While LDS values and morals drew the Rubios to the faith, Rubio says, it was the religion’s ban on tobacco, alcohol and coffee that made staying tough.
"Some of the church’s rules were difficult for my parents, especially my father, to abide by," Rubio says, adding that his dad, who never joined the LDS Church, had smoked since age 13 and worked as a bartender. Rubio says he chided his father for slinging booze, but also noted that Cuban coffee was a staple that neither parent would give up.
According to news sources, Rubio isn't even on the short list of VP, despite how he might help with the Hispanic vote. I wonder if the "exLDS" part of his family resume is an issue with Romney.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
I don't know how he was able to function without the gospel in his life. How did he resist the urge to rape, murder, and commit all manner of sin? How was he able to find any kind of happiness in his life as an exmormon? How was he able to become a US Senator without the Mormon Holy Ghost as a guide?
"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
bcspace wrote:It would be interesting though to have a Mormon and and ex Mormon as P and VP.
It would be very interesting.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
DarkHelmet wrote:I don't know how he was able to function without the gospel in his life. How did he resist the urge to rape, murder, and commit all manner of sin? How was he able to find any kind of happiness in his life as an exmormon? How was he able to become a US Senator without the Mormon Holy Ghost as a guide?
Yep, he is just the shell of the man he could have been.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits