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Mormon Church to excommunicate Mitt Romney critic

Posted: Sep 21, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/david-twede-mitt-romney_n_1903226.html

So much for the mormon church staying out of politics.

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Doesn't surprise me... - SK1

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I saw similar things quite often when I lived amongst a high Mormon population. They take care of their own, but they'll turn on you in a heartbeat if you cross them.

huffington post - grain of salt - nm

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I am on forum - anonmormon

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1) Huffington Post simple republished a Daily Beast article.
2) I am on a forum with the guy this is happening to. Very real.

Big deal... - I think the Catholics

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would excommunicate you if you were pro choice.

or if you married a Protestant even back in the '60s - backwards typist

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I don't doubt you or the story - just the spin that

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Huffington Post and Daily Beast put on it. Grain of salt for both!

Yes, because we all know that... - anon

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anything that doesn't come from Fox News or Breitbart or some other far-right blog is "spin" or "untrue."

Yep. Consider the source. - sm

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Trust HuffPo & Daily Beast? Your prerogative. I don't. My prerogative.

Here is a link to the blog by David Twede the person...sm - VTMT

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in question. It is one of those blogs that reads from the bottom up rather than the top down. (I hate that.) It is very interesting as is the entire mormanthink.com site.

The Mormon church is a very big donor to politics. - As for this issue--their business. SM

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All Mormons know that being a Mormon means toeing a whole bunch of lines. It's part of the package they believe in and living that life a big part of who they are. We're not exactly talking Unitarianism here. :)

I'm suspicious of how they found this guy, though. This very large church has an intelligence gathering office (not called that), and my guess would be some professional-level computer tracking. They're not stupid, and having their church mainstreamed via election of a Mormon president is an understandably very big deal.

And this guy's potentially queering their chances in swing-state Florida, of all places! Really, it could make the start of a good suspense movie with the hero being chased around the planet by people determined to silence him. We identify the assassins before the poor hero when we glimpse their underwear. :)

Whoops--conspiracy people, I'm joking here.

Lucky for us - we won't have

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a Mormon president, at least this time around.

Ah, I'm thinking our country might benefit from a little - touch of Mormon discipline. Just

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don't like to think how it might be encouraged. I'm a little old for tough "love" these days.

I'm sure they'll be happy - to baptize you and

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your entire family after you're dead.

Baptize me if you will -

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As long as they don't duck me against my will, they can baptize someone in proxy for me and every relative I have. I don't think that will help me or hurt me (but then I don't believe baptism to be essential anyway), so what is your point? Baptism in proxy for the dead is a religious belief I do not share. I can pretty sure bet I can find something in all religions that I disagree with.

I think it was a joke. - :) NM

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Lucky for us we won't know that until November - annieb - nm

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Pompous much?

Too funny. What exactly is magic - underwear? Is that what SM

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Mormons call it or is that a joke? Is is underwear that has been blessed?

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