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Mike Richards ?? | 11:57 a.m. Sept. 5, 2008

Not only do we conservatives not NEED Roe v. Wade, but because we are all law-abiding citizens and overall righteous people, we don't NEED any laws or the Bill of Rights or the Constitution at all!

We naturally do everything correctly and brilliantly, so we don't NEED any law or other bureaucratic stuff.

So we surely don't NEED Roe v. Wade!

Mike Richards | 12:24 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008

To Mike Richards ?? @ 11:57,

Would you please not use my name when you post.

Town Heathan | 12:25 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008

To DBG: LDS members will always try to control what others believe. The Free Agency part only works when it is on their side.

To Randy Ford:

All of you hyper conservitive LDS/Republicans will get your answer in November. If this country vots Demo's, then once again you can go cry that you are a minority and you don't get heard. Because you are conservitive and narrow minded doesn't mean the reast of the MAJORITY are the same way.

Again...wait and see what the final vote is and you will know where you stand....

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Anonymous | 1:48 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008

The LDS "church" has never been a religious organization.
It's always been a political movement.
I thought EVERYBODY knew that.

Good LDS Utahns wouldn't.... | 8:05 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008

An LDS person I imagine WOULD NOT vote for a man who supports a preemptive war. (YES it was preemptive, google: Bush Admits Iraq)

An LDS person WOULD NOT vote for someone who we HAVE NO IDEA who they are.

Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing and McCain continues the neo-conservative/FAR-from-ANY-LDS-doctrinal-belief-system, which Bush is leading us in.

Either way I feel a good LDS person probably wouldn't vote for either.

HOWEVER the LDS church does NOT support most the comments made on here about MY PARTY is right.... NO MY PARTY IS!!

The church asserts an opposite view from both statements EVERY ELECTION!!!

THAT is the problem with Utah. I love my state, I love my church, I do NOT love the mind frame of most Utahns.

Alike? | 9:55 p.m. Sept. 5, 2008

The Democratic party is like the LDS church in their stance on abortion?

Uh, yeah, right.....

David | 6:55 a.m. Sept. 6, 2008

It is apparent that most here do not understand that Democrat and Republican opinion on the matter of abortion are in its entirety irrelevant. The Supreme Court has decided...game over. Candidates may indeed have personal issues regarding this topic, but that is it...personal opinion and nothing more. Sure the president gets to pick a new judge when the previous judge dies or retires, but a conservative/republican court decided to allow for gay marriage in California. It seems that most judges rule based on law and not their personal opinion.

Anonymous | 9:57 a.m. Sept. 6, 2008

I am an LDS person. Don't tell me what I would or would not do or who I would or would not vote for. It is none of your business to assume you know what I would or should do just because I am LDS. I can think for myself, thank you very much. Go away.

Hologram | 10:15 a.m. Sept. 6, 2008

Quote from an obviously misinformed poster: "This is why I choose to align myself with the Church on the issue of abortion and cannot be a good Mormon and a Republican."

One cannot believe in Republican values and a good member of the LDS church?

I'M a staunch Republican AND an LDS member in good standing.

I guess I'm not real?

Anonymous | 12:46 p.m. Sept. 6, 2008

When nothing else can be politicized and things look gloomier and gloomier for the GOP - they like to pull out the Roe v Wade cards, again, and again.
LOL!

carl | 12:52 p.m. Sept. 6, 2008

As for the dems, Obama, the guy they offer as the leader of ALL your causes including abortion . . . he quotes the Gospel of Matthew one day (so he must be familiar with it) then on another day when asked when life begins cops out & said he couldn't tell ("above my pay grade") just like the hypocrites who when asked a direct question by the Savior, Matt 21:23-27, Obama the hypocrite wouldn't answer the question. He was/is pro infanticide not just abortion. When does a baby start to crawl, talk, walk, run . . . sounds like it is a function of maturation . . . so when does life begin democrates?

David | 4:24 p.m. Sept. 6, 2008

Carl,

Do the geniuses who lead the LDS Church and claim to have direct revelation from God know when life begins? I have never seen a statement by them about it. So I guess we have to throw those prophets, seers, and revelators in the category with the "hypocrites" like Obama, huh!

Sarah | 4:59 p.m. Sept. 6, 2008

Neither political party in the US is 100% in line with LDS doctrines. That's one of the many reasons that the church refuses to align itself with one particular party the way some other churches do. Both parties have their good and their bad points, and I'm not affiliated with either one. I vote for the candidate, not the party.

But to say that the Democratic party views on abortion coincide with the LDS church's stance is pretty silly. There are many Democrats that believe as we do on the subject, and there are many Republicans that don't. But on average, the majority of Democrats believe that a woman should be able to choose whether or not she will murder her child, while the majority of Republicans believe the opposite.

Barack Obama argued against, and repeatedly voted down, bills that would allow babies born of botched, late-term abortions to live instead of being put aside and left to die. He actually said that life protection extended to ANY preterm baby might jeopardize abortion rights. He will not be getting my vote this fall.

And it was a Democrat who brought up sbortion this time around, not the Republicans.

Anonymous | 5:42 p.m. Sept. 6, 2008

Do any of you fanatic Mormons even know your Church's position on abortion? If so, have you spent any amount of time actually studying the official positions of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party on abortion?

Didn't think so.

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