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1.4.08 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Carrie Sheffield's Evangelicals Against Mitt:

Thanks to Carrie Sheffield for the excellent article about Mitt and the potential growth of the LDS church.
-- Jay Price

I am a Catholic who has been pleased to serve and work with people of every religious persuasion, including Mormons and Muslims.

The dozens of Mormons I have called friends have several character traits in common. They don't drink, they are fine husbands and wives, instill values of fidelity, honesty, service, and manners in their children. Then they reinforce those values by living them.

A Clinton Protestant or a Mormon? Let's see, lies versus truth; adultery versus fidelity; self aggrandizement versus service?

I'll take one Mormon, please.
-- Jay Molyneaux
Denver, North Carolina

We should look at Morality, not theology!

God knows, I won't be backing Mitt Romney, but not because of his LDS membership. His John Kerry like shifting-of-positions does not instill much faith in character; much more an opportunist than a real guy. He's not to be trusted.

And Mike Huckabee and his supporters are even worse than nauseating -- those quotes from Erickson and Keller illustrate how totally warped the evangelicals are.

All this "my God is better than your God" nonsense can cause one to completely turn off any/all GOP musings. And, no, no way I'll vote for any of those clowns on the Democrat side -- never!

Yet, even sharing breathing space with the likes of those sanctimonious evangelicals like Mr. Keller is most repugnant. I detest people like him, Ms. Erickson, James Dobson, and all those preachers with the audacity to tell their flocks how to vote. Their tax deductions should be yanked, as should Al Sharpton's, Jesse Jackson's and those on the left. Yesterday!

As an independent Independent and Deist, I shake my head in wonderment that such garbage continues to persist -- and that people actually listen to/follow these appalling creatures. I may sit this one out; the lesser of evils, or the evil of lessers sucks.
-- Jack Frost

In my opinion, Ms. Sheffield's conclusion would not be the case at all. She thinks evangelicals might be worried that Mitt Romney in the White House would demonstrate that "Mormons don't have horns." She describes the "common worry among evangelicals" as that Mitt's presidency "would give legitimacy to a religion they believe is a cult."

However, this conflates two different issues. Mormons certainly don't have horns if this is meant in a personal sense. Most Mormons I know are nice and unthreatening, and even conservative. There's nothing about them at all to suggest they are a robotic, brainwashed cult-like fans of Hannah Montana. I would even vote for Mitt over Mike, heeding the sage advice, albeit twisted up a bit, that it's better to be governed by a foolish Turk than a foolish Christian.

The complaints of the evangelicals have more to do with theological issues, and the term "cult"-probably over the top to use the term nowadays-has to do with truth in advertising. Evangelicals think Mormonism is a religion that likes to advertise itself as Christian while covering up its departures from historic Christianity.

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