal issues regarding the banning of African Americans in the LDS Church, some years back. You would benefit to learn the facts, as well.
Posted by kirstinharr
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If you want to advise others to get their facts straight and you want others to believe what you say then you should know what you are talking about. The Mormon church never banned blacks or any other person. They did not let them hold certain positions in the church, not too different than other chruches do not let women hold certain positions today. All races have been welcomed with open arms. - Reply to this comment
- Really? I went to college in Idaho and worked at Sears to pay my way (paid by commission sales). I actually had Mormon customers ask if I was LDS and decide not to buy from me because I wasn't. After graduation, I worked at a semiconductor company and was passed up for several engineering promotions by lesser educated individuals because I wasn't LDS.
My wife was born and raised in a town in Idaho that was 80% Mormon. She was constantly discriminated against because she was not Mormon. The Mormon boys couldn't ask her on dates or to high school dances.
Mormons don't discriminate...please!
Posted by hossinator3
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Maybe it is just that you are not a good sales person, not smart enough to deserve a promotion and your wife is ugly? Stop finding faults in others for your shortcomings and face up to your own responsibilities. - Reply to this comment
- go mitt romney!!! wow i never thought i'd read such far out slanderous/bigoted comments about mormons. the intentions are too obvious but the good news is the new media seems to be telling the truth about who mitt romney is & his stances on the pressing issues that really matter here. i truly believe that when biased media continue to run stories, etc that are clearly ??? -people can tell the author's intention & will turn these biased medium off. Fortunately for mitt romney, there's the new media that's been on his side putting out positive news coverage and focusing on telling america about his impressing background & leadership ability. i think in spite of the negative anti mormon rhetoric coming out recently (what a coincidence) w/ movies i.e. big love or stories from 100 years ago about massacre (filled w/ lies), i doubt very much that any educated person who does his/her research on mitt's background would care what this biased media nonsense is trying to do.
mitt is a leader & all the followers of biased media can take that to the hole!!!
posted by queenie123 - Reply to this comment
- Isn't Harry Reid (D), Senate Majority Leader, a Morman???
Thought I saw that on Public TV last week on their 2-part special on Mormonism.
According to PBS anyway
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- P.s Hey hosinator is your wife a nappy headed hoe, If thats the case I wouldnt want my boy with her either, tell the truth does she have some loose morals.
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- nicean,
You'll fit in nicely in Idaho with spelling and grammar like that! - Reply to this comment
- I doubt the American people will elect a Mormon when they understand what they blieve, some of it is as far out there as Scientology!
Mormons reject the unified Trinity and teach that God has a body of flesh and blood. Though Mormons revere Christ as Saviour and certainly call themselves Christians, the church is rooted in a rebuke to traditional Christianity. Joseph Smith presented himself as a prophet whom God had instructed to restore his true church, since "all their creeds were an abomination in his sight." He described how an angel named Moroni provided him with golden tablets that told the story (written in what Smith called "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics, never seen before) of an ancient civilization of Israelites sent by God to America. The tablets included lessons Jesus taught during a visit to America after his Resurrection. Smith was able to read and translate the tablets with the help of special transparent stones he used as spectacles. He published them as the Book of Mormon in 1830.
Twelve years later, Smith explained to a Chicago newspaper that "ignorant translators, careless transcribers or designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors" in the Bible, which he revised according to God's revelations. Mormon leaders were identified by the church as God's prophets on earth. - Reply to this comment
- ok ok, hosinator three is right, if Im a Mormon I must be racist, and since I come from a multi ethnic, multi relgious family I must inform them that they are no longer welcome at my house and Im moving to Idaho, Thank you for deliverying me form the abiss of ignorance.
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- I don't think the American people will elect a Mormon when they know the truth about how the religion came to be and what they believe. Some of their beliefs are as far out there as Scientology!!
Mormons reject the unified Trinity and teach that God has a body of flesh and blood. Though Mormons revere Christ as Saviour and certainly call themselves Christians, the church is rooted in a rebuke to traditional Christianity. Joseph Smith presented himself as a prophet whom God had instructed to restore his true church, since "all their creeds were an abomination in his sight." He described how an angel named Moroni provided him with golden tablets that told the story (written in what Smith called "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics, never seen before) of an ancient civilization of Israelites sent by God to America. The tablets included lessons Jesus taught during a visit to America after his Resurrection. Smith was able to read and translate the tablets with the help of special transparent stones he used as spectacles. He published them as the Book of Mormon in 1830.
Twelve years later, Smith explained to a Chicago newspaper that "ignorant translators, careless transcribers or designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors" in the Bible, which he revised according to God's revelations. Mormon leaders were identified by the church as God's prophets on earth. - Reply to this comment
- For the Anti-Mormons possing as historians,nothing like paid ministry, the twelve apostles got paid pretty good didnt they?, Have you ever heard of the council of Nicea? The name of this article says it all, Romney's Religion problem, bigotry in america is alive and well, and Mormons are fair game becuase they belive that SomeBody saw Jesus and His father God and that they spoke to him. Also that he spoke to other people besides the jews(book of Mormon) I know they practiced poligamy and Brigham young ate little children, did some one say the church owns pepsi, thats the funniest one yet. In the Bible which everone claims to know so well it says that satan was the accuser of our bretheren and acussed them before god day and night, Shame on any of you who bears false witness against his neigher and says he has sinned when he has not sinned. We are used to these tired attacks, you guys need to have a new meeting and come up with some better pamphlets and videos, the very fact that Mr. Romney is even a marginally serious canidate is eveidence that your little propaganda machine needs some new fuel.
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- Posted by perception5
"What do you think?"
I agree with you 100%!
....well as long as, of course, if they're not Mormon. - Reply to this comment
- Quote from taygud:
"As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I refute any accusations that I am racist. Being called so is offensive.
To defend my religion, I have always been taught to believe that God does not discriminate between people and neither should I."
Really? I went to college in Idaho and worked at Sears to pay my way (paid by commission sales). I actually had Mormon customers ask if I was LDS and decide not to buy from me because I wasn't. After graduation, I worked at a semiconductor company and was passed up for several engineering promotions by lesser educated individuals because I wasn't LDS.
My wife was born and raised in a town in Idaho that was 80% Mormon. She was constantly discriminated against because she was not Mormon. The Mormon boys couldn't ask her on dates or to high school dances.
Mormons don't discriminate...please! - Reply to this comment
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