When I was listening to the Evening News tonight, a few South Carolinians were saying they were not going to vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon and the Mormons are non-Christians and a cult.

The hard-core Evangelicals are having a hard time in South Carolina with the possibility of having to vote for a Mormon or a Catholic.

You would think that in the 21st century that those beliefs would be extinct.

This is from 2008 election cycle, but it still applies.

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Originally Posted by buggyone

When I was listening to the Evening News tonight, a few South Carolinians were saying they were not going to vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon and the Mormons are non-Christians and a cult.

The hard-core Evangelicals are having a hard time in South Carolina with the possibility of having to vote for a Mormon or a Catholic.

You would think that in the 21st century that those beliefs would be extinct.

Do you have well researched data to support your characterizations or is this simply bigotry?

When in the voting booth there will be a vote cast for Obama or Romney....not a black or a Mormon.

The issue of whether a Morman can win is no more of a challenge for Romney than whether a black could win was for Obama.

You can do your part by getting your friends and family out to vote to help make the election truly representative of what America wants. Give them hell if they toss the argument they do not like either candidate and are not voting.
That is just plain senseless, school yard babbling.

btk

No, I would not say that the evangelicals in South Carolina who are opposed to voting for a Mormon are bigots. I would say they are intolerant of those who are not in their faith.

The Lt. Gov. of South Carolina, Andre Bauer, is a good example of a bigot, in my viewpoint. The following quote of his demonstrates this:

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.

Now, that is an example of a South Carolina bigot.

Buggy, what are the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist et al other Protestant churches views on Mormonism? Are you just realizing that most Christian churches don't recognize The Church of Latter Day Saints as a Christian church? It isn't just a South Carolina view, my friend. It is found around the world.

Originally Posted by buggyone

No, I would not say that the evangelicals in South Carolina who are opposed to voting for a Mormon are bigots. I would say they are intolerant of those who are not in their faith.

The Lt. Gov. of South Carolina, Andre Bauer, is a good example of a bigot, in my viewpoint. The following quote of his demonstrates this:

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.

Now, that is an example of a South Carolina bigot.

Buggyone it would be difficult to defend Bauer. However not everyone who has an adverse opinion of someone is a bigot. some folks don't like other folks because of their mannerism, philosophy, actions which conflict with their views criminal or otherwise. It does not make them bigots.

My concern here is that some folks take for granted or to boost their agument that if something adverse is said about a person, especially a minority then they are bigots (political correctness) I'm just saying

I am Lutheran. Lutherans, as I understand, do not see Mormons as Christians and a Mormon would have to be baptized if they were to become a Lutheran - not "re-baptized". I understand that Mormons see the Holy Trinity as separate dietys and not as 3-in-one.

Originally Posted by buggyone

I am Lutheran. Lutherans, as I understand, do not see Mormons as Christians and a Mormon would have to be baptized if they were to become a Lutheran - not "re-baptized". I understand that Mormons see the Holy Trinity as separate dietys and not as 3-in-one.

I happen to agree with your basic premise. Mormons don't like catholics. I was reared catholic. I was born one county away from where Mormonism began and visted there more than once. Our state history books covered the state history associated with its beginnings. It had been stated that Joseph smith populated half of this county. It doesn't make me a bigot it only means that I am an unlikely convert for them

I just see this thread as just one more liberal Democrat trying to pigeon hole people and divide the classes.

The most self indentified "liberal" among us are the ones who seem the most "class conscious" and "race conscious" and "religion conscious".

It is and was always so.

Richie, I have no idea of what you are saying about me. I only posted what I heard on the evening news about the evangelicals in South Carolina and their viewpoint on Mormons and the possibility of voting for either a Mormon or a Catholic.

To me, it makes no difference what religion a President is. President Obama does not seem to go to church services on Sunday but still seems to be a moral man.

I would have hoped religion would not be a factor in a Presidential election but with evangelicals pushing their agendas, that is definitely not the case.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

I just see this thread as just one more liberal Democrat trying to pigeon hole people and divide the classes.

The most self indentified "liberal" among us are the ones who seem the most "class conscious" and "race conscious" and "religion conscious".

It is and was always so.

As I recall, it was the republicans that made such an issue about JFK's catholicisim and are making such as issue about President Obama's former pastor. And it's the republican evangelicals that are uniting against Mitt Romney.

Originally Posted by janmcn

As I recall, it was the republicans that made such an issue about JFK's catholicisim and are making such as issue about President Obama's former pastor. And it's the republican evangelicals that are uniting against Mitt Romney.

I think you are guilty of a little historical revisionism. There were many at the time who doubted that JFK could win the Democrat Primary. That wasn't a problem about Republican's. There was no "Republican" problem here, there was a perceived Catholic bias problem across the board.

Originally Posted by buggyone

Richie, I have no idea of what you are saying about me. I only posted what I heard on the evening news about the evangelicals in South Carolina and their viewpoint on Mormons and the possibility of voting for either a Mormon or a Catholic.

To me, it makes no difference what religion a President is. President Obama does not seem to go to church services on Sunday but still seems to be a moral man.

I would have hoped religion would not be a factor in a Presidential election but with evangelicals pushing their agendas, that is definitely not the case.

I'm sorry if it seems I'm picking on you. I mean to pick on all "liberals" and you just got caught in the "tide" of my thoughts.

All the class conscious ideas of late emanate from the left, and that's just a fact.

Yes, it did seem you singled me out as the only elitist left winger commie pinko with radical ideas. I will let you buy me an ice-cold Yeungling at the watering hole to make up for that iconoclastic representation.