How Mormon is Mitt Anyway?

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_moksha
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How Mormon is Mitt Anyway?

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From Mormon columnist Joanna Brooks:

Mitt is so Mormon he’d call 19-year-old boys to serve as U.S. ambassadors.

Mitt is so Mormon his Israel policy will be centered on Jackson County, Mo.

Mitt is so Mormon he’ll make the income tax a flat 10 percent and collect fast offerings to fund Medicaid.

Mitt is so Mormon he’ll ask the Senate to “sustain” his appointees by manifesting with an upraised hand.

Mitt is so Mormon he’s organizing his precinct walkers in pairs to knock doors with a very special message.

Mitt is so Mormon he’d make the Book of Mormon required reading at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Mitt is so Mormon, he will actually hang the Constitution up by a thread, just so he can save it.

Mitt Romney is so Mormon that he’s afraid to join the tea party because of Doctrine & Covenants 89 [the section forbidding members from "hot drinks," interpreted as tea and coffee].

Mitt is so Mormon he’d ask the elders quorum to move him into the White House.

Mitt is so Mormon he won’t allow advisers wearing nonwhite dress shirts to participate in Cabinet meetings.

Mitt is so Mormon he’d ask the chief justice to use a quad at his inauguration.

Mitt is so Mormon, he will add the phrases “every fiber of my being” and “beyond a shadow of a doubt” to the presidential oath of office.


Now that's Mormon.

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_Hasa Diga Eebowai
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_Quasimodo
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Re: How Mormon is Mitt Anyway?

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Hasa Diga Eebowai wrote:The answer doesn't sound very Mormon to me, but lying to avoid a tough question? Yep about as Mormon as they come.

Thanks,

Hasa Diga Eebowai


A non-response response? A typical politician's response, but in this case a Mormon politician's response. Milk before meat.
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Re: How Mormon is Mitt Anyway?

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Hasa Diga Eebowai wrote:When asked:

"'Should God speak to you, and ask you to do something that might be in conflict with your duties as president, or should He speak to your prophet who would speak to you, how would you make that decision, how would you handle that?" by reporter Natalie Jacobsen.

Mitt Romney responded:

"Well, I don't recall God speaking to me. I, I don't recall God speaking to anyone since, uh, Moses and the [burning] bush, or perhaps some others, but, but I don't have that frequent of communication."


I'd be surprised to find that there's no record of Mitt saying something to the contrary during his time in the Stake Presidency of the Boston Massachusetts Stake in the early 90s.
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