Attack on Mitt Romney's Mormon faith heightens Republican rivalry

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/09/mitt-romney-mormon-republican
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Religion was always going to play a part in the Republican nominations for a presidential candidate to take on Barack Obama for the White House in November next year. But Jeffress has pushed the issue to the fore earlier than expected, with the first of the Republican nomination caucuses not scheduled until January 3 in Iowa.

The main beneficiary of the row could be Perry, who once said that anyone who does not believe in Jesus will go to hell. He and Jeffress organised a day of prayer in Houston, Texas, in August that attracted about 30,000 people.

Christian evangelicals make up an estimated 40% to 60% of Republicans likely to vote in states such as Iowa and South Carolina, which is scheduled to hold its primary on 21 January. A Washington Post poll in June found that 21% of Republican-leaning voters nationwide would be less likely to vote for a Mormon.

In the 2008 Republican presidential race, the then candidate Mike Huckabee played the religion card, saying "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" He went on to beat Romney in Iowa, in spite of a huge investment of money and resources by Romney in the state.
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Come on ReTHUGS eat one another in public. Personally I think all religions are cults. :rofl:

[brewens]

1. Christians should know better than anyone that a cult, having

survived for sufficient time and grown too large to no longer really be controlled by one man, is no longer a cult. It's what we call a mainstream religion. I prefer to call them a superstition but that's just me.

[bluestateguy]

2. Liberal secularists and liberal Christians are not big Mormon fans either

The LDS church has a history of racism, subjugation of women (that continues to this day), homophobia (they invaded CA with Yes on 8 crap), and baptism of the dead, including Barack Obama's mother and Holocaust victims.

[kestrel91316]

4. They also have a history of murder back in the day, lol. An ancestor of mine

did a lot of the doing.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Only a CRAZY PERSON would believe that unicorns ride leprechauns!!!

Everyone knows it's the other way around. Sheesh.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. The GOP keeps stirring the kettle.

A thing of beauty if ever there was one.