“A Moron Prophecy”
You sound like you no longer want this very large conservative base to be part of “your” conservative group.
Would you be happy if we joined the left?
(More than you might think ALREADY have!)
Yeah, I wrote Foolishly. Harry Reid, Jeff Flake, Mitt Romney, Tom Udall etc. have been such great Conservatives....
(Actually I originally meant that any prophecy about Romney saving the Constitution was moronic,and not an attack on the Mormon Religion..... but if the shoe fits.)
Back to your roots?
In the 1870s, the People's Party was created in Utah Territory and backed by the LDS Church.
The anti-Mormon Liberal Party existed at the same time but won few elections.
The Salt Lake Tribune was the newspaper of the Liberal Party while the Deseret News supported the pro-Mormon People's Party.
Church leaders realized that one obstacle to achieving statehood was that its population did not participate in either of the two major national political parties.
It was decided that the People's Party should be disbanded.
The Republican Party had opposed statehood for Utah.
Because of this, the majority of Mormons in Utah leaned Democrat.
However, church leaders did not want to see the entire body of the church turn Democrat leading to a continuation of the status-quo where there was one political party supported by the church and another party opposed to it.[30]
George Q. Cannon was sent by the First Presidency of the Church to instruct party leaders to make sure that Church members were split between the Republicans and Democrats.
In some instances, local bishops stood in front of their congregations and instructed everyone seated on one side of the building to join one party and those families on the other side should join the other party.[31]
In 1895, Woodruff instituted a rule, informally known as the Mormon Political Manifesto, that general authorities of the church should not seek political office without prior permission of the First Presidency.
In 1898, B. H. Roberts became the first church member to be elected to Congress. Due to Roberts being a polygamist, he was refused a seat in the Congress.[32]
Mormonism, Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism.
These are all religious practices.
Even if the practices vary, they tend toward the same goal and understanding.
None of them is really any closer to the TRUTH than the other.
They don’t have to be. The basic message is still conveyed in each of their ‘holy books’. When an individual comes to an understanding with God, how the person got there is not important to God. It is, and must be, important to the individual. An individual with more than one ‘practice’ or ‘faith’ is a house divided against itself (a principle expressed in various ‘holy books’...for a reason).
If God wanted there to be only one path, only one way to understand him and praise him, he never would have destroyed the Tower of Babel.
The most IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE which is contained in ALL religions and their holy books, is the same.
It is also the most ignored and rarely achieved.
Once accomplished , ALL ELSE falls into place.
Do you know what it is ?