Reid: Right-wingers have taken LDS Church members down 'wrong path'

The Salt Lake Tribune ^

[pogo101]

"The best diplomat I know is a fully-loaded phaser bank."

[Greg F]

However, Reid says he doesn’t have to answer to those who question his faith in the LDS Church. “I have to go get my [temple] recommend, and they’re not present,” he quipped.

Not sure if I should laugh or sigh. A Christian would say it was between him and Christ, or between him and God, not between him and his temple recommend.

[headsonpikes]

Hard to disagree with any of you!

[elhombrelibre]

Good thing his wife wasn’t a Leninist. But then he'd be a more normal Democrat.

[AppyPappy]

I want to see him in Heaven, waving that Temple Recommend before the Throne.

[Disambiguator]

From the title, I thought it was about some church that was do’n acid with reid.

Dyslexia strikes again! :^)

LDS = Latter Day Saints = Mormons.

[Greg F]

[Disambiguator]

"I don't think you can call yourself a true Christian without caring for the poor."

So this dingbat thinks it's "Christian" to extort money from people for Marxist income redistribution schemes (a.k.a. "entitlement programs")? She needs to read her Bible some more.

[DirtyPigpen]

It took a few minutes for my brain to put the letter in the correct order.

[Greg F]

That ought to do it!

[Greg F]

That ought to do it!

[Aikonaa]

The gov't is neither the proper, or best way, to fulfill our obligation toward social responsibility. That is a role for private charity, not for the gov't.

Although I agree with the sentiment, I would also add that perhaps 10% of current beneficients of government-enforced 'social responsibility' are worthy of charity. Health care, other than that of immediate life saving variety, is not a 'right'. Neither is housing beyond minimal shelter.

[peeps36]

Dirty Harry is a fraud who worships at the alter of greed. The American people should take Harry and his comrades out to an empty field where the Marines could practice on moving targets.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

When Pelosi is denied communion.

[17th Miss Regt]

Listen, Harry: you put twenty-thousand pampered, striped pants diplomats on the beach at Normandy under Nazi machine-gun fire,...

Is this really a bad idea?

[Waryone]

"...Recently there's so much that the Democratic Party has embraced; there is so much good that those social causes have done," she said. "I don't think you can call yourself a true Christian without caring for the poor."

As individual Christians, and in with the help of our church and other Christian organizations, we do care for the poor.  But the Lord never instructed us to use the government to steal money from the pockets of everyone, including those who are not Christians to help the poor.  We give to people we find in need.  We work with organizations we trust to help those in need. 

I don't trust the impersonal govt to determine who needs help, nor do I trust them to be the best stewards of money given their wonderful track record.  Anyone who thinks the govt., or the democrat party in particular, helps anyone but itself is delusional.

[mbraynard]

I don't think the current prophet has the bollocks to do that. He's really into marketing, not deep doctrine (per his words).

If I were a Mormon I would be pretty frustrated with the current leadership's go-along-get-along attitude. It seems the only way you can get kicked out is to marry two women.

They need their version of the Panzer Pope.

[mbraynard]

So tell me who you will vote for and I will give you ten morons who are members in good standing.

I think someone said at one point that when you find the perfect religion, join it, and realize that from that moment on it is no longer perfect.

[Little Bill]

If old Harrry was in my GGrandfathers Stake, when he was President, old Harry would have been down the road along time ago.

[kenth]

They love to look down on the poor as if they’re pets. The democrats want people to be poor, otherwise they’ve lost their captive audience.

What’s the best thing that we can do for the poor? It’s not to give them just enough money and incentive to stay poor, but to foster an economic environment that allows them to grow out of poverty.