From Pensito:

In his run for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has made it clear that he'll do or say whatever it takes to appeal to his party's Troglodyte base.

He has flip-flopped on key social issues including abortion and gay rights, both of which he supported when he ran for governor in 2001 - and both of which he did 180s on, after he was elected.

When Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriages in 2004, Gov. Romney made a name for himself in national conservative circles as a champion of traditional marriage by rabidly opposing legalization every step of the way as it moved through the legislature and the courts.

But in 2008, Romney will face a challenge among cave dwelling primary voters: He's a Mormon, a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, which many evangelical types consider to be a satanic polygamist cult.

But hold onto your hat - not only is Mitt Romney a member of the LDS, his great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, had five wives. That's two more than Bill Paxton has on "Big Love."

I lived for six months in Salt Lake City, and even attended Church with some of my Mormon friends there.
To be honest, I formed a very positive opinion of the people, and saw nothing in their church services that disturbed me. In fact, I have had a positive opinion of the LDS church since then (1993), but all that has changed after reading this book, and several others.
I'm sorry but I cant have much respect for a religion that was founded (according to several of the books I have read), by a con man, and which was popularized by a Brute, Con Man and serial polygamist, who probably at minimum encouraged, and possibly even ordered, one of the greatest and most fiendish atrocities ever committed by one group of Americans, against another.

Not to mention a religion that believes God lives on another planet, in a galaxy far, far away, and that all good Mormons will become "Gods...."

Are you weirded out yet? You want someone who believes that kind of thing to Lead our Country? And when was it that they acknowledged Black People as being worthy of the priesthood? 1978? Yeah thats right... Before that, we were simply the sons of Cain, dumb and black and "not lovely." Whatever the hell that means.

I still consider many of the people I met in Salt Lake City to be good people, friends. But the religion is twisted.

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