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My view: Many U.S. presidents had LDS ties
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I won't be voting for Mr. Romney because I disagree with his policy statements, not because I fear he will take orders from Salt Lake City.
There is no way Polk would have knowingly done any favors for the church; raising the Mormon Battalion was a loyalty check for people leaving the US, emigrating to enemy territory. There is even some suspicion he had cut a deal with a Missouri senator that if the battalion were not raised, the army would annihilate the saints.
I wouldn't mind getting the book presidents and prophets.
This needs to hit the national news media.
This campaign was over before it started.
Lets unveil the other lie. You're correct, we should vote for the person. We should accept diversity in faith like we should accept diversity in race, culture and life styles. How many Mormons will vote for Mitt because he shares their religion?
Rocky, who is disliked in every ward in Utah, misses a week and Mormons mutually whine that Rocky should be in SLC doing his job. Mitt misses 270 days as governor and these same Mormon see no issue. Everyday KSL and the Deseret News has their Mitt stories. Reid, a active Mormon, is lucky to get mentioned. If Reid is mentioned it's a terse or mean remark. The LDS Church doesn't try to put it's influence in politics. Sure!
Romney even if he is the Republican nominee will not win the Presidency as is true of Huckabee as well. I believe any conservative that appears to be or is like President Bush will not be elected.
The extremism shown by religious groups, especially Christian/Evangelical groups including the LDS church, in recent years has turned many people, including those that consider/considered themselves to be religous, away from candidates that appear/seem to be more concerned with religion and its dictates than people.
That is the problem that Romney has today, he may be an independent person from the leadership of the LDS church but when he constantly brings up the subject of his conservative religious background to get Republican primary votes he pushes others like me away.
Someones religion should not even be discussed, that should be a very private part of that individuals life. I will not vote for a candidate that seems to/intends to use his/her religion to base state or national policy on.
If religious groups continue on their current path they will create the very thing that they fear most - a GODLESS country.
Secret, sacred, it's semantics. You know full well what I mean.
Seeing how I no longer swallow nonsense about....oh, you almost had me there.
This is about Mitt romney's candidacy. Not the LDS faith.
His values will guide him, not church leaders. As anyone in the Church knows, we are counseled, taught, encouraged, advised--but make our own choices.
Mitt will do what he feels is best for the country. He's got a history of success in turning around failing enterprises--businesses, the Olympics, Massachusetts, etc.
Our country is floundering due to social decay. Many are distrustful of those in power and negative in their expectations for the future of the country and the world. I think Mitt can turn the country around and can inspire the nation like Reagan did when he reversed the national malaise that Carter spoke about. We're fools if we pass this guy up.
The fact that he receives overwhelming support from members of his church proves that the Romney presidency would be very pro-Mormon. I agree that Romney would avoid the very appearance of taking orders from Salt Lake City, but that�s precisely what his prophet wants him to do!
Like everybody else, the president should carefully consider counsel from his religious mentors. The only caveat to that people should get a new religious mentor if he or she is in Left Field. It�s telling that Romney�s tactic is to avoid taking counsel from the Church. Apparently, he thinks it�s easier to convince people that he won�t listen to the prophet than to convince them that there is nothing wrong with listening to him.
inclined to vote for an LDS president doesn't have as much to do with their religious conviction as it does their connection to the high moral fiber of the candidate. If Mitt Romney were to receive direction from his spiritual leader how would that hurt the nation anyway? Strong families, financial resposibility, emphasis on education, acceptance of all people regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, race etc; sounds like what our nation was founded on in the first place. We could do a lot worse.
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