Posted on 08/12/2018 12:37:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney is calling on Americans to “categorically and consistently reject racism and discrimination” on the anniversary of racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and on the eve of a repeat of the Unite the Right rally this year in Washington, DC. The former Massachusetts governor and current US Senate candidate in Utah issued a lengthy statement on Friday defending equality, steeped in his religious upbringing and belief that “we are all children of God.”
Romney, who ran against President Barack Obama as the 2012 Republican nominee for president, touched on a number of issues in his post. He weighed in on President Donald Trump’s equivocal reaction to the gathering of the alt-right and white supremacists in 2017, though he did not mention the president by name. He also suggested that it’s misguided to perceive pushes for equal opportunity by groups that have historically been discriminated against as grabs for a disproportionate share of the pie....
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Even St. Jude couldn't save Romney's political career.
Mitt, Which God are you referring too?.
Your God, the Christian Gods, the Jewish God, the Muslim God, etc?.
Those Gods are different, and require different behavior from their adherents. - Tom
Some have pointed out ways that LDS mimicked Islam. That surprised me at first, but apparently some Muslims and LDS admit the similarities:
“Recently I received a phone call from two Church members in Los Angeles who had become acquainted with a Muslim neighbor from Pakistan. When they shared with him the story of Joseph Smith’s First Vision, his response surprised them. After stating that Muslims accept no prophets after Muhammad, he said that Joseph Smith’s story shared similarities with Muhammad’s. He said, “We believe Muhammad encountered a divine messenger who informed him of his new calling as prophet. He received revelations of new scripture that contains God’s word to mankind, and he established a community of believers that developed into a major world religion”
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2000/08/a-latter-day-saint-perspective-on-muhammad?lang=eng
and then this:
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1972/03/islam-and-mormonism-a-comparison?lang=eng
In particular, “Mormonism,” he writes, “excited my interest at an early age before all else because of the surprising analogy, extending even to the smallest details, between it and the fundamental drives, external forms, and historical development of Islam: here one might hope to discover significant clues for a proper understanding of Mohammed and his religion. … there is hardly another historical parallel as instructive as this one. … It is impossible to undertake the scholarly investigation of the one without a closer acquaintance with the other.”4
“Mormon history isn’t exactly sterling when it comes to racism- blacks were discriminated against in the LDS until 1978.....”
Stop using that argument. Don’t you know that God all of the sudden changed his mind during the Carter administration?
An agent provocateur.
He was a rioter and organizer at Occupy Wall St, a Soetoro fan boy and a huge Lefty.
We are supposed to believe that, on election day 2016 the scales fell from his eyes like Saul on the road to Damascus and he became a neo Nazi, White supremacist that loudly supports the President.
I have no doubt that Soros and/or the DNC is still signing his paycheck.
James O'Keefe needs to do an exposé on this mutt.
I thought Trump’s statement was better
No mention of the right to free speech?
No mention of the right to free speech?
No mention of the right to free speech?
This flip-flopper was:
1. Massachusetts Governor - where he was a complete liberal
2. Utah Senator Candidate - where he is expected to be ???
The LDS FRpers must be red with embarrassment.
If President Trump was to get impeach, guess who would become the next President? Believe it or not a very devout Christian by the name of VP Mike Pence.
Second President Trump’s statement.
I can not believe I once supported this man! Listening to him now I feel like he owes me a refund of my political contribution.
Name 1 national politician that’s conservative / constitutional and LDS ? Raised as an LDS. Biggest group of cowardly hypocrites in my experience. Others experiences may differ but what a fricking waste.
That was the year I’d given up voting. What would have been the point?
So I’ve heard.
The Exalted Man in charge of Planet Kolob issued a new memo.
Because our deplorable half of America has been presumably embracing racism and discrimination until Saint Mitt gave us this stern lecture, right? And meanwhile, do allow him to whip out photos of his parents posing with famous Negroes to prove his own saintliness (see his personal website from which this maudlin polemic is taken).
The Left, the Press, the Never Trumpers and all the rest continue to get it wrong when they fall into lockstep with this "you're all racists" smear, and I suspect they will have stepped into a slop bucket when the November election results come in. (David Brooks pulled the same crap this week on PBS, with the same arrogant supposition that Trump is all about "white identity.") They haven't figured out that Trump’s America has no color, because he grew up in a post-1960s society that taught us all we were supposed to be color-blind. But the Left and the Never Trumpers are damned, bound and determined to keep pounding the race drums, to keep trying to divide us, to carve us into ever tinier clots of squalling toddlers, endlessly complaining how offended everyone is. The Left and the Never Trumpers are firmly rooted in their belief that 50% of this country is inhabited by brown skin-hating, white supremacists, and that our President has tapped in to our inner brown shirts.
Well, 26% of American blacks support him now, and that number keeps rising, as does the percentage of pro-Trump hispanics.
So it's utter pap.
America is a child of the Enlightenment, and skin color hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it.
We should NEVER get tk that point...EVER. And, yes, Pence is a good dude, but he’s not Trump.
His father was no better.
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