I would just add that it is likely that Mitt has himself had his "Calling and Election" made sure. Elite mormons are invited to undergo a special ritual, the believed result is that the chosen mormon is actually guaranteed to reach the highest level of the mormon celestial kingdom....before death.
How special is that? Do you ever wonder at Mitt's attitude of superiority? Well, he KNOWS he will "pass by Joseph Smith" at the judgment and sit at the right hand of God himself!
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SECOND ANOINTING or SECOND ENDOWMENT
This ordinance is so rare that many good Mormons do not even know that it exists. It is done only by invitation from the president of the church, to one married couple at a time. It is performed in the Holy of Holies room of the temple by one of the apostles of the church. Those who receive this ordinance are guaranteed of their salvation and exaltation in the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom. The man is anointed as "priest and king" (the wife is anointed "priestess and queen") and their "calling and election [to exaltation] is made sure." Part of the ceremony is performed by the couple in private in their own home, following instructions given during the temple ceremony, and includes the ceremonial washing of feet. One implication of the ceremony is that the recipients will have a personal visitation of Christ. In earlier days many devout Mormons received this ordinance, but since the 1920s it is extremely rare, and probably only given to those in high leadership positions in the church.
Is there some evidence that Massachusetts was run by the LDS leadership during Romney’s governorship? What I see in this article and by some is speculation that Romney will be controlled politically by his church’s leadership.
I don’t see any evidence of this in Romney’s political past. Is there some specific policy decision that you fear the LDS leadership would force on Romney?
I believe LDS is a heretical religion. I disagree with their religious teaching.
However, the constitution states “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
So, I don’t agree with those who would advocate not voting for someone solely based on their membership in the LDS Church. Particularly in this election when the alternative is continuing under the current regime.
thanks for your reply...
When asked, Jesus clearly said that it wasn't even His to give but the Father's.
That's news to me and one of the reasons I keep up with these threads, sometimes late and sometimes even days late but I eventually get to them and try to read all the replies. Just when I think I know all of mormon's atrocious, even blasphemous beliefs, I learn something new.
The Republican party has chosen someone who swallows all this nonsense to be their presidential candidate.
This election is in God's hands, as they all are but I have a strong sense that He's telling me to vote for neither evil and that's what I will do, I'll vote for Virgil Goode or that Tom fellow FReeper, I don't remember his last name.
Come quickly Lord Jesus.
Is that his stance today? It hasn't always been and it may not be the same tomorrow and queer adoption is still hunky dory with Mitt.
As many here already know, my wife and I very recently adopted two children, it pains me to think that there was even a remote chance that these beautiful children, God's children, might have ever been adopted to perverts, yet other children are being put in that position and the republican candidate thinks it's fine, "as long as the pervert's love each other".