Black Clergy Group to Demand Romney Renounce Mormonism

[Lincoln Republican]

Complete ignorance of the Mormon faith runs rampant amongst the closed minded, including amongst closed minded preachers.

[Lincoln Republican]

Perhaps Santorum should renounce Catholicism because the Catholics tortured and burned at the stake those they considered to be "heretics" centuries ago.

[Lincoln Republican]

As a liberal I have no problem with Mormonism even if it seems cranky and heretical to me. I have a problem with religion in politics when people shamelessly exploit it in an 'Believe it or burn' mode on politics.

Anyone who votes for President Obama because Mitt Romney is a Mormon or because Rick Santorum is a Catholic votes for the President for the wrong reasons. We need to ask what is good for America instead of what is comfortable for our view of the world. Now if someone votes for President Obama because either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum offers no viable solutions, then one has a valid cause for voting for the President.

Of course I would never vote for a $cientologist (a fundamentally dishonest world-view), let alone a Satanist.

So if a Mormon were a nominee and you believed they were the best person and the most qualified to be President, you would vote for them even though you believed their faith to be cranky and heretical?

[Lincoln Republican]

The cause is never just and right when those throwing the stones are doing so as a result of gross misunderstanding and complete ignorance. 

[Lincoln Republican]

The cause is never just and right when those throwing the stones are doing so as a result of gross misunderstanding and complete ignorance. 

You do realize that an election is all about politics and rarely about justice, don't you?

And if you don't realize that, why haven't you been full of outrage over the deceptive attack ads that Restore Mitt's America's Future puts out?

It is never, ever appropriate for a Christian to demand that another Christian renounce his faith.  Mormons have not made demands that others renounce their faith.

Let me make this clear.  Mitt Romney is not going to renounce his faith, now not, not ever, just because some ill informed, radical evangelical preacher makes some stupid, ridiculous demand.

Forget it. 

The best thing Romney can do is to completely ignore this postulating, presumptuous, pompous preacher.

[Lincoln Republican]

Why haven't you been full of outrage over the deceptive attack ads that Restore Mitt's Future puts out?

Nobody in this campaign has been a bigger victim of deceptive attack ads and deceptive, false, and vicious attacks and commentary than Mitt Romney, and no faith has been so viciously attacked as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints of which Romney is a member.  

Take a look at the vicious diatribes in this thread for example.  This thread has deteriorated into nothing more than ignorance, intolerance, and Mormon bashing.

Let them play their little game.  Ultimately, it will get them nowhere, let me assure you.