Posted by
Phil E. on Monday, January 22, 2007 7:49:28 PM
Still catching up, here's more from "The Mitt Romney Show," courtesy of Michael Medved's Monday, January 8, radio program. Mr. Medved was horrified that, according to an
L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll, thirty-seven percent of Americans say, no matter what, they would NOT vote for a Mormon for President. (My prayer is that the new media will increase that even more. Please refer this blog to your friends.)
Mr. Medved automatically (and fallaciously) discards our view as irrational "anti-Mormon" bias. (He just said so again on today's program.) This, despite having acknowledged last time that he has an "anti-Muslim" bias, that he (correctly) would not vote for a Muslim for President. (Proving a man's religion DOES matter.) He's being double minded, and unfortunately, has already made up half his mind. Of course, he's missed his Messiah, so it's not surprising that he can't discern the differences between the Jesus of the Bible and the jesus of Mormonism.
Basically, he's saying there's nothing we 37% of Americans could know about Mormonism and Mormons that would validate our view. That, no matter what, we are wrong. That, as with homosexuals, we must automatically accept them in all positions of government (like, your little boy's school teacher?) because to not would automatically make us mean spirited "homophobes" or "anti-homosexual." Nevermind that Mr. Medved's God is anti-homosexual. (He's anti-Mormon too. God makes it clear that men will not become gods.) Well, at least he correctly acknowledged today that an "anti-Mormon" position does not rise to bigotry, as with racism, since a man can choose his religion, but cannot choose his skin color. I hope someday Mr. Medved will open up his show - and his mind (as Mormons are fond of saying) for disagreement, allowing callers to articulate why they don't want a Mormon for President.
After Mr. Medved quotes this statistic to Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney tries to trivialize the poll, once again trying to invoke the image of the underdog John Kennedy, as I told you he would. But as I said before,
Mitt Romney is no John Kennedy. Catholics don't swear
an oath to their church! Catholicism nowadays doesn't meet the characteristics of a cult.
Worse, Mitt Romney does what Mormon missionaries are taught to do. He tries to "establish commonality of beliefs." He said,
I really think that the American people want to have a person of faith. They don't particularly care what brand of faith - of course, so long as that faith has the values that they share, and fundamentally believes that this is a great nation, that the law of this nation should be upheld, that has the kind of family values and conservative values that have held us in such strength as a nation over the past centuries.
Let's assume he's correct, that all you care about is that a person has "faith." You don't care what brand of faith - maybe the candidate's brand is atheism and he has faith that there is no god. Or maybe they are a Wiccan (witch) and have faith in Mother Earth. (Environmentalist Wacko.) Or maybe they have faith in astrology. Or
the man in the Moon, per Joseph Smith. Doesn't matter. As long as the candidate says his faith has your values - that, for now, as an atheist or Mormon, he's against murdering the unborn; that he agrees with you this is a great nation (What kind of Patriotic jingoism is this?); that the law of this nation should be upheld (even if it conflicts with his secret oath before his god to his church?); that, as long as he has the same family values and conservative values that have held us in such strength as a nation over the past CENTURIES - like
polygamy and
discrimination against Blacks? - that everything will be just fine.
Yeah, right. The 37% are smarter than that. I hope you are too.
Don't vote for Mitt Romney for President. His "brand" of faith isn't your brand. His brand of faith doesn't share your values. His god is not the Creator God acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence, the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible.
The Mormon god cannot create. He can only form ("organize") out of existing matter. Therefore, Mormon Mitt Romney cannot truly say he believes "that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," because his man-god isn't the Creator.
Nor does he believe "all men are created equal," because in Mormonism,
the best spirits are born into Mormon families. They feel they are more equal than you. Maybe that's another thing that bothers 37% of Americans?