[Colofornian]

From the article: …according to NY state court records……legal bills from separate charges filed against Joseph Smith…show, was arrested three times in the county between 1826 and 1830 for...Smith’s involvement in “glass looking,” or searching for treasure, and “being a disorderly person.”

Ya gotta know that Smith published the Book of Mormon in 1830 and he was arrested for these charges when he was in his early 20s.

From the article: describes LDS beliefs on the gods: …LDS Prophet Brigham Young taught: “How many Gods there are, I do not know…" …obedient Mormons can evolve into gods as McKeever describes...

Who wants to vote for a future "god?" (Isn't supporting a wannabe-god itself an extension of idolatry?)

[Colofornian]

From the article: …Joseph Smith did not have a high view of Blacks, stating “Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species..."...Brigham...Young also claimed, This people...commonly called negroes are the children of old Cain. I know they are…You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, sad, low in their habits, wild, and seemingly without the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind…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...is death on the spot. This will always be so. …LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie further explains: …the negro are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concern(ed)...” (Mormon Doctrine, 527-28; 1966...)

Utter and horrid racism! And Romney supported this indirectly with 10% of his income the first 13 years of his adulthood...when the policies based on this racism were still openly practiced?

Ya think that an MSM that made much ado about an overturned rock on Rick Perry family's hunting grounds won't make the 2012 campaign one of a referendum vs. racism if it becomes a Romney vs. Obama match-up?

[Colofornian]

SNIP From the article: …according to geneticist Simon G. Southerton in his Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church…studies of mitochondrial DNA of Native Americans conclusively prove the Mormon claim of descent from Israeli immigrants is unsupported by DNA evidence…LDS lost many adherents as a result…

Mormons have even lost their own geneticists over this...along with grassroots Mormons who actually take the time to study this.

[The Great RJ]

I worry far less about Romney’s Mormonism than I do about Obama’s “religion” what ever it might be. We know he spent 20 years listening to Rev. Wright’s racist, Marxist and anti-American vitriol and clearly has an affinity for Islam that will have him siding with Muslim causes even if they are threats to this country.

[Colofornian]

What I find rather "interesting" about this article is that even though the author knows fairly thoroughly the devastating downsides of Mormonism, the author actually still seems to be pro-Romney and is encouraging people to ready their defenses to answer these challenges.

In a post about three weeks ago, FREEPER poster Ansel12 made a rather interesting observation:

Unfortunately, for Romney to win the votes of Christians what will first happen, is that conservative writers, radio hosts, columnists, social conservative leaders, all of our talking heads, thinkers, and millions of rank and file conservatives and Christians will be drawn into the largest collection of, the most diverse collection of, the most creative collection of Mormon apologists, in history. Mormonism will be daily rationalized, ways to smooth over Christian concerns will be thought of and delivered on the air waves, just as Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved already do. Limbaugh and others will fall into a daily routine of countering and defeating Christian protests against Mormonism. New creative thoughts and reasoning will come from National Review, and Fox The right will be sucked into becoming the foot soldiers of mainstreaming and rationalizing Mormonism.
Source: Special report -Mormonism besieged by the modern age [Lds church is hemorrhaging in member losses]

This is the true underlying "agenda" of the Mormon church putting forth a POTUS candidate.

They wanna go "mainstream" once and for all -- and they want Christians to help them come alongside of them to become fellow apologists for this cult!

(Of course, it won't hurt the Mormon church to (a) have a puppet in the White House; and (b) Believe the fulfillment is under way of their long prophesied "White Horse Prophecy," either!)

Me?

I think once Christians embrace a pro-abortion, socialist RomneyCare cultist who thinks he's on his way to being a grown-up god, that passage from Peter in the New Testament kicks in:

"Judgment begins in the household of God." NIV version: For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:17)

(Put aside for just a moment judgment of the world...that's an inevitable...Is the church of Jesus Christ ready for the beginning of a divine judgment against them for abandoning the least of these (preborns) and aiding and abetting an idolater come into power?)

[Old Sarge]

Leftist Opposition Research. They’ll be all over these tidbits like ugly on an ape.

[texican01]

I agree with your assessment of the Mormon Cult -——However the USA elected an apostate Muslim president in 2008 and nobody said a peep!!

Mormonism is paragon of “modernism” in comparison to the 7th Century Moon God religion.