A Mormon President

I don't believe Mitt Romney is qualified to be President of the United States of America because of his religion. I don't believe in a religious requirement for the highest office in the land but by the same token that person's religion shouldn't teach that some people aren't as worthy as others because of the color of their skin and that dark skin is a curse leveled by God.

Mormons can't use the excuse that it was just the way things were in an earlier time, they can't say that everyone suffered the same misconceptions, and they can't shirk from their past.  They can't do these things because the one true precept of the Mormon faith is that the Church is guided by a Prophet chosen of God and advised by a Quorum of Twelve Apostles who all get direct council and revelation from the Lord, the Heavenly Father, and the Holy Ghost. Direct revelation, direct instruction, direct from God. If one believes this, and Mitt Romney professes to, then one has to accept statements by men who speak with God as words that represent God's current feelings and revelation.

If however, you're willing to justify these words as the statements of men with faults, then you are willfully disregarding these simple articles of faith that every Mormon child must memorize.

 

• We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.

• We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.

• We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.

• We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

We were taught revelation in the Church – taught that every word coming from the mouth of the Prophet is the word of God.  We were taught that while man has faults and failings, that God does not.  God is perfect and everything is part of His plan. Every word Joseph Smith spoke and wrote down, and every word of Brigham Young were words of God, Gospel for the Church, direct revelation to Mankind for the first time in almost two millennium.

Mitt Romney really has to answer this question:  Are people with brown skin cursed by God for cowardice and dishonor, forced to live in the line of Cain and undeserving of equality in life and in the afterlife?

That answer digs right to the heart of Romney's religion, because if he splits from the Church, then he acknowledges that Mormon Prophets and Apostles are not in contact with God and that means that it's not the True Gospel of Jesus Christ restored to the Earth by direct revelation.  If he answers with his church, then he can't represent the millions of non-white people in this nation. 

The question is fair game.  It needs to be asked, and he needs to be prevented from becoming President of the United States of America.

CV Rick

(what follows are a sample of direct quotations from Mormon leaders)

 

1. August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"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.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'...."

2. Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson remarking on the civil rights movement, "The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced.First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

3. General Authority Bruce R McConkie said, "The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

“The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings" (Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

4. Apostle Mark E Petersen, “If the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory.”

5. Brigham Young, second Prophet of the Church, “Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so.”

6. Brigham Young again, "You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race -- that they should be the 'servants of servants;' and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree."

7. Bruce McConkie, "Though he was a rebel and an associate of Lucifer in pre-existence, ...Cain managed to attain the privilege of mortal birth.... he came out in open rebellion, fought God, worshiped Lucifer, and slew Abel.... as a result of his rebellion, Cain was cursed with a dark skin; he became the father of the negroes, and those spirits who are not worthy to receive the priesthood are born through his lineage."

Comments

[Success Warrior]

I saw an interview with Hinckley who said that Brigham Young interpreted things wrong.

I'm with you. If these guys are having one-on-one meetings with Jesus in the temples, how do you interpret it wrong? You would think in the next meeting, Jesus would say, "You must have misheard me, what I meant was . . ."

He should probably be president though because God told the Mormons that everything in America was theirs for the taking, and killing and stealing from non-Mormons was okay, because they were just taking back was rightfully theirs. Maybe the Mormons will finally own the country.

[CV Rick]

Oh, that's right. This is the promised land and will be delivered to the Mormons after Jesus comes again in the great big war that destroys the earth (errr, I mean cleanses it with fire).

[Success Warrior]

It was promised to them from the beginning. Joseph Smith used to steal land and property from people in the name of the Mormons. Anyone who resisted too much was killed but it wasn't a sin because it all belonged to the Mormons in the first place. So said God.

[CV Rick]

I'm getting the feeling here that you doubt the motives and divinity of Joseph Smith. Heathen.

[Success Warrior]

I don't doubt his motives. The guy wanted power and sex and he got both until he was killed.

Divinity, maybe that too, as long as you're talking about being a nutty, fluffy, white substance.