SALT LAKE CITY — The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement Tuesday:
We congratulate President Obama on winning a second term as President of the United States.
After a long campaign, this is now a time for Americans to come together. It is a long tradition among Latter-day Saints to pray for our national leaders in our personal prayers and in our congregations. We invite Americans everywhere, whatever their political persuasion, to pray for the President, for his administration and the new Congress as they lead us through difficult and turbulent times. May our national leaders reflect the best in wisdom and judgment as they fulfill the great trust afforded to them by the American people.
We also commend Governor Romney for engaging at the highest level of our democratic process which, by its nature, demands so much of those who offer themselves for public service. We wish him and his family every success in their future endeavors.
I'd like to know what they really think of the results. I have to imagine that some of them are quietly breathing a sigh of relief. Now the media focus will pass. No more news articles and reports on Mormonism. At the same time I'm sure some really wanted Romey to win. No doubt that some considered it the path to fulfilling the white horse prophecy.
We congratulate President Obama on winning a second term as President of the United States ...
.. and ask him to watch for four more years the constitution and the government, hanging by a brittle thread - and to watch the watchmen themselves.
- 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
bcspace wrote:I pray for them all the time. Of course what that means is different depending on who's in office.......
So says our resident Taliban Mormon.
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)
Actually, I think this is the best result for the church.
It's profile was raised, it became a little more acceptable.
But now it gets to fall back and regroup.
I don't think 4 more years of scrutiny would have been in its best interest.
"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.
I think it is good that President News Room issued the congratulatory for the FP/12. As strongly as the pro-Mitt sentiment, anti-Obama sentiment has been in my neck of Zion, I have feared for how Obama's win would cause some of the more fringe LDS elements to become more isolated, like building encampment communities a la the polygamists in Colorado City.