Don't all âgoodâ mormons take their marching orders from salt-lake? It seems to me that the whole rift between âfundamentalâ mormons and salt-lake mormons started when some leader or other received a message from god to stop the practice of plural marriage. Salt-lake trumped the holy ghost.
CE: >It seems to me that the whole rift between >âfundamentalâ mormons and salt-lake mormons >started when some leader or other received a >message from god to stop the practice of plural >marriage. It was a message from Washington, not "God". JB
Turok, Cache had already dealt with that one. http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1706571#post1706571 I was just trying to point out some reasons why non-mormons might be concerned about where the seat of power might reside with a mormon president .
That's been my experience too. Not even a single mention of Romney. I've been surprised so far. I understand where the concern comes from regarding Romney taking orders from church headquarters. If I weren't attending the meeting to see the separation you speak of, I would also assume the opposite to be true. The primaries so far have hinted at the idea that most people really don't have that in the front of their minds though. I've studied the exit/entrance polls against the vote pretty carefully. So far there hasn't been anything which directly suggests that people are voting against a Mormon. Of course with Huckabee in the race it is hard to determine statistically. If Huckabee weren't in the race and Romney still lost Iowa, that would suggest an anti-Mormon vote to a certain degree. But so far Romney's votes are pretty evenly spread across evangelicals, catholics, and non-religious.
CE: >Turok, >Cache had already dealt with that one. Well, not really... >Cache Landing: >The official statement is that the prophet saw >the secular annihilation of the church if polygamy >were to continue. He's right of course, the "official statement" is exactly what he says it is. Problem it, the "official statement" doesn't reflect that actual reality that *while polygamy was still official church doctrine*, it was realized that the feds would never grant statehood to Utah and only *after that* was it changed. JB
=================== Cash Landing; Interesting nickname, Cache is a river in Arkansas also Well Mr Mike Huckabee was in the Texas size church in San Antonio, TX Pastor John Hagee /Global Evangelism TV. Maybe some Mormons don't support Romney for the same reason many Baptists would not support Bill Clinton, a Baptist flip flopper in name anyway. Mr Mike probably has an edge with the 15 million Baptists.....; never heard a preacher tell us who to vote for, but many will mention who they vote for, its a freedom to exercised.
I'm sure there are many Mormons who don't support him, but the vast majority support him in the polls. Every time his campaign managers try to organize groups to do some campaigning they are incredibly limited by the church. The church doesn't allow him to come speak at gatherings or use lists for contacting. As I understand it, one of his few meetings he had with leaders was to simply figure out what the church would actually allow. His campaign management isn't completely made up of Mormons and I'm sure they thought they would have a couple hundred thousand people jumping at the chance to help. The church wants no involvement of any kind in elections. They simply encourage the members to be politically active and to stay knowledgeable on world events.