[noinfringers2]

I think I’m betwixt and between on arguments as to Romney’s spiritual status. I can’t agree with some of what I know about the Mormon religion/faith but I do know Mormons who I am pleased with their societal actions and that certainly shows to me a body of people I believe as to this day and age would satisfy our Founders intent for this Nation. This belief does not necessarily extend to Romney at the moment. As a youth I was confirmed in a a very rigid Lutheran doctrine. My brother who was very athletic and I were chastised for having our names associated with the Catholic sports teams we played on for lack of enough players in our Lutheran School. I feel this breech of doctrinal behavior has kind of colored my attitude about religious differences even though I have faith and guidance in my Lutheran religious faith.

[Elsie]

...our Founders intent for this Nation.

Oh?

 

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT

In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November [New Style, November 21], in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.

Signing the Mayflower Compact by Edward Percy Moran

John Carver William Bradford Edward Winslow William Brewster Isaac Allerton Miles Standish John Alden Samuel Fuller Christopher Martin William Mullins

William White James Chilton John Craxton John Billington Richard Warren John Howland Steven Hopkins Edward Tilly John Tilly Francis Cook

Thomas Rogers Thomas Tinker John Rigdale Edward Fuller John Turner Francis Eaton Moses Fletcher Digery Priest Thomas Williams Gilbert Winslow

Edmond Margeson Peter Brown Richard Bitteridge Richard Clark Richard Gardiner John Allerton Thomas English Edward Doten Edward Liester John Goodman George Soule

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[RetiredArmy]

Again, I repeat. I know many good Mormon people. They are loving, kind, gentle, sweet, giving, helpful, etc. I served in the Army with one of the finest men I ever knew in the world who was a Mormon. He had me over to dinner with his family. His wife was the perfect host and wife. HOWEVER, their beliefs are wrong according to the Holy Bible. We know that it preaches ONLY through Jesus Christ will we see the Father. ONLY through Him. They deny Him. In fact, I have read where they say the Cross is a waste of time and a folly!! Wrong. Look at their temples. NO CROSSES on those temples. Look closely and you see an emblem that is almost satanic. ONLY by that Cross do we have a saving grace of the power of the atoning blood of the Savior. Denying Him gets you a first class ticket down. Not up. I don’t hate them. I pray for them that they truly see the Light. I have listened to many ex-Mormons tell their stories of how lost they discovered they were in that religion. Belief in Jesus Christ is not a religion. It is a personal walk with the one and only Redeeming Savior of the universe. The Creator God of the universe. Only by Him. Simple as that. Not by a book found by a man lost in the woods at age 14.