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Here’s the thing. I was born before the atomic dust settled from Hiroshima so I remember the last fifty or so years quite clearly. I remember when John F. Kennedy ran for office the republicans raised such a hue and cry about Kennedy taking his marching orders from the Vatican and the Pope that Kennedy did a specific speech explaining that he would be an American president and not a Vatican Stooge.
I think the separation of church and state is important enough to be included in the bill of rights for a reason. I think when someone choses their life’s course there is a black and white choice, you either become part of a political ruling class or you become part of the church hierarchy but never both.
I don’t want a Catholic Bishop or a Lutheran Bishop or a Rabbi as my President for a damn good reason, I question their loyalty. It’s been reported Willard Romney is a Bishop in the Mormon church, where is the repubilcan hue and cry now ?
He’s not just a congregant, as Kennedy was, but a Bishop and a stake President also according to reports I’ve read. As a Bishop did he baptize any holocaust victims as has been reported being done by other members of his church? Did any of the churches in his stake do so under his supervision ? He owes us an honest answer about that. The thing about Mormons and blacks disturbs me also.
If he claims he’s no longer a Bishop, after his Bain capitol quitting claims turning out not to be quite the case , I want a little more reassurance that he will rule fairly over all Americans as the Bishop of his church in the Presidency.
So as Bishop Willard is nominated by the republicans ask yourself why the founding fathers wanted to keep religion at bay rather then turning the government into a branch of a minority religion.
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“Let me count the ways…”
There are so many good reasons to despise Romney, I had almost missed this one. Has to fall under the auspices of IOKIYAR; imagine if a liberal Catholic bishop ran as a Democrat. I don’t believe he would stand a chance in the primaries, but beyond that, the press would go nuts.
Instead, they are playing it down; if the all-important evangelicals had it rubbed in their ignorant faces that Romney was not only Mormon, but a mormon bishop, it would cost him votes. If they knew his grandpappy was born in Mexico, to a polygamist father, how would they react? If those conspiracy minded fools had an inkling of the secret doctrines and rituals practiced by their standardbearer, they would never support him. I would love to see them informed of what Mormons believe the afterlife will be. Good times.
He’s white and the other guys black. That’s enough to a large part of the white population.
tjbs,
the Mormons have what you might call a “lay clergy” and a “Mormon Bishop” is like a temporary pastor. He presides over a particular congregation or “ward” for 2-5 years, and then someone else from the ward is asked or “called” to serve as bishop. Once a bishop is “released” from his calling he goes back to being an ordinary member of the congregation. There is no special training required to be bishop and most men who are stable, long time members of the church in good standing will have served as bishops or bishops counselors at one time or another. It should raise more questions if a man of Mitt Romney’s background and social standing had never been a bishop than the fact that he has been one.
He was also a stake president, which I understand means overlord of four or five bishops. That’s climbing the church ladder.
My main point is the utter hypocrisy of the republicans between the two candidate’s treatment aside from the level of involvement.
Okay, fair point. And if you wanted to make a stronger point about the Romney family you could have brought up the fact that Mitt’s dad’s first cousin was an apostle in the church. There are only 12 of those at any one time and it is a lifetime appointment. That’s really big time in the LDS church. The Romney name is pretty big in the church and I wouldn’t be hugely surprised if Willard was eventually to be called to one of the more exalted posts.