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	<title>Comments on: If This Were Yesterday, I&#8217;d Say It HAD To Be  Joke&#8230;</title>
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	<description>&#34;Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by an Evangelical Christian and A Mormon&#34;</description>
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		<title>By: coltakashi</title>
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		<dc:creator>coltakashi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These anti-Mormon conspiracy theories are really lame.  But the suspicion toward Mormons and the notion that we are somehow guilty until proven innocent was clearly part of the opposition among millions of Evangelical voters to Romney.  

As I understand it, many of the people who constitute the Christian Right think that nominating, let alone electing, a Mormon to the presidency would place America at risk of a Mormon theological conspiracy.  They therefore are committed to the goal of cutting Mormon candidates out of the running and only supporting Evangelicals, in order to protect themselves from such a conspiracy.

Since the two times they succeeded in electing Evangelicals they got Jimmy Carter, the most blatantly incompetent President of the 20th century, and Bill Clinton, who didn&#039;t seem to get the message that adultery was not part of being Christian, one would wonder why they don&#039;t reevaluate their goal.  Additionally, they produced the Obama presidency, which undermines all of the things they believe in.  But the fact that a strategy does not work is apparently of no consequence to such folks.  

The 2008 election established beyond a reasonable doubt that American voters have largely moved beyond racial prejudice, and gender prejudice, but they are still holding onto religious prejudice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These anti-Mormon conspiracy theories are really lame.  But the suspicion toward Mormons and the notion that we are somehow guilty until proven innocent was clearly part of the opposition among millions of Evangelical voters to Romney.  </p>
<p>As I understand it, many of the people who constitute the Christian Right think that nominating, let alone electing, a Mormon to the presidency would place America at risk of a Mormon theological conspiracy.  They therefore are committed to the goal of cutting Mormon candidates out of the running and only supporting Evangelicals, in order to protect themselves from such a conspiracy.</p>
<p>Since the two times they succeeded in electing Evangelicals they got Jimmy Carter, the most blatantly incompetent President of the 20th century, and Bill Clinton, who didn&#8217;t seem to get the message that adultery was not part of being Christian, one would wonder why they don&#8217;t reevaluate their goal.  Additionally, they produced the Obama presidency, which undermines all of the things they believe in.  But the fact that a strategy does not work is apparently of no consequence to such folks.  </p>
<p>The 2008 election established beyond a reasonable doubt that American voters have largely moved beyond racial prejudice, and gender prejudice, but they are still holding onto religious prejudice.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerald</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Howard Hughes and Area 51&quot; LOL

Anyway, let&#039;em come after us. Our noses are clean.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Howard Hughes and Area 51&#8243; LOL</p>
<p>Anyway, let&#8217;em come after us. Our noses are clean.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug King</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doug King</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder how the guy overlooked the sinister connection to Howard Hughes and Area 51.  I think his real motive was revealed in the last paragraph:  

&lt;blockquote&gt;All good but ignorant Mormon members who want to stand up and defend your leaders against these charges need to be silent for you will be entering an arena in which you have absolutely no knowledge. Indeed if you do, you will likely be guilty of being an accessory after the fact.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In other words, &lt;em&gt;all you Mormons out there better shut up and don&#039;t rock the political boat or we will come after you!&lt;/em&gt;  This is a message Mormons have heard many, many times.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder how the guy overlooked the sinister connection to Howard Hughes and Area 51.  I think his real motive was revealed in the last paragraph:  </p>
<blockquote><p>All good but ignorant Mormon members who want to stand up and defend your leaders against these charges need to be silent for you will be entering an arena in which you have absolutely no knowledge. Indeed if you do, you will likely be guilty of being an accessory after the fact.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, <em>all you Mormons out there better shut up and don&#8217;t rock the political boat or we will come after you!</em>  This is a message Mormons have heard many, many times.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerald</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, a disaffected Mormon with a conspiracy theory disorder and a compulsive obsession with the church he left.

Not must to say, the people who eat this stuff up are incurable.

Like I say of my Jewish friends (they suffer from even more of this kind of garbage), if we are so powerful, secretely organized, and running things behind the scenes, why don&#039;t we do something to protect ourselves better! LOL

If this were true, Huckabee would have disappeared in the weeks leading up to the Iowa primary LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, a disaffected Mormon with a conspiracy theory disorder and a compulsive obsession with the church he left.</p>
<p>Not must to say, the people who eat this stuff up are incurable.</p>
<p>Like I say of my Jewish friends (they suffer from even more of this kind of garbage), if we are so powerful, secretely organized, and running things behind the scenes, why don&#8217;t we do something to protect ourselves better! LOL</p>
<p>If this were true, Huckabee would have disappeared in the weeks leading up to the Iowa primary LOL</p>
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		<title>By: Lori</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe that I actually clicked over and read the darn thing.  It is laughable!  The guy&#039;s premise is not true and therefore all his assertions are silly. Sort of along the line of &quot;When did you stop beating your wife?&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe that I actually clicked over and read the darn thing.  It is laughable!  The guy&#8217;s premise is not true and therefore all his assertions are silly. Sort of along the line of &#8220;When did you stop beating your wife?&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: K.G.</title>
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		<dc:creator>K.G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What????? The Utah uranium went to England? I read it went to Australia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What????? The Utah uranium went to England? I read it went to Australia.</p>
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