From Catholic to Mormon to Catholic to Protestant to Catholic: Marco Rubio's new...

...memoir details his head-spinning return to the Church

Whether Mormon, Catholic or Protestant, faith a major theme in Rubio memoir


Over the course of his life, Marco Rubio has prayed in Mormon sanctuaries, Catholic cathedrals and Protestant worship centers. But through each denominational transition, faith has remained a driving force through much of the young Florida senator's life.

Continued-
From Catholic to Mormon to Catholic to Protestant to Catholic: Marco Rubio's new memoir details his head-spinning return to the Church...

__________________
Your socks stink.


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

~Charles Dickens

Wow, Rubio's a Mormo-Catho-Bapti-lic.

Probably nixes his chances at Veep candidacy. Putting someone who attended the Mormon Church as a child with Romney would be almost like double jeopardy.

And it isn't thought he'd help get the Hispanic vote that much....

A Cuban-American, born in the USA, may not be as similar to first generation Mexican and Central Americans as Republicans might hope.

I have no idea what Rubio's doctrinal beliefs are--if he goes to one church one week and another the next I guess he looks at them as interchangeable.

__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Huh? Just because he's prayed in Mormon sanctuaries, Catholic cathedrals, and Baptist worship centers? It's not like a person's Faith is defined by where a person prays.

Huh? again. The U.S. doesn't have a religious litmus test for election to office. Experience counts not religion. Oh all right, Rubio has about as much experience as Obama did when Obama ran for president, but the difference is that (if Rubio is chosen), he'll be running as the V.P. candidate.

Well, actually, Rubio was working on a *permanent* solution to the children of parents who have decided to break the immigration laws of the U.S. Obama knew that, decided to "poison the well" by taking a political advantage by only offering a temporary solution, so Rubio seems to have *real* concerns for the Hispanic community (even the legal Hispanic immigrants and he actually notes their problems that this will cause) and the community knows it.

__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"There is one true Church, the really ancient Church into which are enrolled those who are righteous according to God's ordinance. In essence, in idea, in origin, in preeminence we say that the ancient Catholic Church is the only Church." - Clement of Alexandria, Stromata
--------------------------------------------------------------

" Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live." - Deuteronomy 30:19

Team Sarah!--A diverse coalition of women dedicated to values that Sarah Palin stands for

Life Trumps the Economy EVERY TIME!

He did not occasionally go to a Mormon Church. His parents were apparently baptized Catholics who had him baptized but who raised him as a Mormon until he was 13, when he said he would rather be Catholic...

For a little while at least, until he got married.

Since attending a Catholic Church would be the popular move with his core constituency, who knows what he believes?

But I do think that there is a big difference between being raised as a Mormon in your formative years and "visiting a Mormon Church."

His Mormon ties might have been a key to his success in life--they really do take care of their own. It reminds me of the "cousins clubs" the Jewish community had in NY. Both work as nepotism networks.

Rubio's plan was far inferior to the President's plan in the eyes of the Hispanic community.

As a Cuban-American, I don't think he can really empathize with the plight of Mexican Americans. Cuban Americans had instant "refugee" status because they were fleeing Communism. Like the Bosnians in the 1990's, they were granted instant asylum.

And so every Cuban American had a free pass. They were even given housing on unused military bases until they got established or sponsored.

And so he can "sympathize" with the plight of Mexican Americans (as I do)--and who knows? He might.

But he can't empathize. Cuban Americans were never undocumented, unwanted, racially profiled and marked for deportation in places like Arizona....

His situation was different.

__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Latinos aren't a solid block.

And most mexican-americans don't think Cuban's have a legit claim to the title "Latino" anyway.

And Rubio has go more than one skeleton in his closet.

The big one just why was his grandfather deported from the US anyway ?

And just how did he stay in the US until 1967 under a deportation order ?