Anti-Mormon Papers Circulating in South Carolina (Jesus Christ, ritual, Latter-Day Saints, moral)

[The Mad Hatter 2002]

Originally Posted by jonny

Less than a week before the Republican presidential primary debate in Columbia, a wave of anti-Mormon literature has hit select South Carilina mailboxes. The literature does not mention former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by name, but is an indirect attack on him. Romney, considered by many to be one of the three GOP front-runners despite polling low, is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The eight-page diatribe is titled "Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?" It calls Mormon texts "hoaxes" and labels church founder Joseph Smith a "gold digger turned prophet."

I don't see what the problem is with doing this? It is just making people aware of a polictical figures religious back ground. I would want to know the religion of any public official that was going to effect me. I personally think it is a good idea to educate those who might not know much about different religions. If Romney wasn't afraid what people would think about him being part of the LDS then what is the problem?

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by The Mad Hatter 2002

I don't see what the problem is with doing this? It is just making people aware of a polictical figures religious back ground. I would want to know the religion of any public official that was going to effect me. I personally think it is a good idea to educate those who might not know much about different religions. If Romney wasn't afraid what people would think about him being part of the LDS then what is the problem?

So maybe you could explain how providing people with inaccurate information is educating them.

[The Mad Hatter 2002]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

So maybe you could explain how providing people with inaccurate information is educating them.

I'm sorry, I was under the impression that it told what the mormons believed in. That alone would be damaging to his political career though, so I can see the reason for the anger. If it was inaccurate information then yes that would be wrong to do to anyone.

[jonny]

Educating people on what Mormons believe wouldn't be damaging to anyone's political career. There is nothing about our religion that we are trying to hide. What people need to understand is the difference between the core doctrines of the LDS Church and opinions expressed by church members. They are not one and the same. I think this article in the church newsroom has some pretty good advice: http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/ind...004e94610aRCRD

[lilithu]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Episcopalian The first seven presidents listed below were all from Virginia. Until 1786, the Episcopal Church was the "state church" of Virginia. See above for more detail on each.

• George Washington (also Deist)
• Thomas Jefferson (also Deist)
• James Madison (also Deist)
• James Monroe (also classified as Deist by some scholars)
• William Henry Harrison (theology unknown)
• John Tyler (theology unknown)
• Zachary Taylor
• Franklin Pierce
• Chester A. Arthur
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Gerald Ford
• George H. W. Bush

Deist

• George Washington (also Episcopalian)
• Thomas Jefferson (also Episcopalian)
• James Madison (also Episcopalian)
• John Tyler[citation needed] (also Episcopalian)
• Abraham Lincoln (disputed)

Unitarian Unitarian Universalism is the religion generally associated today with those whose ideology developed from deism.

• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Millard Fillmore
• William Howard Taft

Jefferson was one of us!! (tho some of uus don't want him)

"The population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented with being a Unitarian by myself." - TJ

When he was in Philadelphia, he attended the Unitarian church of the minister Joseph Priestly.

"I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian." - TJ (yeah, boy was he wrong on that one)

And if you really want to get into it, there's this article that starts with the line: "Thomas Jefferson's great grandson famously declared that Jefferson was a conservative Unitarian."
http://www.monticello.org/streaming/.../religion.html

[Mustard Seed]

Originally Posted by The Mad Hatter 2002

That alone would be damaging to his political career though, so I can see the reason for the anger.

I'm sorry, what part of "Anti-Mormon" didn't you get?

The quote above just negates that "I'm sorry" part of your post.....but I have a feeling you already knew that.

[cardero]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Oh, what the heck. I'm going to post this anyway, and risk the wrath of my husband. From Wiki:

List of Presidential religious affiliations (by religion)

Baptist

• Warren Harding
• Harry Truman
• Jimmy Carter (raised Southern Baptist) (later left the denomination)
• Bill Clinton (Southern Baptist)

Catholic

• John F. Kennedy

Congregationalist

• Calvin Coolidge

Disciples of Christ

• James Garfield
• Lyndon Johnson
• Ronald Reagan

Dutch Reformed

• Martin Van Buren
• Theodore Roosevelt

Episcopalian The first seven presidents listed below were all from Virginia. Until 1786, the Episcopal Church was the "state church" of Virginia. See above for more detail on each.

• George Washington (also Deist)
• Thomas Jefferson (also Deist)
• James Madison (also Deist)
• James Monroe (also classified as Deist by some scholars)
• William Henry Harrison (theology unknown)
• John Tyler (theology unknown)
• Zachary Taylor
• Franklin Pierce
• Chester A. Arthur
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Gerald Ford
• George H. W. Bush

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Dwight D. Eisenhower (later Presbyterian)

Methodist

• James Polk (originally Presbyterian)
• Ulysses Grant (allegedly; his theology is unknown)
• William McKinley
• George W. Bush (originally Episcopalian)

Presbyterian

• Andrew Jackson
• James Polk (later Methodist)
• James Buchanan
• Grover Cleveland
• Benjamin Harrison
• Woodrow Wilson
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (originally Jehovah's Witnesses)

Quaker

• Herbert Hoover
• Richard Nixon

No denominational affiliation

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses Grant
• Rutherford Hayes

Deist

• George Washington (also Episcopalian)
• Thomas Jefferson (also Episcopalian)
• James Madison (also Episcopalian)
• John Tyler[citation needed] (also Episcopalian)
• Abraham Lincoln (disputed)

Unitarian Unitarian Universalism is the religion generally associated today with those whose ideology developed from deism.

• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Millard Fillmore
• William Howard Taft

Amazing, not a Patrickist among them.

[cardero]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Well, I wasn't going to make more of an issue of it than has already been made, but since you asked...

Bible Truth has refused to debate with me. It goes against his conscience to debate with me, since I am an LDS woman and my husband refused to give me permission to converse with an Evangelical man.

Have you explained to both of these people that you are now an RF Ambassador (Award designated to members who show great knowledge of their religion. Issue reason-The award has been given to you by the award committee and is well deserved.) and that there are duties and obligations that you must exercise and uphold with this honor?