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highplainsdem

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13. Here's that exact Romney quote from the debate:

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:23 PM

Jan 2012

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1016&sid=19023486

Near the close of CNN's Republican debate in Jacksonville, Fla., an audience member asked the candidates how their religious beliefs would affect their role in the White House.

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Mitt Romney: "The Creator has endowed us with certain unalienable rights" and he would seek to protect those rights.

"The conviction that the founders, when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, were writing a document that was not just temporary and not just for one small locale but really something which described the relationship between God and man -- that's something which I think a president would carry in his heart."

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Salon: Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy (MUST READ - parallels to Dominionism) [View all] highplainsdem Jan 2012 OP

I keep bringing up the Prophet (Mormon church president) justiceischeap Jan 2012 #1

Agreed. highplainsdem Jan 2012 #5

The same argument mackattack Jan 2012 #19

No it is not the same thing jberryhill Feb 2012 #29

That has never been the goal of Catholicism. mackattack Feb 2012 #31

Romney Is A Tool TheMastersNemesis Jan 2012 #2

Insert excerpts of this article into a teabagger chain-letter BumRushDaShow Jan 2012 #3

Mormonism And Religion Not Relevant TheMastersNemesis Jan 2012 #6

I agree except BumRushDaShow Jan 2012 #18

I married into one of the oldest Mormon families in Az. AzDar Jan 2012 #4

What's with the Magic Pants? BlueToTheBone Jan 2012 #7

When adherents are married or 'sealed' in the Temple, they are assigned special undergarments AzDar Jan 2012 #10

eww BlueToTheBone Jan 2012 #14

here's a whole lot more. grantcart Mar 2012 #34

I never heard of that. Actually I don't don't a whole lot about Mormons but the snagglepuss Jan 2012 #27

This excerpt: morningfog Jan 2012 #8

Here's that exact Romney quote from the debate: highplainsdem Jan 2012 #13

Want to really get a little sick? Do some research on the LDS over-representation in Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #9

Yes, my sister who lives in the DC area said that in W's term the place was overrun by Mormans jwirr Jan 2012 #17

Part of the reason for that is their language school jberryhill Feb 2012 #30

yeah, well it's also their willingness to do anything without question or conscience newspeak Feb 2012 #32

More on the White Horse Prophecy, including a comment from Mitt's dad, at Wikipedia: highplainsdem Jan 2012 #11

So where does the prophecy go... Eid Ma Clack Shaw Jan 2012 #12

K&R for an important thread. Thanks for posting. nt riderinthestorm Jan 2012 #15

Thanks! highplainsdem Jan 2012 #28

As someone who enjoys studying various relgions, i have to say Mormonism is 1 of the strangest. white_wolf Jan 2012 #16

I read the Book of Mormon just to see what was in it. Can't argue with what you do not know. I jwirr Jan 2012 #20

Brigham Young University... TeeYiYi Jan 2012 #21

Mormon missionaries will go wild if there is a Mormon president gulliver Jan 2012 #22

mormonism has been in competition for a while with the baptists newspeak Feb 2012 #33

The Southern Baptists once held their convention in Salt Lake KamaAina Mar 2012 #36

Which would make Mormonism competition to to the Born Again "Christians". Dawson Leery Jan 2012 #23

Which would be one reason why he got only 1/5 of the evangelical vote in SC, according to exit polls highplainsdem Jan 2012 #24

But we are not to talk about religion... kentuck Jan 2012 #25

More on Mike Moody, a BYU classmate and Cougar Club member who's now critical of Romney: highplainsdem Jan 2012 #26

Kicking again, since it's relevant to grantcart's thread: highplainsdem Mar 2012 #35