(Editor’s note: The view expressed here are solely those of the author.)
It is frequently said that Mitt Romney’s Mormon religious beliefs are irrelevant because, as the common refrain goes, “We are electing a President not a Priest.”
Yet if Willard Mitchell Romney is elected as the nation’s 45th President, we would, ironically enough, actually be electing a priest president.
And while many may not think that Romney’s religious beliefs will influence how he governs, the core tenets of Romney’s own faith say otherwise.
Romney, who is a 5th generation high temple Mormon priest and great-great- grandson of Joseph Smith’s right hand man Parley Pratt (a major leader of the Mormon Church who was murdered by the estranged husband of his 12th wife) has frequently stated that he takes his Mormon faith “very seriously.”
The same polytheistic “faith” whose core doctrines, covenants, and prophetic pronouncements state that:
- The Bible on its own can’t be trusted and that we can only understand it through the “revelations” of the Mormon “prophet” Joe Smith. (Mormon Doctrine, p. 670)
- Jesus is the “spirit brother of Lucifer” and not God in the flesh. (Mormon Doctrine, p. 163.)
- There is no hell. (Mormon Doctrine, p. 348)
- Blacks have the “mark of Cain” (“a flat nose and black skin”) “and are cursed.” (Journal of Discourses, 7:290)
- Women are inferior to men. (19th-century LDS leader Erastus Snow preached: “No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.”)
- God came from another planet, has a body of flesh and bones like man’s and has a goddess wife, and we can become literal gods. (Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 345; Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 333)
- Only Mormons inherit the afterlife in the “celestial kingdom” and that there is no salvation outside the Mormon Church. (Mormon Doctrine, p. 670).
So, is it really fair to say that Romney’s deeply-held religious beliefs are irrelevant when Romney himself has sworn a blood oath in a secret Mormon temple ceremony to obey the Mormon Church and its prophet above the U.S. Constitution?
Go ahead and vote for the most radically pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, anti- family governor in U.S. History if you subscribe to what I believe to be the totally un-Biblical, utilitarian, and morally-relativistic “lesser of two evils” construct.
But let’s not delude ourselves that if we elect Romney to the office of the presidency, we’re not electing a priest whose primary allegiance is to the polytheistic, anti-Christical Mormon “church”, its “prophet”, and their apostate beliefs (and not to the United States Constitution.)
Gregg Jackson is the national best-selling author of Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies, former radio host on WRKO in Boston and KDAR in Los Angeles, an accomplished speaker who speaks to groups on college campuses nationwide, and writer whose articles have been published in The Wall St. Journal, Washington Times, Human Events, and Townhall.com. His new book that he co-authored with nationally syndicated radio host, Steve Deace, is called: We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Where the Christian Right Went Wrong and How to Make America Right Again.
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At least I respect Ryan and Romney not backing down from their religion. I think Obama leans more muslim but I doubt if he worships anything but himself and Biden did not stand up for his religion. all I can tell you I would vote for a morman over a moron anyday.
patti’s notes: what does it matter,what religion,he belives in god. obama’s ,god is “allah”.no god,but “allah”. pl,orl,fla
Why not focus on the more relevant “facts” that his religious beliefs promote? How about clean living and treating your body as a temple that you don’t pollute with drugs and alcohol? How about treating people with respect, even when you think they are blooming idiots? How about service to your fellow man? Generosity and willingness to help in times of others’ need? Even more important, unfailing PATRIOTISM!!!
All religious sects have some things that seem screwy to others, if you dig deep enough into history. I would rather put my faith in someone who HAS an American moral compass than someone who is trying to give us over to 7th century Muslim radical Shariah laws.
Hardly any of us follow our Bible so strickly that we can’t adapt to the world we live in. We all try to be as close as we can. To compare Romney to the strict tenet’s of his Bible is foolish. He will preside over our United States with love and belief in it’s constitution as best he can. At least he’ll have love of our country, pride in our coutnry, and bring us back closer to what we should be. I’ll take a Mormon Priest over a man who wants socialism for our country and Allah to be our God anytime. This is an election to stop our country from becoming the epitome of something we don’t want. I’ll take my neighbors dog over OBama.
What an absolute idiotic and irresponsible article! Anyone who doesn’t vote for Mitt Romney is voting for Barack Obama. If you think he stands for good, you’re insane! I can’t believe you people published this irresponsible tripe!
Look in the mirror to find idiot. Split votes is the only way obama will win. Duh……….math?
“Idiotic article” huh? Funny how nobody has actually been able to cite one example of anything the author has written that isn’t true:-) Very telling…
Yep. I confirm it. This is an idiot article. The author has his own anti-Mormon agenda. He gets the doctrine all wrong, doesn’t know anything about his subject, and just spits out venom and hate to satisfy his own agenda. He quotes things from 150 years ago that are only so relevant to todays times. Then, women had few rights anywhere, so the fact that Lorenzo Snow said that a woman had to received by her husband would have been easily accepted anywhere in American society. Why don’t you go dig up all the old stories about Joseph Smith being a gold digger (True. He was paid by a man to dig holes because the man thought there was gold on his property. It was a job, idiot!) The writer, Gregg Jackson, only shows his own ignorance with what he writes. He knows little or nothing about Latter-Day Saint theology and shows it with his claims.
Candyman,
Your points are logically and theologically sour! Yes Jackson quotes things from 150 years ago because that’s when this theology arose literally “out of the hills” and as in any theology, the prophets words are time transcendent and must be coinsidered as True by followers such as Mitt Romney. Just as a Christian cannot change/nullify the words of Paul or Isaiah from 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, Mitt Romney cannot play the Mormon and not take the theology/revelations/writings of Brigham Young,Church apostles, and presidnets as TRUTH.
And that is the reason Mitt Romney will not only not talk about his faith, he WON’T LET ANYBOIDY ELSE TALK ABOUT IT TO HIM! Witness how Romney and his staff turn off then take the mike away from a voter trying to ask Romney about Mormonism and the “curse” of Black skin in the Romney Town hall meeting 4/2/12 the day before the Wisconsin GOP primary Romney: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/mormon-question-sparks-tense-moment-during-mitt-romney-town-hall/ . Who can even believe an American candidate for president would do this!
And how would Romney defend or America even begin to comprehend the words of Mormon prophet Brigham Young (whom Mitt Romney says he admires and whose school- BYU- is his alma mater.): Journal of Discourses: Brigham Young, vol.7, p.290: “You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable amd low in their habits, wild and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. That was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him which is the flat nose and black skin”
Go Gregg Jackson, you have the courage to speak truth to power, even if it’s on your side of the aisle-
So I guess you are all for the foreign, muslim murderer. We will hire Romney because he is a good business man. Also he is against abortion and holds to the Biblical laws. Most demoniations believe they are the only ones goes to heaven. Church of Chirst for example. As long as he believes in our creator and not allah it is a huge step in the right direction. At least he loves America, is a legal citizen, and wants our country free for his children and grandchildren. Give me a break. Why did you not post about obama’s muslium beliefs before he somehow got in office. I still don’t think that was a legal election. He has no truth in him when it comes in Infidels.
I am not much favorable towards the Mormon Church and some of its teachings. However, when someone is talking out their ass about a subject that is more than obvious the writer has purposely selected a very poor examples. 1. “If” you have read the Book of Mormon and had the least insight into it, you would have realized it is nothing more than a second witness to Jesus Christ and supports aspects of the Christian Bible. 2. “Mormon Doctrine” I suppose you are trying to quote out the book of their church doctrine written by Apostles – Bruce R. McConkie – 1. Bruce R. McConkie gave a disclaimer at the front of the book, stating that he alone was responsible for the doctrinal and spiritual interpretations. It is clear that McConkie obviously did not mean to infer that everything within the book was official Mormon doctrine, but instead were his opinions and conjecture from the things that he had learned in his personal story. (LDS Church). If you look up the referenced page you will the comment is taken out of context by word selection. The other comments again are taken way out of context and presented very poorly. The LDS church has a core element of values and ethics that have been summed up in what they call the 13 articles of faith. I have not seen anything related like this other than in the Koran giving permission to kill or destroy the “Infidels” non-Islamic believers. These “articles of faith” have not changed since they have been written to my knowledge “12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” One of their prophecies is the prevention and fall of the Constitution, and original purpose of the parts of government in its checks and balances. As far as calling Romney a presidential priest, that is so funny, I have never heard of an adult “Mormon Priest.” That to me would like calling President Kennedy, a Catholic Cardinal President, or Bishop Kennedy. Any person who has been taught and lived a system of core values and life guiding principles will always fall back to them in times of stress. This is more than obvious with oboma falling back to his nature and core values of Islamic teachings. Unfortunately, that is probably why they live a nomadic life style and are easily brainwashed. The past behaviors of a person are a pretty good indicator of future intent. We see this every day, I would look at the core issues or beliefs of how the person has adopted and used them over the course of the life. What have they given for the betterment of humankind?
I am not much favorable towards the Mormon Church and some of its teachings. However, when someone is talking out their ass about a subject that is more than obvious the writer has purposely selected a very poor examples. 1. “If” you have read the Book of Mormon and had the least insight into it, you would have realized it is nothing more than a second witness to Jesus Christ and supports aspects of the Christian Bible. 2. “Mormon Doctrine” I suppose you are trying to quote out the book of their church doctrine written by Apostles – Bruce R. McConkie – 1. Bruce R. McConkie gave a disclaimer at the front of the book, stating that he alone was responsible for the doctrinal and spiritual interpretations. It is clear that McConkie obviously did not mean to infer that everything within the book was official Mormon doctrine, but instead were his opinions and conjecture from the things that he had learned in his personal story. (LDS Church). If you look up the referenced page you will the comment is taken out of context by word selection. The other comments again are taken way out of context and presented very poorly. The LDS church has a core element of values and ethics that have been summed up in what they call the 13 articles of faith. I have not seen anything related like this other than in the Koran giving permission to kill or destroy the “Infidels” non-Islamic believers. These “articles of faith” have not changed since they have been written to my knowledge “12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” One of their prophecies is the prevention and fall of the Constitution, and original purpose of the parts of government in its checks and balances. As far as calling Romney a presidential priest, that is so funny, I have never heard of an adult “Mormon Priest.” That to me would like calling President Kennedy, a Catholic Cardinal President, or Bishop Kennedy. Any person who has been taught and lived a system of core values and life guiding principles will always fall back to them in times of stress. This is more than obvious with oboma falling back to his nature and core values of Islamic teachings. Unfortunately, that is probably why they live a nomadic life style and are easily brainwashed. The past behaviors of a person are a pretty good indicator of future intent. We see this every day, I would look at the core issues or beliefs of how the person has adopted and used them over the course of the life. What have they given for the betterment of humankind?
I am not much favorable towards the Mormon Church and some of its teachings. However, when someone is talking out their ass about a subject that is more than obvious the writer has purposely selected a very poor examples. 1. “If” you have read the Book of Mormon and had the least insight into it, you would have realized it is nothing more than a second witness to Jesus Christ and supports aspects of the Christian Bible. 2. “Mormon Doctrine” I suppose you are trying to quote out the book of their church doctrine written by Apostles – Bruce R. McConkie – 1. Bruce R. McConkie gave a disclaimer at the front of the book, stating that he alone was responsible for the doctrinal and spiritual interpretations. It is clear that McConkie obviously did not mean to infer that everything within the book was official Mormon doctrine, but instead were his opinions and conjecture from the things that he had learned in his personal story. (LDS Church). If you look up the referenced page you will the comment is taken out of context by word selection. The other comments again are taken way out of context and presented very poorly. The LDS church has a core element of values and ethics that have been summed up in what they call the 13 articles of faith. I have not seen anything related like this other than in the Koran giving permission to kill or destroy the “Infidels” non-Islamic believers. These “articles of faith” have not changed since they have been written to my knowledge “12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” One of their prophecies is the prevention and fall of the Constitution, and original purpose of the parts of government in its checks and balances. As far as calling Romney a presidential priest, that is so funny, I have never heard of an adult “Mormon Priest.” That to me would like calling President Kennedy, a Catholic Cardinal President, or Bishop Kennedy. Any person who has been taught and lived a system of core values and life guiding principles will always fall back to them in times of stress. This is more than obvious with oboma falling back to his nature and core values of Islamic teachings. Unfortunately, that is probably why they live a nomadic life style and are easily brainwashed. The past behaviors of a person are a pretty good indicator of future intent. We see this every day, I would look at the core issues or beliefs of how the person has adopted and used them over the course of the life. What have they given for the betterment of humankind?
You are a Mormon = you are deceived = anything you say here comes from a deceived point of view. You live lies, you woship lies, you believe lies and you support and belong to a church that has been proven to be patently false.
Oh and the muslim is the better choice? You are wasting your time with your snake oil.
And you are wasting your time striving to become a Mormon literal God, equal to Jesus Christ. Again, You are a Mormon = you are deceived = anything you say here comes from a deceived point of view. You live lies, you woship lies, you believe lies and you support and belong to a church that has been proven to be patently false.
I have not ever been a mormon. I have been a Baptist all my life which I am sure you can take issue with that also. I spent years studing and reasearching the Bible. I bought books to take it back to the original greek and hebrew. I study and form my own opinions for things were changing in the church and I was unsure of some of the new beliefs. I do not own any of the new Bibles that have changed words to change the original meanings. I did this for myself to have a better understanding of my creator not to beat someone over the head with it if they don’t agree with me. God gives to those what they can handle or stupor to saving them from understanding truth and being blotted out. He does all to save all his children but as he says they are soddish. You have great hate for mormons and Romney and love obama and muslim, we get it. Geeza
I can’t stand Obama and will not vote for him either. Charles Spugeon: “Of Two evils, choose neither”.
And I love Romney and Mormons enough to tell them the truth.
It’s obvious that MORMONS are filling up the comments section here. Note to America, when you TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MORMON CULT, MORMONS CALL YOU A LIAR AND VEHEMENTLY ATTACK THE TRUTH TELLER. Mr. Jackson did a gutsy thing here. And everything he said is the truth. I’ll tell you who else is telling the truth about Romney, the book “CAN MITT ROMNEY SERVE TWO MASTERS?” THE MORMON CHURCH VS THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY”. Everybody needs to read this book, especially if Romney gets elected. There is a MORMON PLAN FOR AMERICA AND MITT ROMNEY BELEIVES THAT HE WILL BECOME A LITERAL GOD AND GET HIS OWN PLANET. We may be electing a completely crazy President with a Mormon agenda for America. Read that book, and then get back to me.
Charles Spurgeon, “Of Two Evils, choose neither”
I am not Mormon, just for the record.
Speak on Certainly Truth-You are Certainly Right! The Tricia Erickson book “Can Mitt Romney serve Two Masters” is dead on! Ms. Eirckson has a message this nation needs to hear now.
The Right gets all over Rev. Wright, and justifies it, but we’re not suppose to even ask Mitt Romney any questions about his bizarre faith! And if we do, he will take the mike away from us just like he did that 28 year old voter at the 4/2/12 Romney Town Hall meeting in Wisconsin! (see link above 10/13/12 7:14 P.M.).
And since Mitt Romney considers his Faith and his Tax Returns a covert operation, here is a video link explaining some essentials of the Mormon Church: ”
What mormons Believe”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGFAph3lWqw&feature=email
-goodbye Trinity!
-hello non-virgin birth!
-hello Jesus as Polygamist!
–hello Black Skin a “curse”:
Quote from 10th Mormon Church President, Joseph Fielding Smith:The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City, 1935, pp.101-2:
“Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures. Millions of souls have come into this world cursed with black skin and have been denied the privilege of the Priesthood and the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel. These are the descendents of Cain. Moreover, they have been made to feel their inferiority and have been separated from the rest of mankind from the beginning”.
Why hasn’t Mitt Romney denounced this??? Could it be because many of “those people” are in the 47%!!!
Wrong, wrong wrong, You are just trying to stir up trouble and split votes so obama will win. How stupid do you think we are here? All churchs have evolved thru the years and your curse of black skin is not scriputal! Where did Jesus live idiot? They walked in the desert, how many light skin ppl do you think lived in that time. White may have evolved over time. Black skin is not now nor has it ever been a curse. Just for the record I am white but have many black friends and take huge issue with your silly post. Hopefully no one will believe your dripple. Let me denounce this for Mitt.
Be wiser than the serpent.
I strongly encourage you all to read the book, “Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters?”. Chapter 5 covers the entire atrocious race issue of Mitt’s Mormonism. I took the liberty of copying some excerpts here:
The Book of Mormon accuses God of cursing Africans and Native Americans in the following passages of 2nd Nephi Chapter 5:
21 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. 22 And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they shall be loathesome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities. 23 And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing. And the Lord spake it, and it was done.
And In your Mormon Journal of Discourses Brigham Young adds emphasis in the following statement:
“Classes of the human family that are black uncouth uncomely disagreeable and low in their habits wild and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind the first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings this was not to be and the lord put a mark upon him which is the flat nose and black skin trace mankind down to after the flood and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race that they should be the 11 servant of servants and they will be until that curse is removed and the abolitionists cannot help it nor in the least alter that decree how long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them that curse will remain upon them”
“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain the penalty under the law of God is death on the spot.”
Repeating the same thing over and over does not change my views. I know these are your views but you are wrong. Read the Bible and leave the other books alone. This is not old testiment time and you can’t talk for God. It is obvious you have no clue of the nature of God. He loves all his children and we are all his children no matter our skin color. He created us all. Do you know anyone else’s heart and thoughts? I thought only God could do that. You are coming across as arrogant as obama. You are not for Romney fine. I will do whatever it takes to get he muslim foreigner who is unqualified in every area to be president. He has never had a real job. He is a paid speaker and a goof off.
Anyone who does not vote for Romney is voting for obama! I will take anyone that believes in God over one that worship a false god that tell them to kill anyone that does not convert. Wake up people. We are going to be under the control of a world government and lose all our freedom. There are different sect of Mormon just like Baptist. Mitt has one wife and cares about family. He is an American and loves this country and that is enough for me. At leaset he is not a foreign, muslim who is here to destroy our country. If we don’t get Mitt we are done. Want all your necessities to be rationed? Give even more of your money to government? Have your elderly and sick if they cost too much put on the LIST and given meds for pain only? Put a baby that survives an abortion in a closet till they die alone? Abort next generation, kill off elderly, controled by terrosit for government will be gone. No economy that is not control. You are of value as long as your produce enought. Finally will come down to vowing to allah over God and that will never happen with me. I will give my life for freedom so don’t make me go there! God Bless America.
Mitt Romney “fathered” gay marriage to the country through his Governorship of MA. (the destruction of the family)
Mitt Romney forced Catholic charities to close down, rather than allow gays to adopt innocent children from their adoption programs.
Mitt Romney “fathered” to America Government Mandated Healthcare through his Governorship of MA
Mitt Romney “fathered” tax payer funding of abortion as he signed-in-to-law $50.00 (now down to zero dollars) co-pay abortions under his signature government mandated Romneycare
Mitt Romney forced Catholic hospitals to provide abortificients
Mitt Romney held senior oversight position with his Bain Capital investment as 48% share holders of Stericycle, a waste management company that disposed of aborted baby arms, legs, bodies
Hitler killed 12 million. Stalin killed 50 million. On the issue of voting for the “lessor of evils”, would you vote for Hitler over Stalin?
Christian, we have lost our way and cannot support this. Charles Spurgeon: “Of two evils, choose neither”.
God only asks us to obey and leave the consequences to Him.
We are to be the salt and light of the world which means stand up for his laws. Being a good person by society’s standard will leave you truly lacking. I don”t know where you get your crazy ideas but I know Catholic beliefs are not what you have posted. Reading others books and opinions are like teaching in church from any book other than the Bible. Taking others opinions without researching for yourself and running with it as truth. Children abopted by gays is your choice? Need to change your name here. No Catholic is for abortion or birthcontrol if they are devout. Obama has shown his beliefs in all his actions and muslim are terrifying. Pray for knowledge and understanding and don’t believe everything you read except the Bible. Think for yourself don’t run with other peoples ideas.
You know, you people really don’t get it do you..We already have a Allah worshiping Muslim Brotherhood, want to kill all who arel not of Islam, take over the world kinda guy already sitting in the white house with his finger sitting on the nuclear button and all you want to do is start finding things wrong with the man running against Obama. Yes, the Morman faith is a little different than a lot of other faiths out there but Romney isn’t trying to take over the world and kill anyone who isn’t Morman. Hey,,,go back to where Mitt was born, and then follow his education schooling and how he was raised. And now lets look at his associate’s that he worked with, and I bet they are not the kind of people that Obama worked with as associates as he came up through the political world. Go back and look at that and tell me what you come up with…You will find that Romney was involved in making a business work and put a lot of hard work into making a better life for his family. There were no adjenda’s that was associated with Socialist and Communist all through his working background like there was with Obama. You people really don’t think things through all the way do you….Go back and do the full background searchs through both guys and see what you come up with, and the book you need to start with on Obama is Obama’s Timeline. It will amaze you who you find in Obama’s background. They are ALL either Socialist or Communist and they all have an agenda for taking over the United States of America…You will not find anything even close, in fact, not at all in Romneys background…..So do like I have done and go back and do the background work on both guys and see where it leads you and get back to me when you finish…YOU people really need to think things through before you jump to conclusions about Romney wanting to be, what was it,? Romney will become a literal GOD and GET his Own Planet….If you think Romney thinks in those terms, you are an idiot..I belonged to the Morman church for about 9 months and they do NOT think like that….They do NOT follow some of the people in their closer history like you might think they do..they are quite a bit like a normal church and I belonged to the Southern Babtist before I joined the Morman church back in the mid 70′s. I wouldn’t worry about Romney trying to take over the US and then the World……LOL….Some people just really crack me up when it comes to jumping to conclusions about somebody….
OH,,,and by the way,,I am now back to being a Southern Babtist because I moved back to an area where there were Babtist churches again so I am not Morman anymore after that time back in the 70′s when I just went to their church because I was invited to go there for a while since there was not a Babtist church near at the time I lived in Pittsburgh Pa…So I am not taking up for a church because I belong to it…I do not belong to the Morman church anymore…..
I agree, these people want obama for a second term to complete his agenda. Destroy America. Splitting the votes is the only way obama will win and that is their goal here. Be wiser than the serpent.