Posted on 10/12/2011 8:47:50 PM PDT by stolinsky
Temple ? you have to have a Temple Recommend to get in.
Oh and H.Hewett had some guys from 6th blog braying about how it was so wrong to even ask a question on religion by the VOTERS.. lost a lot of respect for Hewett because of that
“The only politician or candidate talking about religion is Romney. I call it playing the religion card. He got the idea from Obama.”
That’s an outright lie. He doesn’t talk about his religion at all, unless obliquely when having to defend it when attacked. Don’t lie.
A lie??? Romney is the one demanding that Perry repudiate comments from the Baptist minister in Texas, after Perry has answered the question twice.
Indeed, the government is prohibited from discriminating against a candidate for office based on his religion. Not so with individual voters. Neither are pastors or the press denied their 1st Amendment right to express their opinions on Mormonism.
Excuse me, but whose business is it what Romney’s religious beliefs really are?
It's the voters' business. A person's moral character IS important. American voters _should_ have learned that with Clinton.
Epstein's Religion Test? Bwahahaha (wish I knew how to write the sound Epstein made when he laughed)
Now I’m laughing... LOL
That’s funny.
Snort, Snort, Gefelta...or something like that.
Well, of course. But the "test" can't be institutionalized in law, and it can't be used to prohibit someone from running for office.
After my first marriage, I dated for s hort time a gorgeous gal who should never allow herself to laugh in public. She snorted like Epstein and hooted like an owl when something really caught her funny bone.
OMG.
girls like that make me laugh.
It’s like farting. Why not? Life’s too short to live with pain.
quite correct but Romney proponents are trying to conflate the two issues that the State may not have a test but that Voter may test a candidate on any issue or belief.
Of course voters can use any criteria they want. But what criteria SHOULD they use? I really don’t care about a candidate’s theology. Besides, only God can see his heart—I can see how he acts.
Does he remain loyal to his wife and kids, or does he wander around? Does he stick to his principles. or does he switch from pro-life to pro-choice to suit current voters? Does he understand that evil exists in the world, or does he think we can “just sit down and talk” to mass murderers?
If he comes down on the right side of important issues, that’s what I really care about. I don’t believe that Romney is a sincere conservative on life, guns, and other issues. THAT’S what worries me, not his theology.
True.
We must think that every voter has a test for every candidate on issues and beliefs, applied with some degree or another of vigor.
Every candidate and his advocates has disqualifiers that they wish to apply to their antagonists. These disqualifiers are a natural risk we all undergo. Only the weak minded cannot withstand pressures so weak.
We cannot shoulder the burdens of others.
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