Sunday, October 9, 2011

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney of the republican contenders has reassured America that he is in fact a part of the Mormon religion. Romney is scheduled to make a speech on Thursday at college station in Texas. Romney understands that faith and religion is a big part of America’s tradition and he plans on sharing his views and religion to America. Although there is no legal law holding a candidate back from running for president, there are many firm standing republican Christians who are a big part of the election process and the GOP. Romney is trying to point out significant similarities between Mormonism and Catholicism such as the disproval of same sex marriage and abortion.
In a CNN opinion research corp. it was found that about 50% of Americans consider Mormonism to be the same as Christianity, while 41% disagreed. 19% are unlikely to vote for a candidate of Mormon belief while 17% don’t believe that Mormon faith would be an issue or a deciding factor in their vote.
On Friday a pastor from Texas shared some combative views his audience.
The pastor named Robert Jeffress shared to the reporters that no republicans should vote for Mitt Romney. The pastor urges republican voters to side with Rick Perry. The pastor discourages anyone to vote for Mitt Romney for the simple fact that he’s a Mormon, “and described the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a ‘cult.".
Michael Purdy, a announcer for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, did not comment back to Robert Jeffress controversial comment but he did say "But those who want to understand the centrality of Christ to our faith can learn more about us and what we believe by going to mormon.org,"
Mitt Romney has unfortunately pushed away some of his potential voters by sharing his Mormon faith with America. There are some people who believe that Romney is a well rounded man with good values and morals but aren’t happy with his Mormon faith. These potential supporters are now leaning towards Rick Perry for the republican nomination. For supporters like this religion is a big deciding factor of their vote. They will only choose a firm Christian follower. In the same manner, the Southern Baptist Convention branded Mormonism as a “cult”. The Southern Baptist Convention have their own website in which they listed Mormonism under the “New Religions and Cults” tab.
Rick Perry on the other hand expresses that he does not believe that Mormonism is a cult. He doesn’t agree with some of the views and criticism that some of his supporters do.
During the election Mitt Romney hasn’t hid his religion but he certainly hasn’t been very open to talk about it until recently. In plain view Mormonism is like Christianity but Mormonism has gotten a bad reputation because of their past polygamy beliefs. Polygamy is a concept which stands for a marriage with multiple partners. In fact today polygamy isn’t practiced as much as they use to practice it of not at all.

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