Excellent post.

>>>I think Republican party considers 2012 a wash. The problems of 2012 will be so huge that whoever is in power at the time will be blamed for many things. The Republicans are trying to avoid the blame when it comes.<<<

I agree with this assessment... but the Republicans are basing their resons on the presumption that the republic will still be in existence in the year 2016. On the left, I think their assumption is that the “transformational” changes they’re putting in place will be so extreme that opposition will be moot. The poor GOP slobs don’t seem to realize that another four years of this and they’ll be the targets of all sorts of undermining and smears, ranging the from the subtle agitprop we’re seeing with the invented contraceptive debate up through some kind of Reichstag Fire event - although I’m imagining that an American version of that event will happen when the left takes advantage of a real terrorist attack or an economic collapse instead of doing it themselves. (As a sidelight, maybe that’s why Obama and the left are so eager to disarm the military - they want to precipitate something like that.)

The Palins, Christies, Rubios and so forth seem to be biding their time. At the same time, the left is accelerating accumulation of power and control. I do not have much faith in the cavalry coming over the hill this time around.

God help us.

Or throw personal attacks. That seems to work too.

Who personally 'attacked' you and hurt your widdle feelings?

I pointed out that you were unable to defend your position and it was good that you "knew your limitations". Your skills at discourse are apparently limited to whining.

U B RACIST !!!!!!!!!

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.

Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'

August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."
"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."
"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)

1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.

Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.
The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."
(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."
(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)

Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

Its delussional to say hes part of a 171 year co.spiracy to destroy america.

Here is MORMONism's own creed:

Articles of Faith

The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.

THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535—541

We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Joseph Smith

“...and... I like cars!”

Like you said, there are plenty of reasons not to choose Romney as your candidate, but making his religion one of them, is small minded at best, bigoted at worse.

Now Obama's religion?

That's a whole different story!!!

I'm not a Mormon, but...

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this in these threads...

And still too many gullible people that fall for for them all.

romney asked permission from his prophet before running for office

Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1953, Benson was appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by President Eisenhower. Benson accepted this position with the permission of Church President David O. McKay and therefore served simultaneously in the United States Cabinet and in the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Taft_Benson

The “I am not a mormon bu......”, what does that mean? They are not a mormon but play one on FR.

Nonsense, to make such claims minimizes the millions killed by islam.

I'm more worried about the MILLIONS killed by CHOICE!

Move the goal posts if you cant score.

O... K...

Doctrine and Covenants

Section 124:144

http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124?lang=eng
And a commandment I give unto you, that you should fill all these offices and ^aapprove of those names which I have mentioned, or else disapprove of them at my general conference;

Don’t you have a Jews for Dead Dunking Rally to attend?

Or throw personal attacks. That seems to work too.

Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

...there are plenty of reasons not to choose Romney as your candidate, but making his religion one of them, is small minded at best, bigoted at worse.

Ya know NavyCanDo...there might be plenty of reasons to oppose some of the posts on this thread...
....but making these posters' religious convictions as one of those reasons
-- per applying your own philosophy --
-- is apparently "small minded at best, bigoted at worse."

Why don't you practice what you preach and try another tact than to attack them on the basis of their religious convictions?

Don’t you have a ~~Jews~~ noahides for Dead Dunking Rally to attend?

You have no idea who Mitt is, being ignorant of him you want to confine the discussion to the little, surface information that you got from some light reading about the candidate.

Other people are just more knowledgeable about the high ranking cult leader, the highest ranking religious figure that has ever run for President, outside of Mitt’s father who was also a church Cardinal like Mitt (Stake President in Mormon lingo), and Joseph Smith himself who was a Prophet of God when he ran for President, all of those men will become GODs themselves by the way, as will an endless number Mormon males.

You cannot shut down the deeper analysis of candidate Romney.

Why Romney runs is a basic question that people start asking once they look into the man enough to realize that it is not politics that drives him, that obsesses him, that forms his agenda or that explains in any way why he has devoted the second half of his life, and a substantial portion of his family wealth, about 60 million so far, to be president. The thing that Romney lives for, has always lived for, is where his passion is, his agenda, his reason for devoting decades to fulfilling White Horse Prophecy, the man is destined to become an apostle in Mormonism and then will become a God, in his mind, it is an awesome responsibility and it drives the holy man, and to serve his religion best, he must complete the White Horse Prophecy, something his father was held back from, by mocking, disrespectful conservatives.

Wow, this is only the primary and you have multiple candidates and you select Mitt Romney to advance and promote, interesting choice.

The following 33 FACTS are UNdisputed “facts”! They are NOT “opinions”. The LDS Church does NOT contest any of these FACTS. Mormon leaders simply don’t tell Members these FACTS in order to “protect” them from these “hurtful truths”. There is no copyright. Author: Darrick Evenson (2008)

1. Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” accounts contradict each other, and his own mother and brothers never heard of him seeing God and Jesus in 1820! Their own biographies of Joseph make no mention of him seeing any visions at all until seeing the Angel Moroni in 1823.

2. Joseph Smith always publicly condemned polygamy (calling it “a false and damnable doctrine”), and denied he was a polygamist. But secretly he married his own foster-daughters; the Lawrence sisters, Maria and Sarah, ages 16 and 14. He secretly married women already married to other men; without the knowledge of their husbands. When a “wife” got pregnant he quickly married them off to another man. Joseph Smith did NOT practice what he preached! He married at least two sets of mothers and their own daughters. The LORD said to Moses: “And if a man take a wife and her mother it is wickedness...” (Lev. 20:14).

3. Joseph Smith once boasted: “I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I.” (History of the Church: 6:408) Are those the words of a humble servant of Christ? A latter-day apostle of Jesus?

4. Nancy Rigdon (aged 15) and Sarah Pratt both claimed Joseph Smith tried to sexually seduce them (Sarah Pratt being married at the time to Mormon apostle Orson Pratt who was on a mission in England). Joseph gave Orson Pratt several teen “wives” as consolation.

5. Joseph Smith illegal closed down the Nauvoo Expositor newspaper after it honestly and accurately reported that he was a secret polygamist; his illegally closing down the paper and destroying the Expositor printing press in the street are the reasons that is why he was arrested in June 1844 and sent to Carthage Jail. The Nauvoo Expositor merely told the truth!

6. Far from having “no paid ministry” top Mormon leaders make excellent salaries and also receive HUGE yearly “consulting fees” from Church owned tax-exempt businesses supported by tithing. This is why Church financial records are kept secret from Members.

7. Joseph Smith “translated a portion” of the bogus Kinderhook Plates (a series of 11 small bell-shaped brass plates with jibberish written on them), manufactured on April 1st (April Fools Day) 1843 by anti-Mormons in Kinderhook Illinois who wanted to “fool” Joseph. They did! Their “snare” worked! Only a bogus prophet can translate bogus plates.

8. Joseph Smith was arrested in 1826 in Bainbridge, New York, as a “juggler” (i.e. the term then used for “con-man”); for claiming to see buried treasure in his seerstone. Joseph never denied he conned ignorant farmers out of their money by digging for treasure that didn’t exist. He off-handedly dismissed his “peepstone” days as “the follies of youth”.

9. Over 60 of Joseph Smith’s neighbors in Palmyra, New York, people who knew Joseph Smith from birth, later swore on the Bible in affidavits that Joseph Smith was known to pretend to see buried treasure via a “peepstone” he hid in his hat. That’s why they called him “Peepstone Joe”. These people were Joseph Smith’s childhood friends and neighbors.

10. Joseph Smith’s “Book of Abraham” cannot be found in the papyrus (re- discovered in 1967 in the Chicago Museum) he said it was translated from. Egyptologists long ago concluded Joseph Smith was a fraud, based upon his “translation” of the pagan “Breathing Permit of Horus” papyrus Smith claimed was the long lost “Book of Abraham”. Go to www.bookofabraham.info for a free online video about “The Book of Abraham”.

11. Oliver Cowdery, friend of Joseph Smith, scribe to The Book of Mormon, one of the “Three Witnesses” of The Book of Mormon, left the Mormon Church in 1836 because he claimed to catch Joseph Smith having sex with his beautiful 16 year old nanny (Fanny Alger) in a barn in Kirkland, Ohio. Cowdery was later a counterfeiter in Michigan.

12. Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church, owned whiskey distilleries, a beer hall, tobacco farms, and rented out houses as brothels in Salt Lake City while he was Church president. All Mormon historians KNOW this and many will candidly confirm these 33 Facts if you ask them and they do not fear losing their Church job (and Mormon wife).

13. T.B.H. Stenhouse, a former Mormon leader and friend of Brigham Young, later wrote a book claiming Young stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in tithing money from the Tithing Office each and every year. Young died one of the wealthiest men in America; 2.3 million in 1877 dollars (about 40 million today)! Did being Church President pay that well?

14. Brigham Young’s former friend and bodyguard, Bill Hickman, wrote a book, Brigham’s Destroying Angel, wherein he claimed that Young ordered people who got in his way murdered by “Danites” (a semi-secret band of Mormon assassins Hickman once headed).

15. About a dozen people close to Solomon Spaulding, a retired Congregationalist minister, swore in affidits that The Book of Mormon is based upon his “Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon” (not to be confused with his first book called “Manuscript Found at Conneaut Creek”); a book “stolen” by Sidney Rigdon from the Patterson Printing Office in Pittsburg in 1822. Rigdon then spent 7 years reworking it into The Book of Mormon.

16. R.W. Alderman swore (on the Bible) in an 1884 affidavit that Martin Harris (financier of The Book of Mormon) told him in 1856, in Mentor, Ohio, that Sidney Rigdon wrote The Book of Mormon based upon a manuscript he stole from a printing office in Pittsburg in 1822 (i.e. Spaulding’s second book: “Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon”).

17. Ancient America never had any oxen, nor asses, nor cows, nor sheep as The Book of Mormon claims the Nephites had (in the millions). Book of Mormon archaeology, ethnology, and biology is totally contrary to what scientists and archaeologists today know about ancient America. Horses in ancient America went extinct about 8,000 B.C.

18. Not one Nephite artifact has been recovered, and not one Nephite city has been unearthed to date, and Mormon archaeologists have searched for over 150 years!

19. The Book of Mormon claims that the American Indians are “Lamanites” and are the direct descendants of a Jew (Lehi) and an Arab (Ishmael). But, the American Indians are Asians and have no Semitic ancestry whatsoever: not one Semitic “gene” in their DNA going back over 28,000 years. American Indians are related to the Tuvan people of Siberia.

20. Mormons are required to go through a secret “Endowment Ceremony” in Mormon Temples in order to become “Gods” in the Afterlife. This “Endowment” is based upon Masonic rites, and there have been many changes in the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony. The original Endowment portrayed a Christian minister as a hirling of Lucifer, the Devil as a black man, Mormons were washed nude in tubs, and swore blood oaths not to reveal Endowment secrets (oaths removed in 1990). Changes were made in 1920, 1950, and in 1990. Today’s Endowment Ceremony is a very “watered-down” and edited version.

21. Brigham Young, successor to Joseph Smith, legalized Negro and Indian slavery in Utah in 1850, and a number of Mormons (including Mormon Apostle Charles C. Rich) owned black slaves. Utah had many “anti-Negro” segregationist laws until the late 1960s.

22. Brigham Young preached that God’s Law demanded that interracial couples should be “killed on the spot” along with their children by having their throats cut, and their blood spilling upon the ground. He preached this “blood atonement” practice should also be applied to thieves, adulterers, blasphemers (whose who call him or Joseph Smith “false prophets”) and “apostates” (ex-Mormons). There is ample evidence that “Blood Atonement” was regularly practiced in Utah from 1852 until 1877; the year Brigham Young died.

23. Brigham Young and other Church Presidents and Apostles taught from 1848 until 1978 (130 year period) the Curse of Cain Doctrine; that “Negroes” are “cursed” and “inferior” and the children of Cain and were “less valiant” in the War in Heaven, and thus all blacks were “banned” (called “the priesthood-ban”) from the Mormon priesthood and Mormon Temples until June 8th, 1978. The LDS Church today is saying, “We never taught that!” or “It was folklore, never a doctrine of the Church!” (BIG LIES!). The Church is now trying to cover-up its racist past! (For further information please go to: http://markofcain.angelfire.com) The Church ended the priesthood-ban on June 8th, 1978, but only after it was discovered that 65% of white Brazilian Mormon priesthood-holders had Negro blood in them, and after the U.S. government threatened to end the Church’s tax-exempt status if it continued to “discrimate against blacks”.

24. Joseph Smith regularly drank tea, coffee, beer, wine, and sometimes smoked cigars; in violation of the “Word of Wisdom” that all “Latter-day Saints” must keep.

25. Joseph Smith’s closest friends and associates in the Church, David Whitmer, Martin Harris, John C. Bennett, Sidney Rigdon, Oliver Cowdery, William Law, William McLellin, all claimed at one time or another that Joseph was an adulterer, a liar, a polygamist, a thief, a murderer, and a “fallen prophet”. All of them left the Church. Two (Cowdery and Harris) returned after Joseph was killed and Brigham Young promised to support them financially.

26. Brigham Young taught many doctrines which the Mormon Church today calls “false”; such as the Adam-God Doctrine; that Adam is the father of our spirits and the father of Jesus’ spirit and body. If a Mormon teaches Adam-God today, the Church excommunicates him. Brigham Young also taught that the Sun and Moon were inhabited just as the Earth is.

27. Brigham Young and many other Mormon prophets and apostles taught that God the Father is an exalted White Man who had literal physical SEX with Mary (his spirit-daughter) in order to conceive the body of Jesus. This was taught openly as late as 1972. Many older Mormons over 50 still believe this “heavenly incest” doctrine. Mormon Church leaders taught it openly for 120 years (1852-1972). See Mormon Doctrine pp.546,742.

28. Mark Hofmann, a Mormon forger and murderer, FOOLED Mormon Church leaders, including Gordon B. Hinckley, for five years (1980-1985); selling the Church forged documents that Hinckley immediately tried to hide from the public (read The Mormon Murders by Gregory White Smith—available in bookstores and public libraries). WHERE was their “Spirit of Discernment” that all Mormon “prophets/seers/revelators” claim to have? Why couldn’t ANY of them “discern” that Mark Hofmann was deceiving them?

ALL (100%) of Joseph Smith’s prophecies failed, including the following prophecies:

29. A temple in Jackson County Missouri would be built before those living in 1832 would all pass away (all died long ago and there is still no Mormon Temple in Jackson County).

30. He would live to drink white wine with Orson Pratt in the Holy Land (never happened)

31. The Kirkland Bank would grow until it consumed all other banks (this “bank” failed in 1836). The State of Ohio indicted Joseph Smith with operating an illegal bank. He fled!

32. Zion’s Camp (a Mormon militia) would triumph over the Missourians and restore to Mormons their stolen lands in Missouri. Instead, the Mormons were tossed out of Missouri, and they fled to Illinois and built the city of Nauvoo. Zion’s Camp FAILED miserably.

33. Jesus Christ shall return in His second coming in the year 1891 (We’re still waiting!) All (100%) of Joseph Smith’s prophecies.....FAILED!!! How many failed prophecies can a true prophet give? Is it not time to come out of Mormonism? It is a false religion founded by a false prophet.