video claims Mitt Romney was member of a racist organization

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Attack video claims Mitt Romney is racist

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Is Mitt Romney racist? Right now some are asking that question - while others are waiting for an answer. An online video is making the rounds and making claims that the presidential candidate and Mormon is racist.

The video is three and half minutes long and over dramatic music you hear the narrator say things like, "Mitt Romney was part of an official racist organization until he was 31 years old." The organization the video refers to is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The video goes on to point out that "it wasn't until 1978 that the Mormon Church allowed blacks to participate fully." The attack video talks about the LDS faith, but is aimed at Romney. In a clip from an interview a few years ago Romney says, "I'm proud of my faith, and it’s the faith of my fathers." That is followed by the narrator saying, "The faith of his father’s is a racist faith."

Some members of the LDS faith tell ABC 4 News that Romney will have to confront the issue and the LDS Church’s history. John Binns, who is LDS, says, "I think he should be honest. Talk about it and he should hide from it."

source->http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/mitt-romney-racist-racism-mormon-1978/1Ch6fXiEeUKrG2RRIY1O6Q.cspx

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1. Mitt Rmonehy honest? This I gotta see.

Never happen. He'll obfuscate and bullshit and outright lie.

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2. I have been waiting all primary season for this issue to come up.

Only the complete ineptitude of Romney's GOP rivals could allow him to sit on such a potential time bomb as the Mormon faith for so long.


Magic Underwear. Joseph Smith. Discrimination. How is this guy winning the GOP nomination again?



Oh by the way, we still haven't got into Romney being in FAVOR of the Vietnam war while dodging the draft to do mission work for his racist church.

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3. Let's not forget Kolob

Kolob is a star or planet described in Mormon scripture. Reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham, a work published by Latter Day Saint (LDS) prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. According to this work, Kolob is the heavenly body nearest to the throne or residence of God. While the Book of Abraham refers to Kolob as a "star",[1] it also refers to planets as stars,[2] and therefore, some LDS commentators consider Kolob to be a planet.[3] Other Latter Day Saints (commonly referred to as Mormons) consider Kolob to be a Christian metaphor.

Kolob has never been identified with any modern astronomical object and is not recognized as an ancient concept by modern Egyptology. Kolob is rarely discussed in modern LDS religious contexts, but it is periodically a topic of discussion in criticism of Mormonism. The idea also appears within LDS culture, and there is a LDS hymn about it. Kolob is also the inspiration for the planet Kobol within the Battlestar Galactica universe, created by Glen A. Larson, a Mormon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob

Though the modern-day Mormons claim to see this as a Christian metaphor, at one time they truly believed it (much like Scientologists believe in their planet Xenu). Then if you look at the history of Mormonism (and some folks who study cults, still classify the LDS as a cult), Joseph Smith pronounced he "...wanted to be known as the Prophet Muhammad of North America, with the fearsome slogan: “Either al-Koran or the Sword.” He levied war against his fellow citizens, and against the federal government." (http://slate.me/zU1kHn)

Then there's the whole thing where they scour death records and basically convert the dead to Mormonism (whether they want to be or not. I think I recall Obama's mother being converted).

Anyway, read the Slate article I link to above about all the whacked out, weird things associated with the LDS church. It concerns me that we could have a President whose ultimate authority lays with the "Prophet" of the church. I mean, if Romney is a devout Mormon and the "Prophet" tells him to do something, then he must do it or risk being shunned from the church. So if the "Prophet" tells him that maybe all gay folks (I'm going for the extreme here) are to be rounded up and put in detention camps, is Romney going to serve the government (and the people he's supposed to protect as President) or listen to his "Prophet"?