And FWIW, your patent dishonesty probably helps Romney - his supporters (of which I am not one) can point to your absolutely insane posts and use them to paint all Mormon critics as total loons - like you.
Posted on 05/22/2012 8:47:57 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
The stunning expansion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Washington, D.C., area is profiled in a long, interesting and meticulously accurate CNN story that suggests "the nation's capital has become a Mormon stronghold, with Latter-day Saints playing a big and growing role in the Washington establishment."
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"It's hard to point to federal legislation or a White House initiative that bears distinctly Mormon fingerprints," Gilgoff writes, "while it's easy to do the same for other faiths." He cites as an example a recent White House "compromise" on contraception funding, which he says was "mostly a reaction to pressure from Roman Catholic bishops."
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
And the march continues - place marker
Can’t BE!
It’s almost June!
And ONE incident.
Now compare that to the widespread abuse Christians receive at the hands of Muslims in Muslim countries.
Let alone the real fear of death that a convert faces anywhere.
Y'all really need to get some perspective here. I agree Mormonism is a strange cult. But I do not see them as anywhere near the threat to this country that Islam is, as a poster has claimed on this thread.
You are a fundamentally dishonest poster, typical of a zealot.
You were asked repeatedly if you would feel safer in Salt Lake City or Cairo - you evaded answering the 'safer' part.
And now, when asked to provide any evidence of Mormons facing persecution or death for leaving the LDS faith, you present me with a list of LDS murders.
That is not the same thing.
So since honest debate with you is impossible, you can kiss my pasty rump.
And FWIW, your patent dishonesty probably helps Romney - his supporters (of which I am not one) can point to your absolutely insane posts and use them to paint all Mormon critics as total loons - like you.
It is truly pathetic that you attempt to paint the entire LDS church with that episode, given the Laffertys railed against the mainstream LDS church.
You attempt is akin to trying to paint all Baptists with the antics of Fred Phelps.
You are a loon as well.
I am fascinated that you ask questions, questions are answered, then you dismiss those very answers because they do not fit your narrative.
I am fascinated but not surprised that you can pretend that my questions were answered at all.
Sandy? Is that you?
I suppose you define the "hatred toward mormonism" to be the revelation in our posts of the utter hatred toward Christians and Christianity by the mormon church since the very founding of mormonism.
Find the "love" in these comments by mormon leaders.
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a) it’s not ‘new’. I’ve been a Christian for almost 20 years now.
b) my faith is more important then politics and I will not vote for someone who is pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage.
If you want to vote for Romney, go ahead. But don’t waste your time trying to get me to, to vote for Romney would be to deny my faith and my time in Mormonism.
Hey! I thought you thought Deb was Sandy in her retread form? I’m so confused now.
C'mon svcw. That's intellectually dishonest. Every one of those examples of murders were mormon on mormon (or family) or just some crazed individuals with their own pathology. If you're not mormon (as most of us are not), the mormons have posed no physcial threat. UNLIKE the adherents of radical Islam. The threat to non-Muslims from Muslims is real - google Daniel Pearl or 9/11. NO such incidences of mass terrorism on generic non-mormons exist from mormons and it is beyond ludicrous to suggest otherwise. Good grief.
It would require a willing suspension of disbelief to equate these mormon missionaries with the crazed adherents of islam. Don’t you think?
Apparently you have missed where the questions asked were answered.
Wasn't me.
Deb, except for her illogical defense of mormonism, does make sense on other threads. She seems to direct her hostility towards us.
The stupidity of running a mormon for the office of POTUS against a BLACK man LDS Historical Rhetoric Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks and the unquestioning support of FReepers is mind boggling.
IF Romney should happen to win, the attacks that were leveled against W will seem mild given the history of the mormon church on Christianity, Race, polygamy, baptism of the dead...etc. etc. etc.
Also, Mitt's personality is a turn-off to many.
Virgil Goode-2012
Btw, WHAT'S up with the interspersed ALL caps THING? Is that part of the RULES of being a MEMBER of the FI SOCIETY?
Several Flying Inmen have archives that can be tapped....and for actual newspaper accounts of history, Uncle Dale has a lot of information.
Uncle Dale's Readings in Early Mormon History
Another interesting article...
Theocracy in America - influence of Mormon Church on society in Utah
Caps? What are you talking about, and are you trying another thread high-jack?
So I challenge you to find ONE POST I have made on FR that promotes Mitt Romney. ONE POST.
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