cme1201
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Post by cme1201 on May 13, 2011 8:50:45 GMT -5
I'm guessing you don't know what you posted Lakhota so I'll help everyone out, the bashing of the mormon religion is in post 2 not 1 semantics, but reply #1 is post #2. I have a question, and I have a feeling I'm just missing the tongue-in-cheek tone from the content. Jon Huntsman, who’s expected to announce his presidential candidacy before the end of May, apparently failed to receive the memo informing him that he’s disqualified from winning the GOP nomination because of his Mormon faith. is that like the supposed black mark of being Catholic, until Kennedy was elected? clearly I need more caffeine. yeah I should really be awake before posting. Modified to add. The original article was "interesting" and I could understand the point of what the author was trying to say his perceived "bigotry" with in only 1 party. the second does nothing to add to the "discussion" if you want to call it that, except the OP's expression that if someone believes differently than them they are delusional.
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AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 13, 2011 9:06:29 GMT -5
I'd rather have a mormom than the current president who is a black liberation theology zealot.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 10:07:01 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me but I would vote for someone that I thought was good for the country if he worshiped cantaloupes & believed that a nectarine was the son sent to save us. Thinking about it some of the people running have ideas on what to do that are a whole lot stranger than that.
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Post by chiver78 on May 13, 2011 17:07:30 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me but I would vote for someone that I thought was good for the country if he worshiped cantaloupes & believed that a nectarine was the son sent to save us. I probably would too, as long as he didn't expect the rest of us to follow whatever commandments - or whatever the holy laws of his fruity religion (pun intended ) are called - dictated as correct. religion of any kind has no place in government.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 17:54:14 GMT -5
I love Mormons. Used to be one. If a Mormon runs, I would browse around about their standing in the church. If I find them temple worthy that is all I would need to accept their integrity and honesty because I have the advantage of knowing what is required to be temple worthy. At that point I would see what their policies and employment background look like before I made my decision. I would very much love to have a qualified LDS POTUS.
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on May 13, 2011 17:55:20 GMT -5
can I ask why you are not a Mormon anymore? it seems odd that you would vote to elect someone in good standing of a religion that you left.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 17:58:54 GMT -5
I would rather not talk about that on this political board, but I have NO issues with the LDS church. Some of the finest people I have ever known are LDS.
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Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 13, 2011 19:41:05 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me but I would vote for someone that I thought was good for the country if he worshiped cantaloupes & believed that a nectarine was the son sent to save us. I probably would too, as long as he didn't expect the rest of us to follow whatever commandments - or whatever the holy laws of his fruity religion (pun intended ) are called - dictated as correct. religion of any kind has no place in government. I dunno, I already worship cantaloupe a few months out of the year...
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Post by lakhota on May 17, 2011 18:39:06 GMT -5
Huntsman Shocks Right By Refusing To Deny Climate Change Is RealThis has been a hard week for the GOP's presidential prospects. First Newt Gingrich laid into the House Republican budget plan with the force of a DailyKos diarist. Now another big name (likely) presidential candidate is refusing to admit that man-made climate change might be a hoax. "If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we'd listen to them," former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman told Time in a new interview. "I respect science and the professionals behind the science so I tend to think it's better left to the science community - though we can debate what that means for the energy and transportation sectors." The reaction to that little nugget was about as you'd expect. More: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/jon-huntsman-shocks-right-by-not-being-a-climate-change-denier.php?ref=fpb
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Post by lakhota on May 20, 2011 20:36:34 GMT -5
I'm starting to hear some good things about Huntsman. Could he be the one...? However, he does have some baggage... Huntsman Was For Health Care Mandate Before He Was Against It HANCOCK, N.H. –- To hear Jon Huntsman and his advisers tell it, he is a bedrock conservative on health care who took a free market approach as governor of Utah that stands in stark contrast to plans approved by President Barack Obama on the national level and by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. John Weaver, the top political aide to Huntsman in his exploration of a possible presidential bid, told The Huffington Post Friday that the Utah plan is "a clear alternative to Romney and Obama." It's true that -- unlike Obama's and Romney's plans -- the bill Huntsman signed into law in 2008 did not include a mandate requiring health insurance or many rules compelling citizens to participate in the government-facilitated health plan exchange. But it would have looked far different if Huntsman had his way, according to interviews with leading players in Utah politics. They said the former governor actually favored a mandate, but ran into fierce opposition from the conservative state legislature. Huntsman disputed that version of events when asked about it on Friday. "I didn't push mandates with the legislature. You want to get that right," he said while stumping in New Hampshire. More: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/huntsman-was-for-health-care-mandate_n_864838.html
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Post by deziloooooo on May 20, 2011 21:34:23 GMT -5
Jon Huntsman, who’s expected to announce his presidential candidacy before the end of May, apparently failed to receive the memo informing him that he’s disqualified from winning the GOP nomination because of his Mormon faith. In fact, the new contender and his most ardent admirers seem to believe that when it comes to overcoming one of the nation’s most stubborn forms of religious bigotry, two Mormon candidates may be better than one. Mitt Romney, of course, is the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to launch a 2012 drive for the nation’s highest office, reprising his ill-fated race of four years before. During that frustrating campaign, the press focused obsessive attention on the issue of Romney’s faith, forcing the candidate to make a major address on religion and politics at the George H. W. Bush Library at Texas A&M—a well-received speech that only partially defused concerns about the religious commitments of the former Massachusetts governor. According to conventional wisdom, anti-Mormon sentiments (particularly among self-described evangelical Christians) destroyed Romney’s prospects in the Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary, thereby crippling his lavishly financed campaign. If hostility to the LDS church helped scuttle the hopes of a polished figure like Mitt Romney, how could the little-known Jon Huntsman ever hope to overcome that prejudice? After all, his Mormon commitment plays an unmistakable role in his biography, with youthful service as a missionary in Taiwan and adult service as a two-term governor of Utah. His mother’s father, David B. Haight, served as a member of the church’s highest leadership body (The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles). The skeptical view of Hunstman’s prospects suggests that anti-Mormon sentiment hasn’t focused on him yet only because most people outside the state of Utah (where he won election to his second term with an astonishing 78 percent of the vote) have never even heard of him. More: www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-11/jon-huntsman-mitt-romney-2012-presidential-bids-mormon-faith-not-an-issue/?cid=hp:mainpromo2Count me in, his religion, no problem, could care less..but who the hell is he is my question, never heard of him , or if I did, quickly forgotten.
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Post by deziloooooo on May 20, 2011 21:36:15 GMT -5
I'd rather have a mormom than the current president who is a black liberation theology zealot.
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