Would you vote for a Mormon...

[Rhamiel]

AW

Whatever happened to an honest to goodness Protestant Christian running for President anyway? Talk about pulling the "Evangelical" votes...

yeah this is what I thought too
I like Santorum a lot, lol not just because he is a Catholic
but I worry if a lot of the Baptists would vote for him or if they would just stay home because he is Catholic
I would not vote for a Mormon
I do not like Obama at all but I would have to stay home if it was between him and Romney

 

[Faith.Man]

 

[Anoetos]

AW
yeah this is what I thought too
I like Santorum a lot, lol not just because he is a Catholic
but I worry if a lot of the Baptists would vote for him or if they would just stay home because he is Catholic
I would not vote for a Mormon
I do not like Obama at all but I would have to stay home if it was between him and Romney

Reports are that "Conservative Evangelicals" are pretty solidly behind Santorum. At least the ones I have seen.

 

[HiredGoon]

Lets see...

Santorum - Is Catholic
Romney - Is Mormon
Gingrich - A terrific adulterer who used the church for his own gain.

I am basically a fundamentalist Pentecostal who would go for Santorum if I had to pick from the three.

You forgot Paul who is Baptist.

Not that it matters at all, to what church a candidate does or does not belong.

 

[HiredGoon]

Whatever happened to an honest to goodness Protestant Christian running for President anyway?

He's right here:

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

He's right here:

Ah, I didn't know. It's interesting how younger people seem to be more in support of Paul, at least if you look behind him when he does a campaign speech.

 

[JustAsIam77]

AW
yeah this is what I thought too
I like Santorum a lot, lol not just because he is a Catholic
but I worry if a lot of the Baptists would vote for him or if they would just stay home because he is Catholic
I would not vote for a Mormon
I do not like Obama at all but I would have to stay home if it was between him and Romney

I've heard this from others as well, that they would stay home on election day and give the election to Obama rather than vote for a Mormon and I honestly don't understand it.

For me personally as a Calvinist if there was a candidate who espoused the Doctrines of Grace and mentioned they agreed with the Westminster Confession of Faith at every opportunity but did not have the skills and experience necessary to be the president of the greatest country in the world I couldn't vote for them as POTUS.

What am I missing?

 

[General Mung Beans]

Ah, I didn't know. It's interesting how younger people seem to be more in support of Paul, at least if you look behind him when he does a campaign speech.

I think that's because he is the only major candidate currently against the status quo. I've read that the majority of young people want Medicare and Social Security reform.

 

[Rescued One]

Well. The Trinity and the Person of Christ are kind of a big deal. I can admit that he's closer to me and you'd be hard pressed to find a more committed opponent to Roman heterodoxy than me.

But that's the difference, Catholicism is heterodox, sometimes deeply so; Mormonism isn't even Christianity.

Some people know what you are saying.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

I think that's because he is the only major candidate currently against the status quo. I've read that the majority of young people want Medicare and Social Security reform.

Medicare and Social Security...I wonder what the differences are in views among younger people and older people? It's one thing to not need medicare or social security and another to need them. I'd say they need reform, even from my personal experience. I'm only 36, but I suffered a heart attack Nov 29 2011. Between my wife and me, she's the only one with a job, and she works at McDonald's part time not making much more than minimum wage. We qualify for food stamps, and we had 100% medical coverage ($20 co-pay per visit, per day) through the local hospital (still had a couple of bills, because of outsources, but thankful for the coverage) not to be confused with health insurance. I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2010, and I've been blind in my left eye for most of my life, and with the heart attack, one of the reasons for it, on top of other things, I have cardiovascular disease. I went from taking 1 medication for diabetes, to taking around 8...added a blood thinner (to maintain the stint), cholesterol, high blood pressure, another one for blood sugar, an aspirin, and so on. A couple of the medications are so expensive, the combination of them would literally eat nearly all of one of my wife's checks per month. I applied for medicare, and they turned me down because I'm not currently on disability... I am in the process of getting on disability because I cannot do what I used to. However it will most likely take a year or more to get on disability (which will allow me to get on medicare), assuming I do, which I should (at least according to the nurses at cardio rehab). But the process and the waiting time is ridiculous. Quite frankly, if it were not for my parents (temporary I hope) help, we couldn't afford to buy my meds. I think they (government) hope I will die before I can get help.

 

[heymikey80]

I've a friend who's undergone a number of episodes and has twice qualified for Social Security. Interestingly I recently commented about its horrific orgy of regulation on politics forum.

I don't get it either. But then, my family encountered its amazing lack of support back when I was a small child. We were under the poverty line. No help then.

So I'm like them -- every major purchase is a massive stress, stockpiling all this paper and hoping it doesn't devalue to nothingness before we get to retirement.

 

[JustAsIam77]

Some people know what you are saying.

So what are you saying? Let's ban all Mormons from public office because they don't believe in the Trinity? Sheesh, this is really starting to get under my skin. I wouldn't EVER vote for a Muslim because I know what their theology is, the destruction of all non believers of their faith, but a Mormon? Come on.

 

[Rescued One]

So what are you saying? Let's ban all Mormons from public office because they don't believe in the Trinity? Sheesh, this is really starting to get under my skin. I wouldn't EVER vote for a Muslim because I know what their theology is, the destruction of all non believers of their faith, but a Mormon? Come on.

Mormonism is a false religion. Besides rejecting the Trinity they reject other true doctrines of the Christian faith.

This is what the LDS teach about the Bible:
24 And the angel of the Lord said unto me: Thou hast beheld that the book proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew; and when it proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew it contained the fulness of the gospel of the Lord, of whom the twelve apostles bear record; and they bear record according to the truth which is in the Lamb of God.

25 Wherefore, these things go forth from the Jews in purity unto the Gentiles, according to the truth which is in God.

26 And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church, which is most abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.

27 And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men.

28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.

29 And after these plain and precious things were taken away it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles; and after it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles, yea, even across the many waters which thou hast seen with the Gentiles which have gone forth out of captivity, thou seest—because of the many plain and precious things which have been taken out of the book[Bible], which were plain unto the understanding of the children of men, according to the plainness which is in the Lamb of God—because of these things which are taken away out of the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do stumble, yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.
Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 13: 24-29


The truths of the Atonement remain hidden from a society that has been cleverly persuaded that the [LDS]Church knows least—when in fact it knows most—about Jesus Christ’s role as our Savior. The adversary has been engaged in one of history’s greatest cover-ups.
Bruce C. Hafen, “The Restored Doctrine of the Atonement,” Ensign, Dec 1993, 7

LDS Opinion of other churches:
To say that Satan sits in the place of God in Christianity after the time of the Apostles is not to say that all that is in it is satanic. Indeed, Latter-day Saints should rejoice—as the heavens undoubtedly do—at the great works of righteousness and faith, and the leavening influence on the world, of those whose lives are touched in any degree by Him whose gospel the Saints enjoy in its fulness. Still, “the power of God unto salvation” (Rom. 1:16) is absent from all but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which the Lord himself has proclaimed to be “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (D&C 1:30). Satan’s goal of hindering many of God’s children from returning to their Father’s glory is thus realized. How appropriate, therefore, is Paul’s description of him sitting in the place of God in the church of the apostasía.
Kent P. Jackson, Early Signs of the Apostasy, Ensign, Dec 1984

Early Signs of the Apostasy - Ensign Dec. 1984 - ensign

Joseph Smith taught:
“Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God. I say that is a strange God anyhow—three in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization anyhow. All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God—he would be a giant or a monster.”
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 372; History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476)


I'm sorry that I can't give you a more lengthy explanataion, but I believe that endorsing a Mormon as leader of this country would be displeasing to God.

 

[JustAsIam77]

I'm well aware of what the LDS teach but I'm not voting for the pastor of my church.

 

[Osage Bluestem]

I'm not voting. The only way out of the mess we're in now is to have a revolution, make socialism illegal, and deport all of the liberals to Cuba, North Korea, China, Vietnam, or Canada where they're welcome to be as evil and lazy as they can possibly be.

 

[JustAsIam77]

ABO..anyone but Obama. If Obama is re-elected for another four years, I don't even want to think about the repercussions.

 

[Anoetos]

There is very little political difference between Obama and Romney.

If anything, Obama is more honest; he is pretty much what he says he is.

Romney pretends to be whatever his current audience wants him to be.

 

[JustAsIam77]

There is very little political difference between Obama and Romney.

If anything, Obama is more honest; he is pretty much what he says he is.

Romney pretends to be whatever his current audience wants him to be.

Obama voted as a state senator in Illinois in favor of infanticide. Obama is a Saul Alinsky radical in sheeps clothing. Have you listened to anything Romney has said? This bullcrap about Romney not being any different from Obama is a crock.

 

[Rescued One]

Will God allow Obama to win again?

 

[Anoetos]

Obama voted as a state senator in Illinois in favor of infanticide. Obama is a Saul Alinsky radical in sheeps clothing. Have you listened to anything Romney has said? This bullcrap about Romney not being any different from Obama is a crock.

Have you seen Romney's record on abortion? He never had to address PBA, but his record on early pregnancy terminations can only led one to conclude that he'd weasel out of a ban if he could.