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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (19528)	7/12/2012 6:13:28 PM
From: LLCF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Oh, so you DO care about Relgion now?? Or is it selective caring... not for congressmen, just president? Well, you seem to have this huge problem cause Obama sat in church of a racist preacher, but although he has spoken often about it and what he thought, it seems "sitting there for 20 years" must affect him... hmmm, but what about being a cradle Mormon?? Being RAISED a certain religion is MUCH MORE influential than listenging to things as an ADULT! Surely you must be aware of that??? So why shouldn't Romney address the things he grew up being taught and believing??? There are lots of interesting factoids I'm sure you actually could discover... here, I googled for you: Here's the church when Mitt was in gradeschool... <<In 1954, Mormon elder Mark E. Peterson discussed blacks and the priesthood in an address to a Convention of Teachers of Religion at the College Level at Brigham Young University. He said: "The reason that one would lose his blessings by marrying a Negro is due to the restriction placed upon them. 'No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood' (Brigham Young). It does not matter if they are one-sixth Negro or one-hundred and sixth, the curse of no Priesthood is the same. If an individual who is entitled to the Priesthood marries a Negro, the Lord has decreed that only spirits who are not eligible for the Priesthood will come to that marriage as children. To intermarry with a Negro is to forfeit a 'Nation of Priesthood holders'...." >> * Romney and his family have been VERY involved in the church, he's not just Mormon. He was apparently OK with this little tidbit of racism: The Mormon church taught that black skinned people were cursed. (lot's of good references on that) It has been 25 years since the LDS church changed its policy of denying priesthood admission to blacks. Jeez, Mitt is middle aged already. * Finally in 1978: the LDS church published and canonized Official Declaration - 2 stating that, via revelation, God had decided that all worthy male members of the LDS Church would be allowed to hold the priesthood. The statement did not repudiate the practice of having denied the priesthood before this time, leaving in place the need for an explanation of why it had been aggressively defended and taught by virtually every prophet since Joseph Smith, and any number of contemporary apostles such as Mark E. Petersen, Bruce R. McConkie, J. Ruben Clark, and countless others. * His family moved to Mexico when polygamy was outlawed in Utah. * Polygamy is still practiced all over Utah...just a nod and a wink from the church.. wonder what Mitt thinks about that? Good question anyway, no? <.......got any examples?....... > Ummm, yea... look up Warren Jeffs. Here's a "theologian", maybe Mitt should address this: huffingtonpost.com <If you can't take the heat............> LOL... YOU said you didn't care about it... but you keep posting about it! So yea... someone is overheating... it "looks like" you care only about ONE guys religion.... so sort of annoying you claim you don't care but cant stop yourself. :)) Have at it though.. I"m fine. :) DAK