WASHINGTON (AFP) – US voters are uncomfortable with the idea of a president who is a Mormon, even as Massachusetts ex-governor Mitt Romney, a member of that church, leads the pack of Republican White House hopefuls, a poll released Wednesday found.
According to the Quinnipiac poll, only 45 percent of registered voters had a favorable view of Mormonism, while 32 percent had an unfavorable view. Only atheists and Muslims had less support in the survey.
I suspect that if not for Proposition 8 mega-support from the LDS Church, Romney would be doing better in the polls. Oh yeah, also if Yahoo News wasn't so anti-mormon. Poll takers should run their results past the Deseret News first to make it more faith promoting.
Moksha, Your brownish font color is getting dangerously close to that used by the mod squad!
So, why are Muslims lumped in with atheists as the people least likely to support a Mormon?
One of my Muslim friends often expressed how he felt Islam was similar to Mormonism. This came from things like: fasting, praying daily, modesty, supporting the religion financially, Mecca/Temple square, etc..
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Only 45% after all the PR campaigns? I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are for president.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
sock puppet wrote:What, if any, background influences on the thinking of a candidate do you care about?
Here is my test endorsed by interviewer Space Ghost:
1. Are you a leprechaun?
Once that is cleared up I'm satisfied.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
DarkHelmet wrote:Only 45% after all the PR campaigns? I don't care what a person's religious beliefs are for president.
What, if any, background influences on the thinking of a candidate do you care about?
I don't really care. Sarah Palin has nutty religious views, but that's not why I will never vote for her. I will never vote for her because she is dumb. She is also clueless because she doesn't know she's dumb.
Americans are a diverse group, with a variety of background influences in our lives. We have had presidents who personally are scum bags, like Bill Clinton, who turn out to be effective Presidents. Reagan was outwardly religious, but effective as President. Carter was a very decent human being, filled with integrity, but a horrible President. I wish selecting the President was a scientific process, but we never know who is up for the job until they are in it. I just listen to what a candidate says and try to get a feel for how effective that person would be at leading the country, and look at their past record and see what their previous experience as a leader was like. Where they stand on the issues doesn't matter too much to me because we don't necessarily know what the issues will be for the next 4 years. During the 2000 debates, nobody asked Bush or Gore how they would react to a terrorist attack on our country. I just want a strong leader.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
zeezrom wrote:... Islam was similar to Mormonism. This came from things like: fasting, praying daily, modesty, supporting the religion financially, Mecca/Temple square, etc..
And the uneducated "prophet" as the founder.
This attribute only makes me these ..ehm.. groups (sects, denominations, directions, drifts, schools, sets, streams, tendencies, tenors, trend-lines, trends, wings Iamfightingwithforeignlanguage) unacceptable. In general.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
I don't care anybody of US presidents. (And church presidents in many level.)
I don't care any of LDS's presidents. Or any overlapping.
I know many ward's presidenst, of Hungary. OK, not many, only three or four of them. I am desperate. Working society(es) should produce any way out of blind alleies (alleys? alleis? alleies? allllxxxx?).
It is my poll.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei