What’s the LDS structure, isn’t this “super Pope” the next step up over the bishop? Is this the tip top one, or is there more? It’s not clear to me.
JFK wasn’t a bishop. If he was, then before running he’d doubtless consult an archbishop. As a layman, he’d have spoken with a priest. Mitt’s a bishop, and got that way before ever countenancing a presidential run. Sounds like they expect that the higher you are in the church, the higher you should be consulting before doing something that would have significant impact.
It’s a private organization. The beauty of America, however, is that you can choose what private organization you want to be in and that private organization can’t keep you from leaving it. If Mitt finally decided that this LDS stuff was garbage and that he ought to go mainstream Christian, he’d get tons of opprobrium and a cold shoulder from the LDS, but they could not legally stop him.
I doubt that JFK asked a Priest for permission to run for president.
The Mormon Prophet is of course over all men, including the Catholic Pope.
He is a mortal man until after death, then like Mitt Romney, he will become a God, he is also the “prophet, seer, and revelator—the only person on the earth who receives revelation.”
You don’t understand that if Mitt steps out of line in any manner, if he comes out of the cult’s control in any degree, then he loses his place in the religion, and in the after life, he will not become a God for instance and can not even enter those palace like temples, the slightest failing puts him back with the 85% of Mormons who are forbidden to enter those temples and must attend the regular, plain, church buildings, and who are not privy to the inner secret world of the devout Mormons.