Comments on: Romney To Give "Religion Speech"

Mormon Candidate Will Address His Faith As His Lead In Iowa Falls To Huckabee

[liberty4all2]

jmcgilvray:

I don''t think your real argument is with me. Many in these posts are disenchanted with church/God/religion. I''m not here to promote that you or everyone believe in God. No argument that I publish can purge your animosity toward that end.

I think you''ve confused church with religion. I''m solely talking about America. I know religion rules in other countries and usually it is one predominant religion. I don''t think if Romney becomes president that you''ll need to wear the special underwear and the entire senate will be sworn to not drink alcohol or coffee.

Too often I find people feel that faith in God restricts instead of permits. Further, they feel if we have yet another faithful president, we''re going to have a religious bigot who restricts us individually and collectively. I don''t see that way in the least. I suppose it''s all how you look at it though. In the end, find the one who best represents you. If no one is there, find your way into politics.

[fibonacci_]

No more strongly religious people in govt. And mormons are almost without exception strongly religious. Boooo magic underwear man. Get lost.

[marcodele]

Every politician uses their religion to snag votes.
Isn''t Sen. Larry Craig Peniscostal?

[shanev137]

Why do we need another religious psycho for president?

[denn034]

gkc99,
Don''t wear "T-shirt and long undershorts" I see (pun intended).

[culturechang]

Oh great, just what we need: more mixing of religion and politics. Maybe we can become the kind of country that give lashes to someone who names a teddy bear "Jesus".

[denn034]

gkc99,
Your "T-shirt and long undershorts" comment could describe anyone with thermals in winter.

[farsideleft]

All our past presidents have had some kind of religious background or influence, even Lincoln who professed to have none but still attended Presbyterian services with his wife. The religion debate is not ever going to go away, but has been an accepted arguement amoung the voters. Does a certain religion make a better president? That question is debatable, because not everyone agrees on who was a good or bad leader.

[andy11420]

From Romney''s answers about Mormonism in the past, I imagine he will completely dodge all of the controversial aspects of his faith, and act like Mormonism is a main stream Christian faith. From its inception, but especially towards the later years of Joseph Smith''s REIGN over the church, they have tried to SEPARATE their religion from Christianity as opposed to what Mormons do now, trying to convince people that it''s mainstream. A great video showing differences between the teachings of Jesus and Joseph Smith can be found at www.goodnewsforlds.org and other great information found at: www.utlm.org.

[gkc99]

Safran spilled the beans on the underwear. It''s a T-shirt and long undershorts, and the T-shirt has Masonic symbols, the compass and the square, one over each nipple.

Curious that a religion whose holy book supposedly predates the bible would be using symbols from an 19th century club.

[denn034]

"Why is it an issue for Mitt Romney, and not for Harry Reid?"
Posted by drewsky_5

Valid point. Add all of the Mormon Senators and Representatives from Utah to that as well.

[denn034]

If you are so religious consious, what religion would you vote for?

The Line up:

DEMOCRATS
Obama: Church of Christ
Clinton: Methodist
Biden: Cath
olic
Dodd: Catholic
Edwards: Methodis
t
Gravel: Unitarian
Kucinich: Catholi
c
Richardson: Catholic

REPUBLICANS

Giuliani: Catholic
Huckabee: Baptist
H
unter: Baptist
McCain: Episcopalian
Paul: Protestant
Tancred
o: Presbyterian
Thompson: Church of Christ
Romney: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints




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Posted by farsideleft

Obama is United Church of Christ. There''s a definite difference between the conservative Church of Christ and the liberal United Church of Christ. Don''t get me wrong, I like knowing what the religious spread is among the candidates and thank you for it.

[marcodele]

Romney doesn''t give a ratsazz what our founding fathers said about religion and politics. He just wants votes from the neocons. Whatever they want to hear is what he''ll say. It has worked for Bill O''Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter. It seems to me Purina should come up with a brand of "Neocon Lemming Chow."

[marcodele]

Romney doesn''t give a ratsazz what our founding fathers said about religion and politics. He just wants votes from the neocons. Whatever they want to hear is what he''ll say. It has worked for Bill O''Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter. It seems to me Purina should come up with a brand of "Neocon Lemming Chow."

[liberty4all2]

Nancy_Naive: Why do you feel belief in God proves dishonesty?

[liberty4all2]

jmcgilvray: Read my earlier post. You''re confusing church with a person who believes in God. Put your mind in the time of those great leaders and the context in which they said those things. They were commenting more on the rule of a church, such as how the catholic church ruled europe for centuries.

We live in a country and time where a church doesn''t rule. Nor does a person rule. A person leads. We choose leaders. Your expectations of a president are different from mine, and mine from yours and that is how it should be. Your caustic remarks may have cogent appeal, but I find them no different than those that you protest.

Keep in mind many of our leaders have been spiritual. Our founding fathers believed in God. Some of them in fact did not belong to a denomination, but they would not denounce the existence of God. Their moral lives were built on that belief. Based on those beliefs, they constituted a way that would empower all of us to their God given rights of truth, liberty and freedom.

[superdem]

I just want to hear about the magic underwear. What''s that all about ? No one will tell me. Also, orthodox jews have something going on under their clothes, you can see these strings hanging out of their pants. What''s up with THAT ? Romney''s really NOT going to tell us anything about his religion, that whole religion is locked in secrecy and forbidden to outsiders. He just wants to defuse the issue that other Christians have with the Mormons. Well, if you can believe Jesus'' mother was a virgin, that he was crucified, came back to life, and appeared to certain people, and especially if you believe he will come again at some point and deal with everybody, what''s so upsetting to think he came to America and appeared to Indians, don''t Mormons believe that ? What''s the difference ? It''s all insanity to me.

[farsideleft]

If you are so religious consious, what religion would you vote for?

The Line up:

DEMOCRATS
Obama: Church of Christ
Clinton: Methodist
Biden: Catholic
Dodd: Catholic
Edwards: Methodist
Gravel: Unitarian
Kucinich: Catholic
Richardson: Catholic

REPUBLICANS
Giuliani: Catholic
Huckabee: Baptist
Hunter: Baptist
McCain: Episcopalian
Paul: Protestant
Tancredo: Presbyterian
Thompson: Church of Christ
Romney: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

[yongamerica]

Blah Blah Blah, nothing worth commenting about here, it''s spammed by loosers

[mojo884]

Religion should have NO place in politics or decision-making. Unfortunately, we seem doomed to have a President who believes firmly in some variation of this faith or that. I''d rather see a moderate agnostic as President.