How come people are not going to vote for Romney just because he is LDS (Mormon)? Wat is it against Mormons? Or aare there other reasons people dont like him...?
2007-11-17 04:52:46 · 16 answers · asked by wakeupcall 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
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I like Mitt okay and will vote for him if he is the Republican nominee. I don't care about him being Mormon or LDS!
2007-11-17 08:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
People don't want a fundamentalist running the country. The terrorists are fundamentalists. Mormonism is seen as a strict fundamentalist religion. Plus most of the country sees Mormons as being equivalent to the Amish. A weird cult in the minority with strange practices and values. Also, nobody wants a republican in office anymore. They screwed up enough already. It's time for democrats to repair the damage that republicans have done over the past two terms.
2007-11-17 13:05:31 · answer #2 · answered by FSM Raguru AM™ 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
No one is saying Romney can’t believe how he wants to believe. But the people voting for him do have a right to question the past decisions that he’s made, including his decision to join and be a part of such a ludicrous cult. If a Rastafarian were running for office, does anyone think that his belief that smoking marijuana to worship God would not be attacked?
Romney believes that that the American Indians are principal ancestors of a lost tribe of Israel, “Jews with cursed dark skin” despite the DNA evidence that has proven this not to be the case. In my view this is also a racist belief.
Romney also believes in a religion that held that God cursed and marked the Africans with dark skin and excluded them from the priesthood (a position later changed in 1976 because the Mormons said they received a revelation from God).
Romney believes a book to be truth (the Book of Mormon) that the archaeological community has unanimously discredited. (see the Smithsonian institute's official statement). There is no archaeological, linguistic, or geographical evidence for the Book of Mormon, and there is evidence that it’s the product of Smith's vibrant imagination.
Romney believes that Smith’s Book of Abraham was translated by Smith from Egyptian papyrus that has now been shown by professional Egyptologists to be the work of Joseph's imagination; Smith’s alleged translation of some Egyptian papyrus was nothing more than a common funeral rite found on the chest of a mummy!
Romney believes in a religion where women are viewed as mere helpmates, in the temple they are told to veil their faces and swear to obey their husbands and they are ritually designated one of many queens to his Kingly harem in heaven. Women are not allowed to hold the priesthood power either which creates inequality.
Romney is a member of a religion that shuns academic scholarship, scientific research, and logical analysis when it conflicts with the Mormon dogma.
Now, knowing what Romney believes in and deducing how he arrives at those beliefs, isn’t it reasonable for people to question his logic and thought process in choosing to believe these things? Do we really want a man in charge of the most powerful nation in the world, making decisions not based on evidence and scientific research, but rather on praying and waiting for a “burning in his bosom”? Romney will believe what the Mormon church tells him to believe. You think the weapons of mass destruction charade was bad, just wait till this guy is in office!
2007-11-17 15:28:24 · answer #3 · answered by Bustyn Y 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Nobody's voting for him yet because we have not had any elections yet. The primaries don't kick off until January and a lot can happen between now and then. Nobody has a lock on any nomination yet.
2007-11-17 15:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I sort of have a problem with a man who believes that God will end the world soon and establish heaven somewhere east of Kansas City.
Somehow (call me crazy) I just don't want a person who believes that having his finger on the Big Red Button.
2007-11-17 12:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yesterday I saw my first Mitt Romney bumper sticker. I've seen a few Obamas and Hillarys but that was the first Romney.
2007-11-17 13:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Other reasons: He seems to be an opportunist whose positions on the issues depend on what office he is running for, and what the electorate wants to hear.
2007-11-17 12:57:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
We dont know who we will even be able to vote for. Geez, right now we can just who we might vote for
2007-11-17 12:57:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
People have different reasons why or why not to vote for someone and you have heard some of them on here. I'm not voting for him because his agenda doesn't suit my priorities on the issues.
2007-11-17 13:58:22 · answer #9 · answered by Lettie D 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Because I value consistency, I cannot support a candidate that changes his positions like the weather
2007-11-17 13:49:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋