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In reply to the discussion: Salon: Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy (MUST READ - parallels to Dominionism) [View all]highplainsdem
(62,609 posts)26. More on Mike Moody, a BYU classmate and Cougar Club member who's now critical of Romney:
Moody is mentioned briefly in the Salon article.
BusinessWire has a press release about his new book:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120126006137/en/Book-Author-Michael-Moody-Talks-Contradictions-Romney
Moody's bio from his website -- and among other credentials, he served as Nevada coordinator of Republicans for Kerry in 2004:
http://mittsetourpeoplefree.com/authorbio1.htm
Here's a 2004 Washington Post article about Moody:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/issues2004/battleground_nevada.htm
Text of the press release:
January 26, 2012 12:32 PM Eastern Time
In New Book, Author Michael Moody Talks About Contradictions Between Romney, His Politics and Mormonism
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In Mitt, Set Our People Free! A Seventh Generation Mormons Plea for Truth, Author Michael D. Moody Exposes the Contradiction That Romney Embraces Every Day as a Mormon.
Moody, a former BYU classmate and Cougar Club Brother to the 2008 and 2012 presidential contender, discusses the hypocrisies of Mormonism in an open letter to Mitt Romney in the book www.mittsetourpeoplefree.com. He delivers an insiders look at politics, Mitt, and the Mormon Church, contending these hypocrisies relate directly to the manipulative mind of Joseph Smith and to practices like communalism and polygamy that he incorporated into his nineteenth century cult.
Romneys sworn allegiance to the Mormon Churchthe Great American Cultbelies his bald-faced claim that he is a conservative Republican. Nothing could be further from the truth. Romney has taken an LDS temple oath to uphold the Law of Consecration, the Churchs communal, socialist system which has been its organizational structure since the 1830s. Moody reminds Romney and warns Americans that according to LDS prophets Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, this structure is the Order of Heaven from eternity to eternity.
Romney repeatedly calls President Obama a liberal who wants to transform America into a European-style socialist state, yet, despite his business credentials at Bain Capital, Romney has sworn to uphold the tenets of the Mormon system. In recent decades the Church has tried to reinvent itself as a mainstream Christian Church, while Romney, the Churchs political front man, has reinvented himself as a social conservative.
Moody writes, I cant quietly stand aside and watch you march into the American Presidency a man who believes in a phantom ancient culture, believes the fictitious Book of Mormon is the most correct book on earth, and who reveres Joseph Smith as a Christian prophet. Your political success would advance the Mormon cult kingdom, and thats unacceptable. Not on my watch!
A contemporary war rages between those who know the New Mormon History and those members who live in a programmed state of denial. Moody challenges Romney to use his respected position as a multigenerational Mormon and former bishop and stake president to lead a modern exodus out of the Great American Cult.
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Salon: Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy (MUST READ - parallels to Dominionism) [View all]
highplainsdem
Jan 2012
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When adherents are married or 'sealed' in the Temple, they are assigned special undergarments
AzDar
Jan 2012
#10
I never heard of that. Actually I don't don't a whole lot about Mormons but the
snagglepuss
Jan 2012
#27
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
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
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
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
More on Mike Moody, a BYU classmate and Cougar Club member who's now critical of Romney:
highplainsdem
Jan 2012
#26