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highplainsdem

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26. More on Mike Moody, a BYU classmate and Cougar Club member who's now critical of Romney:
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 06:13 PM
Jan 2012

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 Mormon’s 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 insider’s 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.

Romney’s sworn allegiance to the Mormon Church—the Great American Cult—belies 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 Church’s 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 Church’s political front man, has reinvented himself as a social conservative.

Moody writes, “I can’t 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 that’s 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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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
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