Working Off The Stack Of Stuff
The “big” story is this one from Buzzfeed on Mormonism and race. Andrea Mitchell interviewed the author on the web. The best analysis was Allahpundit:
You’ll get no complaint from the resident atheist about asking tough questions of any faith, especially after Obama took well-deserved heat four years ago over Rev. Wright (mainly from the right but, to a grudging lesser extent, from the media as well). The curiosity in that case was why our great post-partisan healer tolerated “chickens coming home to roost” sermons for 20 years at Trinity.
That’s what this is really about – payback for Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright was a very different story than the LDS church. What I think is illustrated here is that the Obama candidacy, election and presidency is far more about race than most people want to admit, and that is really sad.
Really tired of this discussion.
The snark here is both inappropriate and unbecoming, but buried within it is some wisdom:
But Santorum’s withdrawal is also a major milestone for God, the beloved all-powerful deity whose personal endorsement somehow failed to secure the nomination for any of the numerous Republicans — Santorum, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry — whom he reportedly encouraged to run for president. It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election.
Those that think Gingrich might still mount a challenge need to read this.
Speaking of some wisdom, David French:
It’s tough to see any coherent theological counter to this religious entropy. The cultural counter to theological heterodoxy may, however, be moral orthodoxy. In other words, the unifying force in the truly vibrant quarters of Christendom isn’t so much a single theological view as a moral view that is remarkably uniform across divergent theologies. Devout Catholics, evangelicals, and Mormons have similar views of sexuality, abortion, and a host of other issues despite widely divergent views of everything from the Canon to the Trinity. We’re now at the point where, for example, a PCA Presbyterian is likely to feel far more affinity for a devout Catholic than for a fellow Presbyterian in the PCUSA. A Southern Baptist will ally with Mormons to defend traditional marriage from attacks by liberal American Baptists seeking “marriage equality” for gays and lesbians.
To the ramparts dear friends, the war is on!
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TVHall on 11 Apr 2012 at 8:17 am #
“Working Off The Stack Of Stuff” (to coin a phrase?)
JLF9999 on 11 Apr 2012 at 10:38 am #
“I want to hear him talk about this”. “…he needs to contextualize this for us” says Marc Lamont Hill speaking about Mitt’s views on racism in the Church. Apparently Hill doesn’t do homework because the church has been talking about this for decades. Maybe Hill just doesn’t listen or maybe he doesn’t want to know. Here is an interesting piece by the late Neal A Maxwell, an apostle written in 1995. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/04/deny-yourselves-of-all-ungodliness?lang=eng&query=racism
Maybe it is easier just to provide this link: https://www.lds.org/search?lang=eng&query=racism. How about this link” https://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/02/news-of-the-church/church-issues-statement-on-racial-equality?lang=eng&query=racial. If these don’t work how about this: http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_racial_issues/Racial_statements_by_Church_leaders.
I won’t take up any more of A6B bandwidth, but of Hill and the others suggest the church has not addressed the racism issue squarely, regularly and completely at all levels then I have no idea what they expect. If so then their complaints look only like a partisan political gimmick.
fitzwdarcey on 11 Apr 2012 at 7:02 pm #
Romney did specifically speak about his feelings regarding when the LDS Church came out saying that black males would be able to receive the priesthood. He talked about how torn he was over the previous church policy and spoke about being in the car when he heard the announcement and pulling over in tears. The press mocked him for claiming to have cried.
Rockgod28 on 12 Apr 2012 at 7:13 am #
This is a losing issue for Team Obama if they try to paint Romney or the Mormon Church as racist.
President Hinckley and other past Church leaders have a addressed racial issues in the Church.
No official reason was given for the ban. There were opinions which again offically have been denounced which tried to explain to ban even by some who gave them just before 1978.
As for Romney himself he shatters the narrative of those that would say he would be beholden or obligated to follow whatever LDS headquarters say to do since he was an active participant with his father in the Civil Rights Movement.
The LDS Church held off on an official position because of political issues, not of race, because of communism (Liberation Theology) that attempted to weave itself into the movement.
So Team Obama would have a hard time proving the Mormon Church racist.
The false narrative that Mitt Romney cut off the Ron Paul support gains zero traction when played with the video of the Republicans actual response. His response to the question was much softer than the ‘sharp’ no that is reported.
Every attempt to paint or frame Mitt Romney as a racist or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as racist will fail. So where will that leave Team Obama?
Only able to attack Mitt Romney in class warfare which will only expose Obama’s weakness in the economy. I read that Obama’s team is walking a tight rope trying to stir up dirt yet to me they are already falling off the rope.
The question is which side are they going to fall down on. Indications say class warfare, but as the election gets closer desperation might set in as Democrats begin to grasp at anything to keep from free falling out of political power.