Can I vote for a Mormon? By Ken Starr

Ken Starr ^ | January 8, 2012 | Ken Starr

[reformjoy]

Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary looms large on the political horizon. In the midst of lively public debates over taxes, jobs, the national debt and similarly important questions related to the future vitality of our nation, a different kind of question continues to privately occupy the minds of some prospective voters: Can I vote for a Mormon?

... If an unbeliever such as Jefferson or non-churchman like Lincoln can serve brilliantly as president, then America should stand — in an intolerant world characterized all too frequently by religious persecution — as a stirring example of welcoming hospitality for highly qualified men and women of good will seeking the nation’s highest office. ...

[Burkean]

Current Mormon leader Dalllin Oaks falls into your scenario, but I don’t think it’s any sort of secret.

[Scoutmaster]

THEN YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS INSTALLATION OF THE NEXT 2 OR 3 WILDLY LEFT SC JUSTICES.

Ummm. You might not want to count on Mitt Romney for that whole conservative SC Justices thing.

Romney's Record on Judiciary and Legal Appointments

[Scoutmaster]

Current Mormon leader Dalllin Oaks falls into your scenario, but I don’t think it’s any sort of secret.

Yes, I could vote for a Mormon. No, I couldn't vote for Mitt Romney. No, I couldn't vote for LDS Apostle Dallin H. Oaks. He gave the "Lying for the Lord" speech that some misguided Mormons have used to justify things like that MormonVoices.org site telling the press that there are "zero" references in all of LDS.org of teaching 'gods over planets.' I don't want to argue theology with you, but don't pour lemonade on my head and tell me it's raining. That's like when then-prophet Gordon B. Hinckley told Larry King ("when it started they allowed it?") about polygamy that "when our people came west they permitted it on a restricted scale." Hello? Nauvoo? Kirkland? Joseph Smith?

[Elsie]

I don't want to argue theology with you, but don't pour lemonade on my head and tell me it's raining.

This letter is from Josey Wales' lawyer; and I'd like a word with you...

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

October 14, 1838.

[dfwgator]

They elected 5/6ths of a Mormon in 2008.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“THEN YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS INSTALLATION OF THE NEXT 2 OR 3 WILDLY LEFT SC JUSTICES”

Sorry, if the nominated R candidate doesn’t represent the interests of the base, it is the party’s fault
they ran a lemon.

Dole was chosen to run against a wounded opponent and lost.
McLaim was chosen to run against a nobody with no history and lost.

RINOmney, if chosen, will run against Zero and likely lose.

Try to blame the base... it doesn’t wash. Most of us gave $ and worked for Dole and McLaim. Some of us don’t want to go through that again.

RINOmney could be running as a Democrat this year...

[af_vet_rr]

I doubt that Mitt Romney is a “candidate with character” but anyone who hesitates to vote for him soley based on his being a Mormon is being silly.

Now if he were a Muslim then....no way.

Call me a bigot, but I'd no sooner vote for a Mormon than I would a Muslim or Scientologist.

Of course Willard's religion is in a distant third as to reasons why I will never vote for him.

[af_vet_rr]

Many of the criticisms of the Romney are fair. But all I can say is that if you crazies here, should it come down to Obama v Romney, vote for Obama, or 3rd party, or don’t vote—THEN YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS INSTALLATION OF THE NEXT 2 OR 3 WILDLY LEFT SC JUSTICES. Sorry for shouting, but not as sorry as you will have to be if you do something so foolish.

You know what the difference between a liberal like Willard Romney with an (R) next to his name and a liberal like Barrack Hussein Obama with a (D) next to his name?

Not much, because both want to take you down the road to socialism. Willard just wants to do it a little slower.

I'm done voting for liberals with (R) next to their name. If that means third party, so be it. Not my fault the GOP wants to move left. I didn't leave them, they are leaving me.

[JediJones]

It depends on what the definition of “Mitt” is. It changes every time the wind blows.

[Keli Kilohana]

If it comes down to voting for a Mormon or a Muslim, then I am with Joseph Smith.

[Elsie]

[Joseph Smith] Mormon forces plundered and burned residences and businesses of perceived opponents and communities supportive of anti-Mormon vigilantes, Daviess County. (3)

[Elsie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thh3zzmMsiw

[Ann Archy]

So, if he tithes, has he given 20 MILLION to his temple? He’s worth 200 MILLION, so I’m guessing that he did....do you know??

[Ann Archy]

Jesus himself said there is no marriage in heaven.

[Ann Archy]

Jesus himself said there is no marriage in heaven.

[reaganaut]

has he given 20 MILLION to his temple? He’s worth 200 MILLION, so I’m guessing that he did....do you know??
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Tithing is complicated, its supposed to be a full 10% PLUS a fast offering and other offerings every month. So, if he earned 10 million a year, then yes 1 million would be to the LDS church. It isn’t always in cash, one thing the LDS do is give stock or property as ‘tithe’ to avoid paying taxes on it and for the LDS church to increase their stock holdings. The book “Mormon Corporate Empire” has details on things like that.

If he is worth 200Million and if that is from income, then yes he would have paid over 20 million in tithing but without seeing his tax records, I am just guessing at the value but it would have been 10% MINIMUM for tithing.

My gripe isn’t tithing, it is the spiritual blackmail that the LDS use to get the tithing.

[22cal]

Yes, but their ‘Jesus’ is not ours. They think the Bible has been adulterated over the centuries. I hear this POV from one of my sons-in-law who is a lapsed Mormon.

[reaganaut]

Jesus himself said there is no marriage in heaven.

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Which is why the LDS twist that verse and say it means that in order to be married in Heaven, they must be married here on earth in their Temples.