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Reid gets warm reception at BYU

I like this guy! He sticks to his guns and says what he thinks. He even praises his LDS Church and strangely doesnt get the same support from his members as Mitt does who tries to 'distance' himself from his Church. Strange huh!!

I DON'T like this guy! He is a disgrace to the Church and to the state of Nevada. The lies he has told against the American Military should have everyone at BYU booing him. That someone could cheer "Dingy Harry" at BYU is evidence that anyone who tries to live the Gospel is welcome in the LDS Church.

Abortion was supposed to be something that Mr. Reid was against, but it seems that every evil, stupid, self-serving, worldy position is OK to him if it gives him a little power in the Dreamocrat Party. I was a Democrat and a Baptist in 1960 when John Kennedy was President. After a lot of experiences, some good and some bad, I am a Vietnam Veteran who is now a Latter Day Saint and a Very Conservative Republican.

Winston Churchill said that if you were not a liberal at twenty years of age you had no heart. Then he said if you were not a Conservative at 30 you had no brain. Mr. Reid is over 30 and it is just about time he grew a brain.

Reid leads by example. We need to cozy up to Move-on.org, I think they ARE Christlike deep down inside.

Isn't it the belief of the church to let people have their agency, even if people choose to sin?

Reid's address was wonderful! Scott, above, is wrong. Reid is a fine example of an outstanding Latter-day Saint. I have had it with our current Bushwhacker. Sending a woman (an outstanding and a fine woman) to deal with foreign Muslims is joke. Doesn't Bush know that women are dirt to most foreign Muslim males?

As a drafted veteran, it is past time to get out of Muslim countries. No one can stop them from killing each other. We should spend our funds and time protecting ourselves, on our lands, borders, and shores from these foreign Barbarians.

A disgrace to the church? Are you kidding me? Why, just because he states his opinion? Bravo to Harry Reid for saying what he believes. That is what freedom of choice is all about. Can you be a Democrat and a Mormon? Absolutely. I am an independent voter who has voted both sides of the aisle. And also a recommend holding Mormon. I'd vote for Harry Reid over George Bush any day of the week.

According to research by Mark T. Shirey, citing Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations by Ralph Keyes, 1992, this quote was first uttered by mid-nineteenth century historian and statesman Fran�ois Guizot when he observed, Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.

With more and more liberal professors and now Reid getting a �warm welcome� I am through with BYU. The Church may own it but the spirit is gone. Flamers are warned I will not read your comments.

My only reason in posting this is to let BYU know they can stop calling. I will no longer donate.

Talk about a compartmentalized life. It seems unfathomable that Mr. Reid who walks arm in arm with liberal organizations such as Daily Kos and Moveon.org would be lauded by so many LDS people while he "seeks after these things."

I'm not LDS, but I am looking. I am conservative and I do know a little about the LDS doctrine and I find the separate silos Mr. Reid lives in at work and at church are hardly reconcilable with LDS doctrinal claims of virtue and holiness.

Mr. Reid's example gives me considerable pause. Calling President Bush "an idiot" as Senator Reid has, seems to strike me as calling his neighbor Racca or empty head. This is who you laud? And before the indignant liberals begin throwing rhetorical stones at me let me remind them that calling your neighbor an idiot is a sin in YOUR doctrine. Now start throwing.

If indeed Mr. Reid is an example of "temple worthy" member as he himself claims and that status allows for public support of move-on.org I don't know that I want to be "temple worthy".

Churchill was also an alcoholic atheist: a good model for any Mormon.

Scotwright, I am not a democrat or republican. If you are a Mormon and say that Reid is a disgrace to yur Church, you must have some problems. Most of the Mormons that I know do not behave as their ultra enemies: the ultra right Christians of the Republican party.

It is unbelievable that students and others could be so supportive of an advocate of Socialism by Carl Marx, which was just the opposite of What Joseph Smith advocated. All of his positions are true socialism and will eventially lead us down a path of total destruction in this country if we do not wake up. These were the very things that Ezra Taft Bensen tried to warn us about that very few have heeded.

To have him stand up in a University forum and criticize President Bensen and others who are of a consevative nature is offensive and reprehensive to me. While I am not a supporter of the Iraq war and have never been, it is appalling to me that he and his party can be so critical of the the war and the 4,000 or so deaths that has occured, but totally ignore and actually support abortion which continues to murder innocent babies at the count of millions since the legalization of Roe v. Wade.

This guy is a total disappointment to me and I hope and pray that some day He will come to a realization of his incorrect philosiphies.

Let us be Christians all and practice love and charity towards another. I appreciate the fact that our Church doesn't espouse any political party.

Sen. Reid reminds me of the kid in the out-crowd who will say and do anything to get to hang out with the popular kids.

Here's the deal...I choose to take a stand on abortion and gay marriage that is similar to what the current prophet and the doctrines of the church dictate. My opinions and actions about health care, global warming, education and jobs are insignificant in relation to my moral character.

I would not say Brother Reid is a disgrace to the Church. I see Republicans and Democrats as "effective" and "less effective" respectively, not "good" and "evil."

However, Reid sends a mixed message on mixing religion and politics. He wants to state publicly what is right and wrong with the Church. But he does not want the Church to state publicly what is right and wrong with the government. Doesn't that seem backward?

Also, criticizing President Benson, one of the Lord's prophets and a good man, was not a particularly good move on Reid's part. And attacking President Bush for mispronouncing words is not going to win friends or influence people either.

I am very distrurbed that he wants members of the church to worry less about gay rights and more about health care and other issues that are generally viewed upon as democrat agendas.

I believe we NEED to worry first about the morality of a country before anything else. If a country has terrible morality it will get destroyed ( SODOM AND GOMMORHA).

Moreover if our general morality is weakening any chance of an effective society is also weaking. The reasoning behind this is clarified by one question
WHAT IS THE BASIC UNIT OF SOCEITY?
THE FAMILY

If we are not worried about abortion, gay rights, and just general morality we stand to greatly weaken our society and governement.

The reporter heard a different talk than the one they broadcast? He makes it sound judgmental, controversial, sensational.

Go listen to the replay (next Sunday sometime) or
in the 'Find a Talk' database on BYU Broadcasting's website -- you'll hear a whole different view in what he actually said.

The only thing we could fault 'Brother' Reid on, was generalizing ALL 'Mormons' to have any particular belief or behavior, such as the implication they are [blindly] obedient. Yes, some are, just like any other group, but that's "in spite of their faith" and "not because of it".

He, and you, and I, cannot reduce the LDS Church to just another man-made organization, such as a political party. The Bashers would like to have you think that way. But anyone doing that gives away a shallow spot in their thinking.

I think it sad how people slam Reid for supposedly not living his religion when they do not realize that they are not living their religion by the vitriolic words they use against him.

This guy is a joke.
He does not hold the beliefs to his heart.
His is on of those that call evil good and good evil.

He reminds me of the BOM leaders that would not send supplies to Capt. Moroni.