You're a pathetic bigot and an embarrasment to the Free Republic.
Romney is running for the Presidency of the United States, not Pope, not Grand Pooba of the Southern Baptist Convention. I'm not a Romney supporter but your slime tactics as well as other flat earthers on the fundi right are revealing your true un-Christian nature.
“You’re a pathetic bigot and an embarrasment to the Free Republic.”
“Romney is running for the Presidency of the United States, not Pope, not Grand Pooba of the Southern Baptist Convention.”
First, there is no “Grand Pooba of the SBC”, which is a thing I’m glad you brought up. There is NO central control in that denomination. That is why you see many different conservatives in the SBC back different folks - not just Huckabee.
However, Mike Huckabee (right or wrong) has made it clear he is running as a “Christian leader” but not to dominate the nation with his personal beliefs. However, he is clear that they WILL influence him. Romney has attempted to distance himself from his, but that dog won’t hunt. No true mormon could do that, and I believe he really is a true mormon.
Besides there is plenty of material out there to indicate he “consults” the high dudes regularly and they have supported him. An example from 2006:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/19/romney_camp_consulted_with_mormon_leaders/
an excerpt:
“Over the past two months, Romney’s political operatives and church leaders have discussed building a grass-roots political organization using alumni chapters of Brigham Young University’s business school around the country. More recently, representatives of BYU, which is run by the church, and Romney’s political action committee have begun soliciting help from prominent Mormons, including a well-known author suggested by the governor, to build the program, which Romney advisers dubbed Mutual Values and Priorities, or MVP.”
“The president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon B. Hinckley, has been made aware of the effort and expressed no opposition, the documents show, and at least one other top church official has played a more active role.”
“Church officials and Romney advisers downplayed the discussions. Church officials say they have a position of strict neutrality on political matters and are not supporting Romney’s candidacy.”
“But documents indicate that Jeffrey R. Holland, one of 12 apostles who help lead the church worldwide, has handled the initiative for the Mormons and that he hosted a Sept. 19 meeting about it in his church office in Salt Lake City with Josh Romney, one of the governor’s sons; Don Stirling, a paid consultant for the Commonwealth PAC, Romney’s political action committee; and Kem Gardner, a prominent Salt Lake City developer who is one of Romney’s biggest donors. Globe reporters observed Romney’s representatives enter and leave chuch headquarters for the meeting.”
More articles:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301737_pf.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon345.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650201262,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-mormons18dec18,0,4828843,full.story?coll=la-home-center
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562941-1,00.html
Whatever, whether you think I believe in a flat earth or not, is irrelevant. You are being obtuse if you don’t grasp that LDS officials in Salt Lake City will exert an influence over a Romney presidency.
If that makes me a bigot in your eyes, then I can live with that. For I’m just warning you.