Posted on 05/14/2012 9:41:32 AM PDT by tcg
...The fact that a Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, would be the commencement speaker at the Baptist University founded by Dr Jerry Falwell speaks to the urgency of the hour. Add to this the fact that this Catholic Editor in Chief of Catholic Online would consider the speech important enough to make it the lead article, and the point is made even clearer...
...The Romney candidacy raises a certain irony. Here we had a Mormon candidate who went to Liberty University and addressed a crowd which has major disagreement with his religious faith. However, it was this candidate who affirmed the fundamental moral values which inform the foundations of the American experiment in ordered liberty. He did so in a way which even made this Catholic Editor look twice at his candidacy.
I contend that I have more in common theologically with Liberty's Baptists as a Catholic Christian - though I am sure some present in Lynchburg on Saturday would disagree. However, Mitt Romney hit a home run in Lynchburg, Virginia on Saturday. That commencement address was not only a great speech, it also inspired me at an important moment.
...This Mormon candidate who spoke at that Baptist Liberty University is looking better and better to this Catholic citizen as the fall Presidential race approaches. The future of the American experiment in ordered liberty is at risk.We do indeed share common values which are essential for our future as a free people. Mitt Romney is correct, "we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview."
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Christ himself did.
That is why Christians of all types who listen to his words know Mormonism is not of God.
That is an ilk I gladly keep company with.
The “no difference” talking point is so shallow and weak it almost doesn’t deserve a reply. One was saddled with a liberal Democrat legislature; the other with a Congress of his own party until the GOP reclaimed the House in 2011.
Apples and oranges.
In all honesty, Romney is such a chameleon nobody can be sure how he’s going to govern but I expect him to be different with a Republican legislature and federal budget than he was with a far-left legislature and a state budget but nobody really knows if/until he gets into office.
But I can guarantee this, if the economy survives until next January, a Romney presidency will invigorate investment and get jobs to start coming back. I think a lot of money is on the sidelines right now waiting for Obama to go away.
Apples and oranges still make a fruit salad, which both Romney and BHO support.
Still your support appears to be “Romney is not BHO”, why do you support him beyond that?
Romney was governor of a liberal state because he is a liberal, why do you think he ran there and not somewhere else.
It matters not a wit what Romney says today, because tomorrow it will be something else,, he takes five sides to every issue.
Both Romney and BHO are are:
pro gun grab
pro abortion
pro homosexual agenda
pro cap and trade
pro man made global warming
pro tax increases
pro using that stupid phrase 1%ers
pro government mandate
pro anti-conservatives
pro anti Reagan
pro government health care
pro occupy wall street
There is more........
Again why are you supporting Romney beyond “he is not BHO”?
So, is Romney also
pro Muslim Brotherhood
pro oil moratorium
pro bullshit unemployment numbers
pro anti Israel
pro Fast and Furious
pro Eric Holder
pro Van Jones
pro Sonia Sotomayor
pro Elena Kagan
pro Bill Ayers
pro Reverend Wright
pro anti Bush tax cuts
pro defense cuts?
I can tell you Obama is.
“Would you have any problem voting for a Muslim or Scientologist as long as they aren’t Obama?”
Well, the country has already found out that we can’t vote for a Muslim. Personally, I would have trouble with a Scientologist. I am not sure that they are a religion in the strictest sense of the word because I don’t think that they believe in any god.
I’ve given up on the White Knight coming to rescue this election. This is the choice, there is nothing we can do about it, it sucks...but more and more there is a difference. At least Romney isn’t “All Gay 24/7”.
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