Mormon in the White House????

Question

Just in general I wouldnt be to worried about it, but i have these friends who are mormon and they seem totally awesome. They are some fo the few who have their priorities in line and their heads on straight. If Mitt has the same traits as the other mormons ive known id think he'd be awesome for the job. What are your opinions???

Answer 1

We've had Southern Baptist presidents and Catholic Presidents and heck, Thomas Jefferson was an Atheist or a Deist at the most. I'm sure it won't matter unless it directly interferes with political agenda. As long as the president can put his religious morals aside when deciding matters that would affect the entire U.S. population (making up many different religions and atheists), then it's fine with me. For example Sen. Kerry was Catholic and he is personally against abortion but he also realized that that was his religious morals and those couldn't be pressed upon an entire nation.

Answer 2

Well, I wouldn't know a Mormon if I tripped over one but, it does not seem to me that Romney's Mormonism has prompted him to do anything nutty and the guy knows how to do business.
He managed to bring statewide health care coverage to Massachusetts.
He bailed out a corrupt Olympic committee.
He has experience with security operations
He has conquered the private sector and does not need to work another day in his life.
Being president will cost him more than if he stayed away.
He spent a long time working in Europe particularly France.
He closed a 3 Billion dollar budget gap while governor.
His father was governor of Michigan
He's only had one wife.
He founded Bain Capital, a highly successful investment company that founded, acquired or invested in hundreds of companies, including Staples, Brookstone and Domino’s Pizza
He has a JD *** laude from Harvard Law School.

Seems to me the Mormonism didn't get in the way.

Orin Hatch ran for president, He's a Mormon. The subject never came up then, so what's the big deal now? Is somebody afraid that Romney will win?

Answer 3

You reported...of course Romney is deceived. of course? that's an pretty prejudiced fact. you already know little or no with regard to the Mormon faith. that's obtrusive. Why no longer strengthen your recommendations and notice the best in Mitt Romney and not the undesirable. in basic terms as with the unfairness that grew to become into shown the blacks in the time of historic previous so do many human beings do immediately in direction of the Mormons. So, what generates it? ask your self how and the place you acquire your adverse and can I upload, fake, ideas approximately Mormonism? grew to become into it your Pastor, a passing remark, or some incorrect way. i might guess you 1000 money that it wasn't out of your very own quite learn or learn. i might guess so you might no longer even call 2 people who you already know nicely that are Mormons. I advise you examine the passage in the Bible that talks with regard to the Mote and the Beam and then come again to us.

Answer 4

While I'm sure there are good Mormons and bad Mormons, just as there are good Christians and bad Christians, good Muslims and bad Muslims, I prefer to judge a candidate by their record. They can't run from that.

Religion should not be a factor, but, unfortunately, it is. And I'm sure the answers you get will be fairly tame compared to asking the question about a Muslim in the White House.

Answer 5

I don't believe a person's religion is what should qualify/disqualify that person from the Presidency. The primary consideration is whether they have or have not been faithfully upholding the U.S. Constitution in whatever public service capacity they have had.
Which means most currently in Congress aren't qualified for their jobs either.

Term limits is the only answer.

Answer 6

It couldn't be any worse than the Evangelical Fundamentalist we have now, I guess. That's not saying much.

I think the Mormon Religion is pretty crazy. They believe some incarnation of Jesus greeted them in upstate New York somewhere and granted America on them. Something like that, I don't really understand it fully.

Weird if you ask me.

Answer 7

Ask them this one question- What happens when a black man dies? The Mormon faith until the mid 60's believed blacks could only enter heaven if they were slaves. Then the sudden switch. That combined with the fact that the founder was a con- man from the 1800's should raise a lot of questions and doubts regarding the faith to begin with. Not to mention a President that would buy into such nonsense.

Answer 8

That religion may be problematic as there are hints of racism and and authoritarianism that flow from it.

But the real issue is how good of a president would the person make regardless of religion.

In romney's case, I would not vote for him cause he is a republican. I have hesitations about democrats too, especially hillary clinton, but generally I would vote for any democrat over any republican nominee since as see the Democrats as the lesser of the 2 evils.

Answer 9

I'm OK with it... I believe most Mormons view the nanny state with the appropriate skepticism. They saw the potholes in that "faith-based initiative" nonsense and steered clear, realizing they would become wards of the state and subject to the rules of the nanny state. Good for them.

Answer 10

Romney is a good and qualified candidate. I have no problem with his religion. No Americans really do. If you remember when Bush was running, the democrats were making a big stink about his religious beliefs, too. Made little difference in the elections, both elections.

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