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Better duck - If you're a Mormon
"If you denigrate a racial group, you're racist.

If you denigrate women, you're sexist.

If you denigrate Mormons, you're hip.

No one would openly suggest that you shouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because a woman can't lead the country, especially an ornery one.

Nobody would dare say that you shouldn't vote for Barack Hussein Obama because he's black, or of Muslim descent, or because he has a name that sounds like a terrorist. One Clinton worker even apologized for alluding to Obama's use of drugs as a youth, so apparently it's wrong to disparage former drug users, too.

But nobody is shy about saying you shouldn't vote for Romney simply because he's a Mormon."

The above is an excerpt from Deseret News columnist Doug Robinson's latest column. I believe he is speaking for the millions of Mormons who feel the same way at this point. Enough with slandering Mitt Romney's religion.

Read it here: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695242228,00.html
scootmac

9 responses // Better duck - If you're a Mormon

  • Listen, as a recovering Catholic myslef, I cannot say I hate mormons( Some of my best friends wear secret under garments when they go to church), I just cannot understand it. I just find it hard to believe that Jesus Cristo walked accross America. I don't want to sound like a biggot when I say this, so please forgive me, but I think a founder of a churched killed by a mob sounds a lot like a lot of people storming a compound in TX in the early 90's. Please forgive me for the corrilation of a mad man and the founder of the LDS. If I have insulted anyone, please don't take it that way.
    jlaboy
  • Okay, first of all, there are PLENTY of people saying you shouldn't vote for Hillary because she's a woman, and even more people saying you shouldn't vote for Obama because he's of Muslim descent. I just received an e-mail this week that suggested Obama's candidacy was a plot on the part of Islamic Fundamentalists to infiltrate our country from the inside. You just need to talk to more people.

    But that being said--Yes, it seems like Romney is taking a lot more heat for Mormonism than may be due, but Mormonism is not just another religion, and the issues that most of us have with Mormonism are not theological but HISTORICAL. Now there ARE a lot of people who know nothing about it and they go after Romney for the Mormon thing out of pure old fashioned bigotry and intolerance. But there are plenty of intelligent people who know enough about Mormonism to know that it began as a FRAUD. Look up the story of Joseph Smith and his "discovery" of the Book of Mormon, and ask yourself whether this really was God's chosen prophet to finally bring the One True Faith to humanity.

    If a Scientologist were to run for president, would you criticize someone who raised questions about his religious beliefs?

    Now, if someone wants to be a Mormon or a Scientologist I have absolutely no problem with it and I think you should be able to believe whatever you want to believe. But if that person wants to be my president, I think I have a right to consider whether I really want someone running the country whose deepest beliefs--the very beliefs that he says guide all of his decisions--consist of faith in a fraud.
    Kemstone
  • Maybe the faith in fraud would explain a millionare business man flip flopping on issues? hmmmm. As far as you recieving an email about Islamic Fundamentalist infaltrating our democracy., I already sent an email to Glen Beck to stop inciting the hate of Muslims and Arabs in general. Looks like I will have to send another!
    jlaboy
  • mormons are crazy. sorry, but they are. i dont want anyone crazy as my president. i would think it wrong not to want hillary because she's a woman, but i would not think it wrong to not want hillary because she's a christian. which in my book, makes her crazy as well. and obama is ethnically part muslim, but he never converted to islam as far as i know, but he did get baptized, which also puts him on my crazy list. to me, i dont care if you're mormon, muslim, christian, or jewish, if you belong to an organized religion then you're a crazy weak-minded person who is not firmly grounded in reality, and thus, should not be allowed anywhere near the seat of power for a country or territory. it just seems so wrong to me that we as americans, the biggest melting pot of cultures and religions in the world, even entertain the idea of letting someone who represents a specific religion to be in charge of everyone. in my mind, if you are religious it should automatically disqualify you for public office because you are automatically, in a very obvious way, going to be slanted in your judgment and will not be taking fair consideration for all the differences your people have. if you're a muslim leader in an all muslim state, then go right ahead, you represent your culture. but not here.
    warofthebunny
  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can ethnically be " Part Musilm " Isn't that like saying Mitt is ethnically " Part Mormon "? I think you mean he is ethnically half Kenyan. Not sure, can some one clarify? Sounds like a bad word " Ethnically " Part Kenyan sounds better.
    jlaboy
  • no, you're right, but i didnt know how to say it. people keep saying that he's 1/2 muslim and weird shit like that. but he's not muslim and has never been. he was raised for a few years in a muslim country, and briefly attended a muslim school. his father was muslim but did not practice his religion, so barack was not raised a muslim at all. i dont know why people started to say he was 'part muslim' or 'half muslim', but there you go. when i said 'ethnically' i meant in relation to his father, who was a muslim, but i guess it wasnt very clear.
    warofthebunny
  • I think he is just referring to "Muslim" as an ethnicity in the same way many Jews would refer to "Jewish" as an ethnicity. To call any religion an ethnicity is technically invalid, but this is a minor issue and is totally beside the point.

    I want to know if anybody else out there is willing to say that believing in a religion makes you crazy and therefore unfit to be president.

    I'd say yes in most cases, but I've known some pretty intelligent religious people who have what I'd consider an enlightened understanding of their faith, and I'd have no problem with somewhat like that running the country. I can understand and even respect a belief in Christ as a symbolic representation of the divine combined with flesh, but that's a far cry from taking every word of the Bible literally, or believing that if I went back in time I could actually find the same Jesus of Nazareth walking around North America.
    Kemstone
  • Well since the US is " technically " a secular country, I don't think it should matter. However, you are right, I would not some one as the US President who 1 believes Jesus walked the America's or 2 does not believe in dinosuars ( Huckabee).
    jlaboy
  • I have nothing against religion. I think you should practice whatever you believe. However, I also think that whole separation of church and state thing should be more important. I don't know why politicians don't understand that not everybody has the same belief system, therefore they shouldn't force it on us. That is why I would be more reluctant to vote for someone who is so strongly religious, no matter what the religion is.
    imabettie

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