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The Media's Mormon Fixation
The Daily Beast ^ | Oct. 10, 2011 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 10/11/2011 4:43:53 AM PDT by Colofornian

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To: Elsie

“What is the connection between Mormons and giraffes?”

It takes a lot to swallow mormonism. It takes a long time for a giraffe to swallow.


41 posted on 10/11/2011 11:41:25 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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To: Tennessee Nana
We already have a Mormon president now...

Has Obama been dead dunked?

42 posted on 10/11/2011 2:04:37 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: Tennessee Nana
We already have a Mormon president now...

There, fixed it.

43 posted on 10/11/2011 2:07:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Graybeard58

His Mommy Stan Ann Dunham was...June 2008

and had endowments and was sealed to her children making them...Oh mormon glory...

MORMONS

LOL

So we have our first mormon president...

and a BLACK one too...the seed of Cain...

We dont need another...

The first mormon president didnt work out too well...


44 posted on 10/11/2011 2:11:13 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Well, now I am really confused. Barry’s mom was white and delightsome but Barry was born pre revelation 1978, when it was decided that black people were really actual people and he has darkish skin color. Does he still qualify?


45 posted on 10/11/2011 2:36:17 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: Grut
"... judging from Romney’s history, his politics don’t seem to be very constrained by his religion."

Very atstute observation. Let's take it one step further, given our knowledge of MormonISM.

Milt is a 'high priest' in LDS inc, literally. He has taken the oaths and sworn the lines to be a mormonISM 'Melchizadek High Priest'. He is also a bishop in LDS inc parlance, but that is not as significant as his high priest status.

What does it say about the character of a man who would take the oaths of high preist yet repudiate his own oaths for the expediance of political power? ... Yeah, Milt's mormonISM is an important aspect in considering his character. He's not just a flip-flopper, he's a duplicitous abomination: expedience, utilitarian decisions rule the mind of an unstable man like Milt is exposed to be.

46 posted on 10/11/2011 2:46:30 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Grut
"... judging from Romney’s history, his politics don’t seem to be very constrained by his religion."

Very astute observation. Let's take it one step further, given our knowledge of MormonISM.

Milt is a 'high priest' in LDS inc, literally. He has taken the oaths and sworn the lines to be a mormonISM 'Melchizadek High Priest'. He is also a bishop in LDS inc parlance, but that is not as significant as his high priest status.

What does it say about the character of a man who would take the oaths of high priest yet repudiate his own oaths for the expedience of political power? ... Yeah, Milt's mormonISM is an important aspect in considering his character. He's not just a flip-flopper, he's a duplicitous abomination: expedience, utilitarian decisions rule the mind of an unstable man like Milt is exposed to be.

47 posted on 10/11/2011 2:47:07 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

bttt


48 posted on 10/11/2011 3:32:45 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: elcid1970
What is the connection between Mormons and giraffes?

There is a group of "Christians" that like to mock sacredly held beliefs of other faiths, and think it is cute. It is a mocking reference to the temple garment that the LDS wear to remind them of the promises that they made to God in their temples. You see, the "magic underwear" is made from giraffe skin.

It is a rather odd way to demonstrate their Christianity through mocking.

Just don't ask them about the weather.

49 posted on 10/11/2011 4:43:56 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

“You see, the magic underwear is made from giraffe skin”.

LOL! I like the long hard swallowing metaphor better.

BTW, I’m Catholic and I laugh even more when the COJCOLDS calls my faith “the great and abominable church” and “the whore of Babylon”.

“Coffee with breakfast, wine with supper. What could be better?”

;^)


50 posted on 10/11/2011 5:19:33 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: MHGinTN
Milt is a 'high priest' in LDS inc, literally. He has taken the oaths and sworn the lines to be a mormonISM 'Melchizadek High Priest'. He is also a bishop in LDS inc parlance, but that is not as significant as his high priest status.

I was under the impression that the Melchizedek priesthood was available to every little Mormon boy, even dark skinned ones after 1978. Being a Bishop is a lower office than that?

51 posted on 10/11/2011 5:33:23 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: T. P. Pole
You see, the "magic underwear" is made from giraffe skin.

I live and learn! Or are you just being humorous? (I'm easily duped)

52 posted on 10/11/2011 5:36:02 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: Graybeard58

Perhaps you’re thinking of the Aaronic Priesthood, which is conveyed on practically every little LDS boy.


53 posted on 10/11/2011 8:30:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

The Melchizedek priesthood is bestowed on only the “important” men in the church? Yes, I was mistaken. Pardon my ignorance if I’m wrong but wasn’t the last Priest of the Melchizedek Priesthood, Jesus Himself, the last and still “King of Salem”? What is their reasoning concerning their pretended authority to do that?

For that matter, how do they reason, to bestow the Aaronic priesthood on anybody, that office belonging to Aaron and his descendents, all by birth and all of the tribe of Levi?


54 posted on 10/12/2011 3:59:55 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Citizen Cain is good enough for me! - "refermech")
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To: elcid1970
What is the connection between Mormons and giraffes?

Long ago, on one of these anti-Mormon threads, we were told that LDS makes "magic underwear" from giraffe pelts. Personally, I don't believe it, and don't know what the connection is.

55 posted on 10/12/2011 7:41:17 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: T. P. Pole
It is a rather odd way to demonstrate their Christianity through mocking.

So TRUE!!!!

I just HATE when that happens!


Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."


56 posted on 10/12/2011 8:03:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: T. P. Pole
It is a mocking reference to the temple garment that the LDS wear to remind them of the promises that they made to God in their temples.

They had to do SOMEthing; seeing as circumsion was already taken...

57 posted on 10/12/2011 8:04:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Graybeard58

That is almost right; as it is made from the FUR of the animal.

It gets replaced every year, whereas the poor, long necked dude would have to DIE to give up it’s skin.


58 posted on 10/12/2011 8:06:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: laotzu

PELTS?

Nah... bleached flour sacks...

http://books.google.com/books?id=9qxO-FadNckC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=zcmi+garments&source=bl&ots=KwhkkwmrJS&sig=SjY2UPSFeOLIjfLfCnVJCqVwYsI&hl=en&ei=dKyVTqOXHofHsQKckLnvAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=zcmi%20garments&f=false


59 posted on 10/12/2011 8:10:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
(Have ya noticed the Heavenly Father and Mother reference?)
60 posted on 10/12/2011 8:12:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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