Posted on 01/14/2010 11:47:24 AM PST by Colofornian
After becoming the highest-ranking elected Mormon in church history in 2007, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) has drawn an immense amount of attention from the media in recent days for his comments about President Obama.
But even despite the controversial comments published in a new book referring to Obama as a “light-skinned African-American” with “no Negro dialect,” a popular LDS blog announced on Monday it had chosen Reid as the 2009 Mormon of the Year.
In recent years Reid has helped The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with many critical political issues. One of these issues includes helping the church negotiate a compromise with the Bureau of Land Management over access to Martin’s Cove.
Reid has repeatedly argued that one can be a committed Democrat and an active Mormon.
BYU students from his state give him mixed reviews.
“I respect him. I think that he basically does do a good job of representing Mormons in general,” said Kelsey Jorgenson, a BYU student from Las Vegas. “He is a political leader after all, and I think he puts on a good public face. I think it’s a good thing that he is a Democrat and a Mormon.”
Reid converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his senior year of college and attends church in Boulder City, Nev., or in the District of Columbia...
According to the LDS Church News there are now 14 church members in Congress. Ten are Republicans and four are Democrats...
“I know a lot of people don’t like Harry Reid or think that he’s not a good representative of Mormon ideas; however, I think that it is important that there is a Mormon in such a high place,” said Kristin Jensen...
(Excerpt) Read more at universe.byu.edu ...
Talk about trying to improve one’s ‘image’.
Damage control!!
I am wondering if he got that from the ‘people he can smell’ coming into the Capitol building?
It seems to be that honoring Harry Reid as “Mormon of the Year” is an insult to Mormonism, and would be roughly equivalent to honoring Nancy Pelosi as “Catholic of the Year.” At least they could have honored a Mormon who actually makes a positive contribution to society like Glenn Beck.
The headline reads: “Reid awarded 2009 ‘Mormon of the Year’; students unsure”.
Now I understand. The students are unsure if he’s the Moron of the Year or of the Century, or the past Century ...
It that a misprint in the title? I suspect there is an errant “r” in the name of the award.
To the contrare. A "jack Mormon" = inactive, and Harry Reid is very active, appearing with other Mormon members of Congress a few days before Christmas to receive the local Mormon missionaries for a Christmas event.
And the The Salt Lake Trib ran an article Oct. 23, 2009: ”Today, Reid, with his security escort in tow, likely will be making his home teaching rounds after his ward's three-hour service. Anyone who questions his Mormon credentials should see that, says Jim Vlock, his home-teaching companion.
Source: Harry Reid: A Mormon in the Middle
Lds leaders send their "more mature" members to make home teaching presentations to families.
I want to hear a statement from Mitt Romney regarding this award to Harry. [Servant of the Cross]
Well, if we can't get Romney, would you settle for another Mormon politician, Sen. Orrin Hatch? (Admittedly, Hatch made this assessment a few months prior to Reid just winning this award): ...Orrin Hatch, says it's not fair for fellow Mormons to disparage Reid as anything but a devout Mormon..."I can personally tell you that Harry is a good member of the LDS faith and he was expressing a personal opinion that his side feels very deeply about," Hatch says. [Source: same article as above]
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Yeah, right. I've never even heard of this blog until they pulled this publicity stunt. If it's popular, it's because of traffic by the media gumming onto this story.
Well, apparently...
...Sen. Hatch (see post #25),
...BYU administrators who invited Reid to speak (see post #1)...
...over 4,000 BYU students, faculty, & administrators who gave Reid an ovation -- some standing (see post #1)...
...Reid's home teaching companion (see post #25)...
...the Lds bishop who assigned Reid to be a home teaching presenter...
...and some of the BYU students mentioned in this article...
...all apparently would take issue with this statement.
I think that it is important that there is a Mormon in such a high place,” said Kristin Jensen...
It may be as high as he will ever get. Those who uphold and condone the murder of unborn children may be headed for a much hotter and lower level. I hope that is not the ideal for Mormons.
Romney is a Mormon, correct? Nuff’ said.
Harry Reid told BYU students Oct. 9, 2007: “I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it,” he said.
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Yes well there was that original platform of the newly formed Republican Party...
The Twin Pillars of Barbarism...Polygamy and Slavery...
Both were ideals of the mormons in the 1850s...and still are..
1. The mormons claim that polygamy is necessary for white and delightsome mormon males to be worthy to enter the mormon afterlife...females of all colors and religions need not apply..
2. Mormons believe that blacks are cursed and deserved to be enslaved...
Thus the 150 year hated of Republicans...
When Mitt Romney ran for President, we were constantly warned by the press about how wacko “those” Mormons are. But Harry Reid never faces such scrutiny.
Well, the Mormon official positions on abortion already have many inconsistent wide-open "exceptions" (see Abortion And LDS Inconsistency ):
If the abortionist says so ("competent medical authority")
If God says so (pray about it)
If the incest perp stepfather says so (incest exception)
Rape
If the child is disabled
If the "health" of the mom is at stake (not just "life" exception but "health" exception -- a similar exception to what the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade determined in 1973)
Well, now you know where the Mormon Elders stand. Not on principle, but upon making accommodations with evil in order to preserve their own position.
They have cheerfully sold out their own in order to maintain their power and wealth. Discgusting. As is every other church whose websites are no more than 2 or 3 clicks away from Soros-spomnsored or left-leaning organizations. For a good example, check out the UCC.
This is exactly why as a Mormon I would never send my children to BYU Provo. That Reid is honored in ANY WAY by BYU is as bad as Obama being honored at Notre Dame. Makes me sick...
TN, to be fair & in defense of conservative Mormons -- many of whom are my family members/heritage, while there was animosity toward Republicans during the 1860s to 1890ish period, mainly because it was Congressional Republicans which pushed for anti-polygamy initiatives (the Southern Democrats joined with the Mormons in opposing those initiatives), states like Utah went Republican around the time of Teddy Roosevelt, lost it briefly around 1914, regained power in the 1920s, lost it to Democrats during the depression years, and started regaining it in the 1940s...and were solidly Republican post WWII.
Utah even briefly went Republican just pre-statehood (1896) before an avalanche of Democrats were swept in during the 1896 elections. [Ya gotta know though that many in the state were told to switch allegiances (starting in 1893) by church leaders because they at the time they were receiving statehood wanted to appear more "balanced" to Republican Congressional leaders].
Anyway, I would say that about 40 years into that 150-year span you were referencing things started to change, although as things do in Utah, it waffled back & forth then for the next 50 years.
Your post, of course is factual, but you left out a fact that is more damming to Reid.... Reid converted to Mormonism in the early 60’s. So he willing join a religion that had a poor history of racism and at the time, did not allow black into the priesthood. To this day Mormonism holds that black are pre existent cursed.
Be that as it may, none of the Mormons that I know like Harry Reid at all.
To be a serious, practicing Mormon and a liberal Democrat is an oxymoron.
The “jack-Mormon” pejorative stands.
What do you mean? This article states almost 30% of the Congressional Mormons are Democrats (and, which I might add, are each liberal on some social issue). Recent ex-Mormon democratic Congressman like Baron Hill (IN) -- same thing.
Even today, see Unlikely Group Teams Up on Sex Education -- the Salt Lake Trib ran this article about a Republican bill in the Utah state legislature authored by a rep who has an honors law degree from BYU -- and he's been coalescing with the Planned Parenthood director to get the bill passed so that educators can start becoming activists/lobbyists in the Utah school system to promote contraceptive usage!!!
How's that distinctive from liberal Republican Mormon officeholders on Dean Heller (NV) & ex-gubernatorial types like Mitt Romney? (Romney told Katie Couric in Dec 2007 that it'd be OK to "donate" embryos to "research" -- supposedly three years after he underwent some mythical pro-life "conversion"!!!)
I thought mormons were anti-abortion??? How could they support Reid? A putz who is more confused on abortion than anything oBamaCare related?
Long live the King of putzes. Reid takes the cake. Gotta love his personality, too - like an ironing board.
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