Your comment makes no sense. The point of the article is that if the Repubs were so racist, Herman Cain wouldn't stand a chance. But that clearly isn't the case. Following your logic, you must mean that Repubs are going to say that Herman Cain isn't American either because he is black like Obama, and Repubs think all Blacks are unamerican because they are racist. Right? Obama can "prove" he was born in the US with a birth certificate, but Obama gives people plenty of reasons to think he doesn't love America. He is married to a woman who wasn't "proud" of America until into her late 30s/early 40s. I haven't heard much praise of America coming from Obama or his wife. For the president to be so down on his own country is pretty...

JHow -- "Although I made the mistake below of riling our Mormon friends" [You were very even handed, and I was just trying to clarify doctrine], "Beck's Mormon faith is really beside the point here. The success of his rally has been the appeal to Americans of all faiths." Yes, that is the take away from the rally, and I think it will have a very positive effect in the long run.

William, There are not any different sects of "Mormonism.' Every member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has the same commandments, the same teaching, the same expectations. If somebody chooses to do or not to do something that is their own choice. Period. Maybe you meant that there were several off shoots of Mormonism in the early period of the church -- before the 1900's. For example, there were those who didn't follow Brigham Young to Utah, those who continued to practice polygamy, or those who wanted the prophet of the church to only be somebody related by blood to Joseph Smith. None of those groups are Mormon sects or related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in any way. To say so is...

Dear William, As I said before, this is not a religious forum yet people seem intent to speak incorrectly about Mormonism. I appreciate your concern with my eternal salvation. I have been baptized and love talking about my religion but not on TH. My religion is not perfect and neither is yours, whatever it is. Did Glen Beck walk around his stage on 8-28 and identify religious and/or political differences amongst the people on stage? No. The point of the rally was to transcend those differences for the greater good of celebrating a common belief in God and the Almighty and the desire to see a country use that faith to unite them. We need to embrace points in common as we work to fight against the truly dangerous elements that...

One last comment about why it is degrading to Mormons to continue to label them as unchristian: So-called "Christians" like the hate-spewing, racist, Rev (G_d D____ America) Wright hardly sound like one but are roundly accepted as one. On the other hand, GBeck throughout his rally sounds like a CHristian, but is not accepted as one because of some group's definition of what constitutes a CHristian faith. I say drop the definition and listen to what somebody says and what they do.

Exactly.

I respectfully say that you are not correct in what you think Mormons believe. Why bring up all this religious talk on a political site? Frankly, that is better left to a religious forum where EXPERTS talk about their own faiths, not where people talk about what they think they know about a faith. But just to be clear, Mormons believe that Jesus as the son of God is a god as well. He has the power of God to perform miracles -- how do you think he turned a basket of food into enough to fee 5000 (with leftovers), brought the dead to life and healed the sick? Those are what he did with his power which is also the power that God has. Salvation comes through Christ through the sacrifice of his life for us. Believing and following him...

You sound like you are honestly trying to understand where Beck is coming from (e.g. how his religion informs his statements/this rally). I am Mormon and always a bit taken back by people who aren't mormon and claim to know so much about it when what they say is not true. What you said here is what Mormons also believe: "I thought you guys had a lot of sects but the key was that you believed in Salvation through Christ and the New Testament? Don't mormons believe that also?" Yes, we do. We do not believe that the members of the Holy Trinity are one person. We actively preach that God is the Father of JEsus Christ who was born of Mary exactly as outlined in the New Testament and that the Holy Ghost is the 3rd part of that trinity...

And the MSM will do their best to portray any good news as proof positive that the Stimulus bill was a complete success. In the meantime, the rest of us are living through it and haven't seen/probably won't see the proof in the pudding for a long, long time, if at all. But you can count on the MSM talking about how great things are and give all the credit to Obama -- just in time to re-elect Obama.

I love reading about true heroes like this man. What a patriot and example. I hope my sons grow up to be like him.