Unleash The Hounds!
The biggest news from yesterday was not “the confrontation,” (more in a moment) nor the BBC report, (again, more in a moment) it’s not even that Romney is very likely to have three more primary victories by the end of the day, it’s this:
In a move that shows Republicans are coalescing around the party’s front-runner, Mitt Romney plans to begin raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee this week as both the candidate and the GOP brace for an expensive general-election fight against President Barack Obama.
The RNC has left the sideline! There is no clearer sign short of the convention and actual nomination that the primary is over.
But apparently Ron Paul has not gotten the message, or at least not his Wisconsin supporters:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was confronted at a town hall meeting here Monday by a young man who read from a book of scripture published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and asked Romney whether he agreed with his church’s one-time belief that interracial marriage was a sin.
The questioner is reported as, “Bret Hatch, 28, a local supporter of Rep. Ron Paul’s,” but given the nature of the question he might as well have been from Camp Obama. There are two things that make this worthy of note. The first is that the particular doctrine cited – one having to do with race. That is the issue the left is going to pick on over and over and over again in the general. That truly makes me wonder if Mr. Hatch’s bona fides as a Ron Paul supporter were checked out.
The other thing that makes this worthy of note is the spin. David Brody (who has video BTW) gets all “I told you so…it’s not to late” in his tone. If that is the stance that Evangelicals are going to take when Obama comes after Romney on religion we really do have a problem. The other interesting thing was the MSM spin a bit later:
Romney declines to discuss religion on eve of Wisconsin primary polls show he’s favored to win
The story is not that Romney was asked about religion, but that he refused to discuss it. That’s interesting on several levels. It makes Romney appear evasive on both religion, and race. He is not evasive – the END of that piece says:
“This gentleman wanted to talk about the doctrines of my religion. I’ll talk about the practices of my faith,” Romney said, noting that his service as a pastor helped him connect with people on “a very personal basis.”
In an election the candidate is “on trial,” not his/her religion. That’s what Romney is saying here, “You want to talk about who I am and how my faith makes me live, fair game, but I am not here to teach you about Mormonism.” While I know there was some stuff written about “Cain’s curse” back in the civil rights days, I don’t even think avowed racist George Wallace ever had it read to him from the Bible. But of course, back then, there was not a man of color holding the Oval Office.
Finally, the BBC did a Mormon hatch job over the weekend. Joanna Brooks, with whom I agree on little, actually did a pretty good job refuting this bit of British slime. The Brits have a long standing tradition of this kind of hit journalism. We are supposed to be better in the US. If this thing hits our airwaves, it will lower the bar for American journalism considerably. What this is, is the same as this, and effort to make money off the race for POTUS.
Unless something shocking happens, we will probably not post on the returns until tomorrow morning.
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TVHall on 03 Apr 2012 at 11:10 am #
This is a bit “off track” from our usual focus here, but I just heard it reported (for the second time) that Sen. Santorum’s response to Mitt Romney suggesting that Republicans begin to unite around one candidate is, “I’m not going anywhere.”
I find myself forced to agree with the former Senator that point.
JLF9999 on 03 Apr 2012 at 1:00 pm #
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had an official practice of denying the priesthood and temple blessings to black males until 1979. That is undeniable. Because of that policy, our detractors claimed we are a racist church. I disagree but I can see why they would think so. What they did not include in their calculation was the number of other races among our membership. Many would ignore that part though.
It is also undeniable that amends (my words) have been made for the “no black males” policy. I offer as proof the fact that 5 temples have been built or are being built in Africa principally for our black African member’s use. Temples serve populations of about 50,000 active members. The number is larger in some areas with a high density of active membership.
Not insignificant is that we have built 78 temples around the world principally for use by our non-white membership. The point is that there are nearly as many non-white Mormons as white. So, saying we are a racist church just doesn’t hold up.
I suppose we can expect more of the same kind of lunacy coming from the Obama campaign that we read about in the BBC documentary BuzzFeed reports on. Did you read the comments? BuzzFeed is a leftist oriented site and even their readers laughed at the nonsense the BBC thought was newsworthy. Maybe there are a few Democrats who think for themselves.
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mchampneys on 09 Apr 2012 at 3:55 pm #
Mormons believe that God sometimes gives specific instructions to his people for specific situations that do not necessarily apply to everyone everywhere at all times. The passage of scripture referred to by Mr. Hatch was specifically for a group of ancient believers who were at war with another group of people of a different skin color and they were admonished not to intermarry with them at that time.
Inter-racial marriages are not uncommon among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints today and they certainly are not forbidden. As has been pointed out, the Mormon Church is a world wide Church that now has as many people of color as whites counted in it’s membership. I don’t think that would be the case if the non-whites felt that they were being discriminated against.