[Colofornian]

From the article: Bill McKeever, founder of Mormonism Research Ministry, a Evangelical Christian ministry challenging the claims of Mormonism, said "people need to ask themselves if Romney's Mormonism will affect them personally, and if so, in what way." McKeever said it is not rare for Mormons to excuse the comments of their past leaders by classifying them as "speculation or opinion." "To imply that the ban on blacks holding the priesthood was mere ‘policy' is also misleading," McKeever said. Jabriel Ballentine, seminarian at Virginia Theological Seminary, said “everyone should question the beliefs of all the candidates”. "We might not agree with all of the beliefs of any candidate. However, we must pay attention to the implications of one enacting their beliefs," Ballentine said..

From the article: The Mormons famously put their heresy this way: “As man is now, God once was. As God is now, man may become.”

Lds "prophet" Lorenzo Snow is the one who delivered this doctrinal couplet into the hands of Mormons. But he was merely giving a succinct version of the doctrine promoted by Joseph Smith in 1844...from the King Follett sermon.

But let's "Personalize" this couplet: Mormons essentially believe the following: “As Mitt Romney is now, God once was. As God is now, Mitt Romney may become.”

NOW do you understand the blasphemy a bit better?

Or how about this application of Mormon doctrine? “As Harry Reid is now, God once was. As God is now, Harry Reid may become.”

[Envisioning]

Now that it looks more like Romney will get the nomination, the media will start in on the Mormonisms.

I hope all the people who could not vote for Newt, because of his past transgressions, have a good view from their moral high ground to watch Romney lose to Obama.

[svcw]

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[COBOL2Java]

“As Harry Reid is now, God once was. As God is now, Harry Reid may become.”

Man, I feel sorry for the people who'll be on Harry's planet! How'd you like to worship THIS?

[Kevmo]

It’s inevitable that team Obama would start in on his mormonism and pulls the racist card.

If the man can’t break free some something as demonstrably false as mormonism, what kind of president would he make?

[Joe the Pimpernel]

Not until after he wins the nomination.

Then Mormonism will magically become the primary issue.

[Paladin2]

Better to worry about Hairy Reed’s Mormon beliefs.

[OKSooner]

Recommended reading: "Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters?", by escaped Mormon Tricia Erickson.

http://www.amazon.com/Can-Mitt-Romney-Serve-Masters/dp/1449711995/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332429082&sr=1-1

[DesScorp]

I'm an ex-Mormon that left years ago precisely because the more I read, the more it was apparent that Joseph Smith was a con-artist and fraud, the L Ron Hubbard of his day ("The real money is in starting a religion" - LRH). Real, undeniable proof of this is the "Book of Abraham", Smith's "translation" of some Egyptian papyri that Egyptologists call an outright fraud. Smith literally just made stuff up that didn't even come close to what the true translation of the hieroglyphics said.

So, with that said, understand this: I care not one whit about Mittens' religion. There are a number of Mormons that would make outstanding Presidents. Most Mormons are outstanding people. My problem with Romney is that I think he's a modern day Nixon, a RINO that will say and do anything to win but has no bedrock conservative principles. So all of the guff you hear about "They hate him because he's a Mormon" is an excuse.

[Salvation]

Fixing the headline:

Mitt Romney’s Mormon beliefs are something we should worry about!

[yldstrk]

yes

[yldstrk]

WE SHOULD QUESTION CANDIDATES RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Including Obama’s

[originalbuckeye]

The difference between Dems and Pubbies is that Pubbies will hold their own accountable. NOT ONE DEM in the House or Senate will speak up against the burgeoning encroachment of Obama into other’s areas of Constitutional powers. IF Mitt is our next President, I do not expect him to elevate Mormonism to any level in our daily/weekly/monthly/yearly lives. But yes, Obama will try to destroy him by destroying his religion. Obama has no core/soul. For months we have had TV ads showing all different color/ethnicities, etc., speaking about their ordinary lives, ending with ‘I am a Mormon’. If Mitt is President, I expect OUR SIDE to hold him to Conservative principles. I DON'T CARE WHAT RELIGION OUR NOMINEE IS, I WILL VOTE AGAINST OBAMA.

[ZX12R]

Romney being our nominee, is something we should be worried about.

[blueunicorn6]

OBEY AND PAY OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

[madison10]

Romney isn’t going to use his Mormonism to go after black people. That’s how Obama and Jones think about the white, but not Romney.

This from the same people who give credence to Farakhan’s fairy tale of the Mothership.

[CodeToad]

There are only two cults I worry about: Muslims and Mormons, as both were started by child-molesting murderers that subject women to harsh teatments. Both cults were started for power and sex.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

As "goofy" as Mormon theology is it will not cause Romney to hurt the American people. Most Mormons are pretty good citizens, follow the Protestant ethic and try to be honest. Romney's failings are personal; i.e. lack of core political beliefs.

[redhead]

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[FastCoyote]

Both left and right are going to ream Etch-A-Sketch a new one as soon as he gets the nomination. He was never vetted by Republicans on the Mormon cult issue, this will haunt us.

[Elsie]

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"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.

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Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'

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August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."

"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."

"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)

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1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

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We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.

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Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."

(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

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When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

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When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."

(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)

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Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

 

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

 

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

 

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