No LDS Meetings past Tuesday in Idaho
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:08 pm
Tuesday was the 2012 Republican Presidential caucus day in Idaho. (Those who know my rabid libertarian nature will understand that I am a conscientious objector to participating in such. But that's a non-Mormon story, not appropo here.)
Previously in Idaho, the Republican Presidential 'in-put' has been through a primary vote, not a caucus. Caucusing requires more time of participants than a mere primary vote, and caucusing requires being there at the appointed time, not just whenever during voting day it is convenient to the participant. And of course, Mitt Romney was on the 2008 ballot for Idaho's Republican Presidential primary vote and was on a candidate in Idaho's first Republican Presidential caucus this past Tuesday.
This past Sunday, in Mormon churches in Idaho, a letter was read asking that no church meetings or functions be held on Tuesday night so that members could go to the Republican caucuses. In Idaho, for decades now, the Idaho Democratic Presidential 'in-put' process has been by caucusing at appointed times during the event rather than primary voting for a few minutes at any time during the day. So until 2012, the LDS church has merely encouraged participation by its members in these processes, but not asking that meetings and functions be suspended on those evenings.
This past Tuesday, being the first time the Idaho Republican Presidential 'in-put' process required the additional time of caucusing at a REPUBLICAN primary, featuring one of their own, Mitt, was preceded two days earlier by the first time the Mormon church has asked that all meetings and functions during Idaho caucusing be suspended so that Mormon members could participate.
It's nice that the Mormon church says it is neutral on politics. If that were the case, why no such letters read on the Sundays before the Democratic caucusing in Idaho in presidential election years past?
This overt support for Republican and LDS member Mitt Romney makes one wonder if the Council of 50 has ever really been disbanded.
Here comes the theocracy!
Previously in Idaho, the Republican Presidential 'in-put' has been through a primary vote, not a caucus. Caucusing requires more time of participants than a mere primary vote, and caucusing requires being there at the appointed time, not just whenever during voting day it is convenient to the participant. And of course, Mitt Romney was on the 2008 ballot for Idaho's Republican Presidential primary vote and was on a candidate in Idaho's first Republican Presidential caucus this past Tuesday.
This past Sunday, in Mormon churches in Idaho, a letter was read asking that no church meetings or functions be held on Tuesday night so that members could go to the Republican caucuses. In Idaho, for decades now, the Idaho Democratic Presidential 'in-put' process has been by caucusing at appointed times during the event rather than primary voting for a few minutes at any time during the day. So until 2012, the LDS church has merely encouraged participation by its members in these processes, but not asking that meetings and functions be suspended on those evenings.
This past Tuesday, being the first time the Idaho Republican Presidential 'in-put' process required the additional time of caucusing at a REPUBLICAN primary, featuring one of their own, Mitt, was preceded two days earlier by the first time the Mormon church has asked that all meetings and functions during Idaho caucusing be suspended so that Mormon members could participate.
It's nice that the Mormon church says it is neutral on politics. If that were the case, why no such letters read on the Sundays before the Democratic caucusing in Idaho in presidential election years past?
This overt support for Republican and LDS member Mitt Romney makes one wonder if the Council of 50 has ever really been disbanded.
Here comes the theocracy!