Vote "No" on Anti-Mormon Rhetoric

Recently both in a college class and in my church, I defended the mormon faith as you have as well. In college, the professor said it was a racist faith that was a cult. In church, we were told to pray for a missonary who was going to Utah to "convert" them. Both were obviously wrong. However, Gov. Romney is to me personally not a good example of the Mormon faith. He has repeatly switched his positions to the political wind, a move I cannot support (espically since I agreed with most of his oringinal positions in the first place). I have met Gov. Romney personally and feel he may be a decent man but a horrible President.

Thank you for your comment. You sound like an exceptional college student, and a person who understands tolerance. I have never met Mitt Romney, so I wouldn't know how to respond as far as that goes. As far as switching positions, though, are you aware of the fact the Ronald Wilson Reagan was pro-choice when he was governor of California. He changed his position later. This is a pretty big issue to change one's position on, and, yet, he was one of our greatest presidents. Some say he was even the greatest president.

Since you liked Mitt Romney when you met him, why not just give him the benefit of the doubt for a litte while, you know, cut him some slack. Maybe you will still decide at that point that you don't think he would make a good president, but at least you would have given him a fair chance. And I can see that you are a very fair-minded person.

Thank you for your comments.

Best Wishes and God Bless,

Susan Baldwin,
Conservative Wordsmith

Gabby writes: Wednesday, September, 19, 2007 10:00 PM
"The only place I hear about anti-Mormon
rhetoric is on this blog."

"Stop talking about it and it will go away."

If it's only on this site, Im the Pope.

Are you saying that facts and history are anti mormon? Do you know how this "religion" started?

Are you a Bible believer thru faith, and still believe that this accult should be "accepted" because they're kind and a great contributor to our society?

Be honest... your standing up foir him because you think he's gonna be the nominee, right? obviously that's what your doing because you can't say your a Bible believing Christian, yet support someone that's contrary to what we believe - That Jesus Christ is our Lord & savior, dies on the cross and rose on the third day... that He is the Son of God, and is co-equal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit..
Mitt, and the Gospel are contrary.
Hey - he's a nice , likable guy - but not for an Evangelical. Remember - he "becomes" what he wants others to believe he is, depending on what office he's running for.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12205

Fourteen times, the ethics commission -- a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group -- investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And, as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.

He used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a "charitable" organization he set up while lieutenant governor -- an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious "charity."

Huckabee has been criticized, reasonably so, for misusing the state airplane for personal reasons. And he and his wife, Janet, actually set up a "wedding gift registry" (they had already been married for years) to which people could donate as the Huckabees left the governorship, in order to furnish their new $525,000 home.