[meandog]

I couldn't care less if Romney worshipped the sun instead of The Son. The fact that he is a duplicitous, draft-dodging, flip-flopping, closet liberal means he will never get my vote.

[padre35]

Is Martin Frost the Democrat who Tom Delay’s efforts got thrown out of the TX delegation?

As far as Romney’s Mormonism, it hasn’t effected his policy decisions, if anything, it has conflicted with his policy decisions.

And draft dodging is a new one on me.

[rhombus]

Oh a story about Romney’s religion... now that’s a fresh angle...NOT. zzzzzzzzzzzz

[x_plus_one]

Romney is a committed monogamist, a successful governor, self-made millionaire and is fairly articulate.

What's not to like?

Also, he doesn't have cancer and is most likely to survive more than one term in office. W looks a lot grayer than he did 6 years ago. Juliana and Fred and McCain and Huckabee don't appear have the energy to survive the 24/7 inside-the-beltway pressure cooker. Huckabee isn't a friend to Arkansan Republicans and is a trojan horse.

Romney can win big if he gets support from the religious right.

[colorcountry]

Whether or not our own personal decision to vote, or withold our vote from Romney is because of his religion, the Republican party should NOT forget that there are many others who view Mormonism as a definite hurdle, and they won’t vote for him because of it.

Enough people in fact (by current polls), that he doesn’t have a chance of winning the popular vote for POTUS. The party will ignore the voice of its voter at its own peril.

He’s a tainted candidate whether some view it as bigotry or not. All the name calling in the world won’t change it. Maybe somewhere down the road, Mormon bigotry will be a thing of the past (maybe not), but at this point it is definitely a major stumbling block to many voters (approximately 19 to 37%).

[Will88]

“Charles M. Larson: “Their (Mormons) belief system and scriptural writings still proclaim and teach that God approves of racism by ‘cursing’ with dark skin and ‘blessing’ with light skin. And to people like myself, this is reason enough to not lend credibility to such an organization by offering one of its members the office of president of the United States.”

Mr. Larson must have missed the Old Testament verses about “drawers of water and hewers of wood.” The Christian Bible contains many verses which are now ignored. How many agree with capital punishment for adultery, or for failing to keep the Sabbath holy?

[ex-snook]

Republicans never nominated a Catholic for President either. But they looked hard this time and may nominate Giuliani. Times they are a’changin or are they?

[I still care]

I don’t have a problem with Romney’s faith, although I see Mormonism as a cult.

I have a problem with his flip flopping on the issues. Yes, he says all the right things today, but he didn’t yesterday, and who knows what he will say tomorrow?

I will state here I will vote for a dead hippopotamus if it would keep Her Royal Clintoness out of the White House. It won’t even take her four years to destroy 200 of American tradition.

[mountainbunny]

I couldn't care less if Romney worshipped the sun instead of The Son. The fact that he is a duplicitous, draft-dodging, flip-flopping, closet liberal means he will never get my vote.

This is the absolute truth. There are countless, myriad reasons not to support Romney aside from religion. And honestly, it is insulting to be told that the public must not like him because of his religion. Many of his supporters seem to be happy to play the "religion" card, which is offensive.

[org.whodat]

I couldn't care less if Romney worshipped the sun instead of The Son. The fact that he is a duplicitous, draft-dodging, flip-flopping, closet liberal means he will never get my vote.

True , but that is not what this is about, it's about using his religion to get himself in the news and the back door attempt to say you are a bigot if you will not vote for him,and its really because of his religion. He is so full of BS, the liberal needs to give it up.

[Jim Noble]

Here's my take:

First, Mitt is a genuinely nice guy, a family man, and smart - very smart. He's a manager, not a politician, so he probably looks at saying whatever to get elected as a cost of doing business.

And as far as the LDS thing goes - First, I like Mormons. They are fine people. But if Mitt gets the nomination, the MSM is going to start a twelve week intensive for the American people in LDS theology and LDS foundational belilefs - and when they're done, the result won't be good for Mitt, won't be good for the LDS movement, and won't be good for America, either.

[skyman]

A Christian church and a Chritian believes in an worships Jesus Christ.

Of course there are different beliefs and interpretations within each Christian church. But to single out certain churches and say they aren’t Christian or that they are a cult etc. because their beliefs/doctrines are not the same are yours is pretty funny.

Especially because you can often get people who belong to the same church arguing about points of doctrine

[restornu]

You can’t dodge if your # was never called

[RobRoy]

Don’t even get me started.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-26-dna-lds_x.htm

[VOA]

“My column pointed out that some people could not vote for Romney
because of his religion...”

Mormonism is NOT my religional cup of tea.

But I hope that these Polly Purebreds that will admit that they will never vote
for a Mormon...
will break out the Chlorox (diluted as per label instructions), Betadine
and other antiseptic agents to scrub themselves of those Mormon cooties
if they ever handled any of the following protective devices
conceived and designed by a...MORMON!!!!
REF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning

Firearms

Mid-1945 produced M1911A1 U.S. Army Colt.
.30 cal air-cooled machine gun on display at the John Browning home and gun shop museum in Nauvoo, Illinois.M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
Colt Model 1897
FN Browning M1899/M1900
Colt Model 1900
Colt Model 1902
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP)
Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (.32 ACP)
Colt Model 1905, the first .45 ACP
Remington Model 8 (1906), a semi-automatic rifle
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (.25 ACP)
Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless (.380 ACP)
FN Model 1910
U.S. Model 1911, the first .45 ACP military handgun
Winchester Model 1887 lever-action repeating shotgun
Winchester Model 1894 lever-action repeating rifle
Winchester Model 1897 pump-action repeating shotgun
Browning Auto-5 semi-automatic shotgun
U.S. Model 1917 water-cooled machine gun
Model 1919 air-cooled machine gun
Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) of 1917
Browning M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun of 1921
The Browning Hi-Power, the last pistol, which John Browning developed
The Superposed over/under shotgun was designed by John Browning in 1922 and entered production in 1931

Cartridges
In addition, the cartridges he developed are still some of the most popular in the world. They include:

.25 ACP
.32 ACP
.38 ACP
9mm Browning Long
.380 ACP
.45 ACP
.50 BMG

Military weapons:
The Colt 1911
Browning 1917
BAR...
the 1911 going on to serve as the U.S.’s standard military side arm
until 1986; a variant is still used by special operations units of
the United States Marine Corps and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
Hostage Rescue Team, and the design remains very popular amongst civilian
shooters. The Browning Hi-Power would have a similarly lengthy
period of service outside the United States, and remains the standard s
idearm of the United Kingdom’s and Australian armed forces.
The M2 heavy machine gun is still in widespread use throughout the world.

[humblegunner]

Reader Emails Reveal Reservations About Mormonism

Well.. it IS a cult, after all...