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Despite disapproval of Romney's faith, many evangelicals say that won't affect their vote
Chattanooga time free press ^ | 10/7/12 | Clint Cooper

Posted on 10/07/2012 10:09:24 AM PDT by barmag25

Chattanooga-area evangelical church pastors may believe the Mormon faith is a cult and may not consider Gov. Mitt Romney a Christian, but they said that won't stop them from considering a vote for him in next month's presidential election.

More than eight in 10 voters in a Pew Forum poll this summer said they were comfortable with the Republican nominee's faith or it didn't matter to them. Nineteen percent said they were uncomfortable with his faith.

"We are electing a president, not a pastor," said Tim Shoap, co-pastor of Signal Mountain Bible Church. "I want the best and most effective leader we can get, [one] who will represent the interests of the people and the country in keeping with the original intent of the Constitution. For me, that makes the Mormon issue largely irrelevant."

While members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider themselves Christians, several local evangelical pastors do not.

"Mormonism is a cult," said Jeremy Roberts, pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church. "Mormons are polytheistic universalists who deny that Jesus is the eternal son of God."

However, he said he would base his vote on "policy, leadership skills and who I perceive will most likely lead the country in the direction I believe is best."

(Excerpt) Read more at timesfreepress.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2012issues; christianvote; elections; lds; ldschurch; romney; romney2012
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To: barmag25

His track record (which most ignore) manifestly indicates that Romney is not a social conservative. Regardless of who wins, social conservatives lose. That is the sad state in which we find ourselves today.


21 posted on 10/07/2012 10:49:37 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Mitt Romney is a handbasket driver. I refuse to ride.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
I encourage everyone to become fully informed and seek the Lord’s guidance and wisdom and vote their conscience.”

I have and my conscience and my Christ "say do not vote for a man who denies Me."

I am fully informed about mormonism, unfortunately, most are not.

22 posted on 10/07/2012 10:52:35 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: chris37; All

Amen...


23 posted on 10/07/2012 10:54:57 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Romney / Ryan 2012)
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To: ChocChipCookie

If you vote for Mitt Romney you vote to support someone who will protect the unborn, support marriage (as defined as one woman married to one man), is committed to family, believes in freedom of religion and a strong defense of your country.
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Oh dear your pastor is wrong in so many of those ...

1. Willard is lifelong pro-abortion
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2. Willard is the father of same sex marrige...(and belongs to a religion that adheres to polygamy for advancement to godhood...)

3. Willard has been proxy to dead dunk non-mormos int oimormonism a religion they probably hated or objected to..

4. Willard used to go to the doors of Christians and tell them they were going to Hell because they were not Mortmons

5 Willard is a 2 time draft dodger..

6.theres no proof he believes inb a strong defense and miliary

7 Willard wants gays in the miitary...thats a dumbing down and weakened defense...


24 posted on 10/07/2012 10:55:01 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: barmag25
a canard pushed by some on this very forum that folks like me...Southern baptist...won't vote for Obama cause he is a Mormon

let me tell all you goofballs here

it ain't happening

that is absolutely the most preposterous claim pushed by the “there can be only one church” bunch here ever

I do not know one Southern Prod out of 100s i know who is taking a stance like that in Mississippi or Tennessee

folks want Obama gone...because they oppose almost every single action he has taken since he took office..and if a Mormon can do that for now so be it

besides...frankly the job Southern baptists have done as POTUS is not much to my liking either...nor Catholics...Carter..Clinton..Kennedy

I'd be just as happy with a conservative Jew or even conservative Rosicrucian or Baha'i...if there are such things

25 posted on 10/07/2012 10:58:20 AM PDT by wardaddy (my wife prays in the tanning bed....guess what region i live in...ya'll?)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Prove it.


26 posted on 10/07/2012 10:58:55 AM PDT by madison10
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To: chris37
Agreed. Couldn't care careless.

Repeal Obamacare, cut spending, and appoint decent justices. Outside of that, Romney can worship snakes for all I care.

27 posted on 10/07/2012 11:01:18 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions anonymus by the ATF***)
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To: chris37

Not entirely true 37.
You care what obama denies or doesn’t deny.
You care about what the democrat party denies or doesn’t deny.
Why would you not care what Romney denies or does not deny?
You care deeply what people believe, otherwise you would not care about “plane flying murders”.
The real questions is: does what Romney beleive affect how he lives his life and how he will govern?
The answer is: of course.
What a person believes is their core.
Romney is a practitioner of mormonism, he is at his core, in everything he says and does a mormonism follower.


28 posted on 10/07/2012 11:11:48 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: beandog; Tennessee Nana

Interesting, we have in our presence on FR, the reader of a person’s heart.
I am in awe.


29 posted on 10/07/2012 11:13:28 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: italianquaker

Well if you give credence to Mormonism you should go back to considering Obama...

If Mormonism is a valid religion to you, then Obama is more or equal to Willard...

To temple believing Mormons like Willard Obama is also a Mormon...

Willard has admitted that he stood proxy and was dunked in the temple cow pool to get some dead folk into his religion..

He believes in that process...

If your Christ ian graqndma gets dead dunked into Mormonism years after her death she is a Mormon...

In June 2008 the happy atheist Stanley Ann Dunham was dead dunked into Mormonism, then temple married to Obamas already married father Barak Obama Sr (polygamy is a basic belief of Mormonism) and the recieved every honor and endowment possible ...probably including the coveted “2nd anointing” something both Harry Reid and Willard have..

and then she was “sealed” to her children making them temple Mormons with all those “endowments” too...

So you see we have the first Mormon president already...a black man

the racists Joey Smith and Brigham Young are rolling over in their grves...have been since 2008...

For the Obama family the process was done correctly...so Obama is a Mormon..

Anyhoo only a bigot would say that Obama is not a Mormon...

So its Mormon or Mormon...

Godless or Godless

Faithless or faithless

Liberal or liberal...

Progressive or progressive..

Socialist or socialist..


30 posted on 10/07/2012 11:15:27 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: barmag25

I seriously doubt Romney will wage a WAR ON Catholics or Christians or.. BABIES.


31 posted on 10/07/2012 11:19:11 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: barmag25

Cult-Schmult I could care less. Every Mormon I ever met was clean cut and pleasant. I’ll take Mormons over Marxists any day.

Contrast Obama ex?-druggie, choom gang, pot head, nicotein fiend and coke snorter in his yoof so they say.
Compare to Mitt your standard issue Mormon who is forbidden alcohol, tobacco, caffeine. Mitt looks like he takes none of those. His favorite snack is peanut butter& jelly and a glass of milk.


32 posted on 10/07/2012 11:20:58 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: Tennessee Nana

It is just not possible to explain what our post says to people who know nothing about mormonism but the PR.


33 posted on 10/07/2012 11:21:10 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: dennisw

mormons are not prohibited from having caffeine, they are prohibited from having hot drinks.


34 posted on 10/07/2012 11:22:41 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: wardaddy

Looks like it is up to s Mormon to take out the trash. Mitt is up to the job and nothing wrong with that. It’s not going to happen but if Mitt brings in a Mormon cabal to run DC and maintains a direct pipeline to the Mormon Church Supremo (bishop?) in Salt Lake City, I could care less. Just so long as Jug Ears and his Marxist regime get the boot.


35 posted on 10/07/2012 11:27:10 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: Fresh Wind
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36 posted on 10/07/2012 11:29:43 AM PDT by 1035rep (Obama: "I killed Bin Laden" ...you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

ok still voting for Romney over the muslim but thnx


37 posted on 10/07/2012 11:30:13 AM PDT by italianquaker (The 47 pct need to pay their fair share)
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To: svcw

My pastor this morning said that there were 1500 pastors around the country who were going to tell their congregations how to vote and to challenge their tax exemption status...

he said that he was approached about it and he told them he was goiun gto vote his values...God’s values...

and then he told us to vote God’s values...

Good for him...

Yesterday he participated as he does every year in the Walk for Life...

against abortion and to raise money for a local unwed mothers home..

obviously he has done his homework and fouynd out that Willard is life-long pro-abortion...


38 posted on 10/07/2012 11:32:50 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: barmag25

The reason Progressives side with Muslims is because they’re both anti-Christian. I think you’re on to the liberty angle, but following the thread of history and you don’t find liberty growing up out of either philosophy or worldview. Liberty is a uniquely Christian aberration to the history of mankind.

Eliminate the nuisance of the Christian idea and ideals and you go a long way back toward totalitarianism. Furthermore, both Islam and Progressivism are intolerant, elitist, and socialistic. Statists flock together.


39 posted on 10/07/2012 11:36:02 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: dennisw

All true and just think of the millions of tax payer dollars we’re going to save in just the Obama’s lavish vacations alone.

They think we owe it to them!


40 posted on 10/07/2012 11:39:56 AM PDT by 1035rep (Obama: "I killed Bin Laden" ...you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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