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You know what? It's really not ironic in the slightest. There is nothing much more important to the average Mormon than family. To us, marital infidelity is considered one of the worst sins a person can commit.
If you were a Mormon, it wouldn't surprise you in the slightest.
Well if that's the case, this is a big problem. The Republican Party is a southern party before it's anything else, and he needs strong southern support to win the general election.
I don't know what's so bad about being a Mormon to southern voters (all Christian faiths are frauds to me....don't see why Latter Day Saints should be singled out for ridicule), but they need to get over it if they want to oust Obama.
That sounded wrong. I didn't mean to say it like that. What I was trying to say was that it's ironic that these evangelicals don't like him because he is a Mormon and because they are so big on their religion and "family values," yet the one they don't like because of religion has the strongest "family values" of them all.
I apologize if I offended you or any other Mormon.
I'm a big Romney supporter.
I don't particularly like being "discriminated against" for being Agnostic, so I understand what it's like to have others dislike your religious beliefs (or, in my case, the lack thereof).
What I find shocking is Christians discriminating against other Christians. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with such hatred from holier-than-thou Catholic and mainstream Protestant Christians who think you aren't Christian at all.
Whaaaaat? You mean bigotry actually exists on the right? Wow, that's a revelation.
Romney should convert to Christianity. Then he will be anointed the GOP nominee. That's all he needs to do. Reject Mormonism if you want to be president.
"In South Carolina, voters who said that religion matters a great deal to voted 9 percent for Mitt Romney and 43 percent for Gingrich. Among voters who said religion was not important, 42 percent voted for Romney. Let me repeat. 9 percent to 42 percent depending on the voter's religiosity. And the largest religious voting block in South Carolina is Evangelicals."
That is despicable. A Jim Crow religious litmus test. What SC may have built is the foundation for Obama's second term.
Clearly not all of them. Just the ones that are willing to support an amoral SOB like Newt Gingrich, especially those who voted for him so they didn't have to vote for the Mormon guy.
But I think a lot of them fell for one of Newton LeRoy's patented con jobs. They actually think he is a career conservative Republican when nothing could be further from the truth. Newton's was a moderate if ever there was one. He record says he's closer to being a Democrat than any Republican I've ever seen run for President.
Not doubt, they see him talking over everyone and yelling at people in debates and they're thinking, "This is the guy that'll beat Obama!" Those ones are complete idiots and unbelievably gullible, but they're not entirely bigoted nor hypocritical.
The majority of Evangelicals aren't the problem. It's the idiot minority. Apparently, in South Carolina that idiot minority is a lot bigger than most states. Just ask Miss South Caroline 2007. They don't have maps. We need to sent them some.
Seriously, when I heard Gingrich entered the race last summer I thought it was a joke!!
That is despicable. A Jim Crow religious litmus test. What SC may have built is the foundation for Obama's second term.
I agree that it's horrible. It's even worse given that Romney has better "family values" and has behaved in a far more "Christian" manner than Newt. I guess they don't really care about values after all...they just care about hating Mormons.
I don't agree that Newt is likely to be the nominee. I think he may just be experiencing a second surge as "flavor of the week." I'm concerned about Florida and I wasn't before, but I am not THAT surprised that Newt won SC.
I do agree Newt will not be the nominee, but he may wound MR enough to make a 2nd Obama term inevitable. I doubt the idiots who do compose most of the primary base will be smart enough to put 2 and 2 together afterwards.
Although, it should be noted, there is NO party registration in SC. Anyone can vote in any primary.
Is the title a broad brush? Does it apply to every Evangelical Republican? No. But I believe the broad brush applies to a whole lot of them.
In South Carolina, voters who said that religion matters a great deal to voted 9 percent for Mitt Romney and 43 percent for Gingrich. Among voters who said religion was not important, 42 percent voted for Romney. Let me repeat. 9 percent to 42 percent depending on the voter's religiosity. And the largest religious voting block in South Carolina is Evangelicals.
I heard a lot of excuses like "Newt has family values" and "Newt is more honest" to explain why they vote for him. Let's be honest -- it was code for Romney is a Mormon!!!!.
Newt got kicked out of Congress for ethics violations, and Newt his a serial cheater, who has treated his ex-wives like dirt. Yet now he is now the "values" candidate in this contest. On the radio today, I actually heard one voter as say he would rather vote for a serial adulterer than a Mormon. What a disgusting display of bigotry and hypocrisy due to blinding religious bias.
I agree and I am becoming more and more embarrassed to be both a Republican and a southerner. I will say that I grew up in the southern Baptist church and never saw this sort of bigotry against other religions very much. However, my own family was not like that and we were taught at home not to judge other people's religious followings.
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