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More worried about the Church of Flip Flop than the Church of Mormon.
1. There is no Mormoninistan where they are getting US money, fighting a war, building a nuke, committing genocide or driving up the price of oil.
2. No Mormon ever flew a plane into a building and killed a lot of innocent people.
3. If there is a Mormon lobby on Capitol Hill making our reps and senators bend over and add earmaks to their legislation, I don't know about it. I've never heard of a Mormon boondoggle that has impacted the rest of the country.
4. There is no Mormon subsidy.
5. Mormons aren't marching on Washington with some Mormon flag, trashing the place, asking for special treatment/special handouts or acting like a bunch of jerks at soldiers' funerals.
6. There are no Mormon restaurants serving special Mormon food that you know, tastes terrible. Mrs Romney isn't pushing Mormon food on your school kids.
7. There are no Mormons refusing to speak English.
8. Fill in the blank: "Mormons control the/rule the (blank) and must be stopped." Yeah, I couldn't think of anything either.
9. Never happened: Mormons passed out kool-aid and poisoned all of their followers or went up on some mountain and waited for the end of the world.
It's a loaded question. It is a back handed slap at Mormonism. Has this question ever been asked about another candidate. Except perhaps Kennedy) why is the left preoccupied with his religion?
It's a loaded question. It is a back handed slap at Mormonism. Has this question ever been asked about another candidate. Except perhaps Kennedy) why is the left preoccupied with his religion?
He already made a speech addressing the issue in 2007, but it's a fair question given the role (some) religion plays in American society. The same would likely be asked of any newer religious tradition such as a potential Jehova's Witness or Christian Scientist candidate.
But really it's not so much the questions themselves but how a candidate answers them, hence why people remember Kennedy's remarks on Catholicism.
He already made a speech addressing the issue in 2007, but it's a fair question given the role (some) religion plays in American society. The same would likely be asked of any newer religious tradition such as a potential Jehova's Witness or Christian Scientist candidate.
But really it's not so much the questions themselves but how a candidate answers them, hence why people remember Kennedy's remarks on Catholicism.
No actually it is completely unfair and bigoted.
It is astonishing that you belive people remeber Kennrdy because he was Catholic.
It's a loaded question. It is a back handed slap at Mormonism. Has this question ever been asked about another candidate. Except perhaps Kennedy) why is the left preoccupied with his religion?
If he wants to. There is no reason he has to. He is free to discuss it or not.
Nah, not new at all to politics. As a matter of fact, I remember when the bigots attacked another President due to his beliefs.
John Kennedy, of course, but Jimmy Carter was Southern Baptist, I believe? I remember him being criticized for teaching Sunday School while he was President of the United States. I had an accounting instructor who often made caustic comments about that. I heard it mentioned on a news show that he had all liquor removed from the White House and only served white wine on occasion.
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