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The AP reports that the Rev. Robert Jeffress has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Jeffress, you may remember, caused a commotion last October when he called Mormonism “a cult” and declared that Romney is not a Christian.
Jeffress theological views haven’t changed. Jeffress believes Christians should support Romney in November “in spite of his Mormon faith,” because Obama, though a Christian, embraces non-biblical principles, while Romney embraces biblical principles like the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage. (In fact, even when he made the supposedly controversial comments, he suggested he’d vote for Romney over Obama.)
This puts the liberal media in a bit of a bind, because Jeffress was often the only example they could cite of the Christian right’s alleged anti-Mormon bigotry. And it helps reinforce the argument I make today that most of the anti-Mormonism in this campaign is coming from the left.
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Drek| 4.18.12 @ 11:58AM
You can support Romney and still hold the view that mormonism is a cult.
It's not mutually exclusive you know.
Cults have certain aspects about them that allow them to be identified as cults.
Now I've not gone through the list comparing and contrasting to mormonism, but one can, and one can reach conclusions.
Regardless, we're stuck with Romney.
So first off we have to make sure Romney wins, and we have to make sure that he governs conservatively.
Towards that end, as I mentioned last week here, many House conservatives have already made it clear to the Romney team that his administration isn't going to be allowed to go down like GW's.
That's a very healthy development for us.
It indicates that House conservatives realize, fully realize, that GW was a disaster.
And it indicates that the House is prepared to assume real leadership, whether Romney is happy about that or not.
And as the House conservatives are ready to take on the Romney team, ---- they're also ready to take on their own House "leadership."
Vern Crisler| 4.18.12 @ 1:19PM
I disagree, we should make sure conservatives gain the House and Senate, but help get Romney defeated. He is a walking disaster for the Republican Party, not to mention conservatism.
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 2:10PM
"Way to go!"
B.H.O.
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.18.12 @ 6:05PM
I like the way you think but we don't know the future, do we? Nobody was predicting Reagan would be anything but a footnote but he turned out all right.
I'm not voting for Romney, I'm voting against an administration who fly above the law and nobody says anything because the boss has brown colored skin. Does this make any sense at all? The current crop of crooks refuses to even pass a budget! GET HIM OUT!
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.18.12 @ 6:06PM
By the way, a Senate majority? Not going to happen.
WL| 4.18.12 @ 11:46PM
I disagree. I think the Senate majority is possible. However, I am with you on voting for Romney...
There are points in time to take a stand against poopypants Republicans like Romney.
But this isn't one of them. If Obama gets another term, I fear that the first 4 years will have been NOTHING compared to what is in store for us and what we might find that he has been doing in the 1st term already.
No, if we lose this November, that's IT. I don't see anything stopping the disintigration of the entire System of government...THAT WE HOPE is still somewhat in place.
Please People, consider this. Even if Romney IS a disaster...it will at least be a slower progression than the purposeful destruction on our Republic that Obama has in store for us in a second term, and we will have some more time.
That is what this election is about, and ONLY about...
TIME.
Quartermaster| 4.19.12 @ 6:41AM
The stage is already set for collapse. Romney and/or a conservative congress won't prevent it.
Cliff| 4.19.12 @ 10:18AM
That's mindbogglingly stupid, not only because it's obviously stupid to "help get Romney defeated" in the light of Obama's radicalism, but because it is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to have conservative gains in the House and Senate while losing the Presidential race by any significant margin. It simply doesn't work that way. The down-ballot races are largely contingent at what happens at the top of the ticket. If Romney goes down, particularly if he goes down hard, we'll lose seats. And absolutely nothing will change that.
mzk| 7.25.12 @ 2:54PM
My Gosh - a stopped digital clock IS right once a century.
mzk| 7.25.12 @ 2:55PM
Oh, sorry - mixed up your name with a certain deranged commenter. My apologies.
You are, of course, 100% correct.
Drek| 4.18.12 @ 12:00PM
One more thing, it's as much of a stretch suggesting obama is a real Christian as it is suggesting he really wrote that first book.
WL| 4.18.12 @ 11:51PM
Yep Drek...it's actually amazing to sit back and watch people who don't actually know he's a Muslim, and it is a testament to how far and wide the combination of Group think and endless propaganda has paralyzed the ability of Americans to think for themselves.
Anyone with a brain knows that dude is a Muslim and HATES Christianity.
Drek| 4.19.12 @ 2:21AM
I'm not sure he's a muslim.
It's just that whatever he is, it's not Christian.
Conservative Not Republican| 4.18.12 @ 12:09PM
Haters gonna Hate.
Skippy| 4.18.12 @ 2:11PM
A$$holes gotta spit sh!t.
Quartermaster| 4.19.12 @ 6:42AM
Yep. You prove it.
Clint| 4.18.12 @ 12:22PM
The RINO-CINO Ruling Elites' Flunkie Stooges Are Once Again Attempting To Sell Us Their RINO-CINO Specter-McCain "Lesser Evil" Crap Sandwich, As They Look Down On Us, As "Useful Dupes".
Romney Is McCain Redux.
Crassus| 4.18.12 @ 2:51PM
Where's that brokered convention, Clint?
donald| 4.18.12 @ 4:39PM
No..Romney is far easier to stomach than that horrible JohnMcCain.I just hope he fights harder for it than McCains half assed campaign did.
Michael| 4.18.12 @ 5:18PM
Clint is in love with Obama. He is Axelrod's secret agent assigned to this site.
MikeG| 4.18.12 @ 7:11PM
Clint,
You are stupid. Don't you have a job or a life, you are here all the time posting the same stupid crap.
Are you on welfare or your mommy's basement?
WL| 4.18.12 @ 11:53PM
And the RINO-CINO Dimwits are trying to get us another Obama term...you no brained fool.
That's you Clint.
Derek Leaberry| 4.18.12 @ 1:19PM
Closer to the truth is that Romney supported abortion rights until he first ran for the Republican presidential nomination and he supported the homosexual agenda until he first ran. He still supports the Obama-Mullen policy on homosexuals in the military. In his heart, Romney is a social liberal. Don't look for Romney to work very hard to implement a conservative social agenda.
Drek| 4.18.12 @ 3:46PM
But House Republicans aren't going to give Romney much choice in the matter.
They've already told the Romney team legislation is going to get passed, and they're going to force him either to veto it or sign it.
House Republicans didn't do that with GW, they allowed GW and his team to originate legislation.
A Romney administration is not going to be allowed to become the pathetic joke that was the GW years.
WL| 4.18.12 @ 11:56PM
We are doomed Leaberry...
After 3 and 1/2 years of this current administration...our side is split between wondering whether Romney supports or doesn't support Gay people....and abortion rights...
We are screwed.
It's actually kinda funny, because I agree with the criticisms of him on BOTH of those issues...but if we can't see that those issues are like the color of the car....and we can't get past them to keep the car from blowing up...
Then we deserve what we get.
WL| 4.18.12 @ 11:58PM
So when the 2nd Obama term brings literal HELL for your posterity... those gay and abortion issues are going to be forgone conclusions anyway. So just stay at home and Rot.
C Bowen | 4.18.12 @ 9:26PM
Did the author of this post bother to find out if there was a payoff? Even an implicit payoff like the threat of being deposed, or the threat of government funding being cut off?
Mormons Are Christian | 4.19.12 @ 7:12AM
If Conservative Christians would do their own research, instead of simply accepting the self-serving views of their preachers, they would realize Mormons’ theology is based on New Testament Christianity, not the preachers' Fourth Century Creeds. For example, the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) views on Baptism, Lay Ministry, the Trinity, Theosis, Grace vs. Works, the Divinity of Jesus Christ are closer to Early Christianity than any other denomination. And Mormon teenagers have been judged to “top the charts” in Christian Characteristics by a UNC-Chapel Hill study. Read about it here:
http://MormonsAreChristian.blogspot.com/
According to a 2012 Pew Forum poll of members of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) 98 percent said they believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and 97 percent say their church is a Christian religion. They volunteer 7 times as many hours as does the general population, according to a 2012 University of Pennsylvania study. Mormons have a better understanding of Christianity than any other denomination, according to a 2010 Pew Forum poll:
http://www.pewforum.org/Other-.....urvey.aspx
11 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (including several presidents) were non-Trinitarian Christians. Those who now insist on their narrow Trinitarian and salvation-only- by-grace definition of Christianity for candidates for public office are doing our Republic an injustice.
Mick Lee| 4.19.12 @ 8:24AM
In other words, we have one more Church among many that claim they are closer to the New Testament Christianity of the first century than all the rest. Claims more asserted than proven.
They all state this as if all the early Church was of one mind. The truth is all who claimed they were Christians were theologically divided from the very beginning--including several faith communities Mormons themselves would not recognize as "Christian". Heresies abound and Christian orthodoxy developed in response to one destructive belief after another. The very orthodoxy Mormons disparage was in fact responsible for selecting which books and letters would form the canon of the New Testament Mormons claim so much fidelity to--a canon which took several hundred years to finalize. A canon which came after the creeds and not before. An orthodoxy by which the hundreds of books and letters in circulation were measured as faithful to the Gospel.
mzk| 7.25.12 @ 2:52PM
After all, if a Jew with biblical principles ran he's also not a Christian.