Mitt Romney & John McCain

HeadBanger · 05-09-2008, 09:11 PM

Is a clear demonstration of how racist and xenophobic many members of the this forum are. People here keep indirectly accusing Obama of being a racist and a member of religious organizations that do not have the best interests of the country in mind. However, no one ever complained about Mitt Romney and his racist, sexist (no, I don't care), religion:

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Race Problems -- As They Affect The Church
Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954.

God has commanded Israel not to intermarry. To go against this commandment of God would be in sin. Those who willfully sin with their eyes open to this wrong will not be surprised to find that they will be separated from the presence of God in the world to come. This is spiritual death....

The reason that one would lose his blessings by marrying a Negro is due to the restriction placed upon them. "No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood" (Brigham Young). It does not matter if they are one-sixth Negro or one-hundred and sixth, the curse of no Priesthood is the same. If an individual who is entitled to the Priesthood marries a Negro, the Lord has decreed that only spirits who are not eligible for the Priesthood will come to that marriage as children. To intermarry with a Negro is to forfeit a "Nation of Priesthood holders"....

The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent, and then, of course, they have been persuaded by some of the arguments that have been put forth....We who teach in the Church certainly must have our feet on the ground and not to be led astray by the philosophies of men on this subject....

I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, "First we pity, then endure, then embrace"....

Now let's talk about segregation again for a few moments. Was segregation a wrong principle? When the Lord chose the nations to which the spirits were to come, determining that some would be Japanese and some would be Chinese and some Negroes and some Americans, He engaged in an act of segregation....

When he told Enoch not preach the gospel to the descendants of Cain who were black, the Lord engaged in segregation. When He cursed the descendants of Cain as to the Priesthood, He engaged in segregation....

Who placed the Negroes originally in darkest Africa? Was it some man, or was it God? And when He placed them there, He segregated them....

Mormon racism in perspective

FoxTrot9R · 05-09-2008, 09:18 PM

Did Mitt write this? He should be drawn and quartered...

HeadBanger · 05-09-2008, 09:32 PM

John McCain in 2000:

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Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals - February 28, 2000

John McCain 2008:

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Six years after labeling the Rev. Jerry Falwell one of the political "agents of intolerance," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered the commencement address Saturday at Falwell's Liberty University, and vigorously defended his support for the war in Iraq while saying that opponents have a moral duty to challenge the wisdom of a conflict that has exacted a huge toll on the nation.

McCain's presence on the campus here was as remarkable as what he had to tell the graduating class of 2006, given his clashes with religious conservatives during his 2000 campaign for president. His appearance continued a rapprochement that has been underway for months with a critical constituency in the Republican Party as McCain prepares for another possible campaign in 2008.

McCain Reconnects With Liberty University

HeadBanger · 05-09-2008, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by FoxTrot9R

Did Mitt write this? He should be drawn and quartered...

No, those were quotes from the "founding fathers" of the Mormon Church.

Leagon · 05-09-2008, 09:41 PM

McCain has sold out and it makes me truly, truly sad.

I hope that (well, I hope he doesn't get elected, but if he does) all this stuff in this campaign was a brilliant political ploy and that he'll go back to the old (young?) McCain.

HeadBanger · 05-09-2008, 09:48 PM

The only issues that people have to use against Obama, are the ones that every other candidate is getting a pass on.

Throatpoker · 05-09-2008, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by HeadBanger

The only issues that people have to use against Obama, are the ones that every other candidate is getting a pass on.

I couldn't have said it better, so QFT, even if I'm not a fan of Obama.

bubba · 05-09-2008, 10:02 PM

and where does it say he wants to destroy black people

ThRiLl · 05-10-2008, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by HeadBanger

The only issues that people have to use against Obama, are the ones that every other candidate is getting a pass on.

How is this hard to understand? I am a white male, I am only really concerned about candidates that are racist against white males.

IronCage** · 05-10-2008, 01:05 AM

Romney is not the republican nominee for presidency. He also said that there are many aspects of the Mormon church that he doesn't agree with.

Falwell is not the spiritual adviser nor the campaign adviser for John McCain. You DO know Wright was also a campaign adviser for Barak Hussein, right?

Everyone knows who McCain is, his history and what he stands for. No one knows anything about Barak other than what he's been telling us about him which is not much. He even doesn't like people to know his middle name and his Muslim upbringing for God's sake. And he wants the highest office in the world.