Mitt Romney and Two Political Deists

Your post is entirely irrelevant. No one is proposing that Mormons should be *legally* excluded from being president. But that doesn't mean we're not free to refuse to vote for someone who is in a nutjob cult that holds that black people are inferior creatures.

The LDS church denied the preisthood to blacks but baptised blacks into the church while most of Christianity argued whether or not blacks had souls, or if there was a different heaven for blacks.

Christians in Jefferson's day claim he wasn't a Christian (as do most Christians today) because he rejected their creeds, like the Trinity, which were developed long after the Bible was written. Jefferson read the New Testament in the original Greek, and he was familiar with the influence of Platonic philosophy on the post-biblical creeds. Jefferson, like Washington, was very private about his religious beliefs. The few times he wrote about his beliefs were in reference to those who claimed he wasn't a Christian. He three separate letters he wrote:

"My views of [the Christian religion]...are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian." [letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush]

"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus--very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its Author never said nor saw." [letter to Charles Thomson]

"Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages." [letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse]

I don't understand how those Christians who claim the Bible to be their sole authority on doctrine can condemn Mormons because they don't accept creeds that were developed after the Bible was written.

You don't know what you are talking about. Please visit blacklds.org.

I was very skeptical of Romney at first, but his record/leadership is by far the best. We are electing a president, not a preacher. Dwight Eisenhower was elected as a Jehovah's Witness (after his inauguration he converted to be Presbyterian). Was that bad for our country?

It says in the bible to "Beware of false prophets. By their fruits ye shall know them." They have no paid ministry and mormons are on the whole good people......sure they practiced polygamy one time, but so did prophets/people in the bible. Romney gets things done. He has the best education, excellent family values and proven leadership skills.

Chances are over 90% that if you are born into a mormon or baptist family, you will become an adult mormon or baptist--likewise with any religion. So when you get down on someone for being a mormon, baptist, jew, etc., remember that it is probably the "faith of their fathers" and cut them a little slack. Look deeper into their character, lifestyle, humanity and work ethic. Ann Coulter even feels he's the best still in the race....google "the elephant in the room by ann coulter"