The Tea Party is going to have to stop and think at some point, "Would we rather have a Democrat that we can make absurd accusations about being a Moslem as President, or would we rather own a President who is a Mormon and face adopting Mormons as Christians?"
Wow! What a diliemma these Tea Party Folks have created for themselves? Adopting a false prophet they have always renounced or accepting a reasonably competent President who professes their faith, expresses the message of their beloved Savior, and who has brought this nation out of one war their last leader lied them into and delivered the death of the infidel leader who brought the worst attack on the American homeland in its entire history.
It is not a dilemma for thinking Americans! President Obama has certainly earned the support of all Americans with his leadership in the last three and one-half years!
Barry Goldwater expressed the Problem that Republicans faced adopting Preachers as political leaders: They refuse to compromise in their beliefs!
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
~Barry Goldwater
The Republican Party has chosen to reject Compromise and that is a Rejection of Representative Democracy. The Republican Senate has determined that they will refuse to allow any Democratic initiative to pass the Senate. They have destroyed that institution with their misuse of the filibuster.
They should be called out and demanded to provide an answer. What is the alternative to Representative Democracy? If Two Parties cannot work toward a Compromise solution is Representative Democracy even possible? Does today's GOP prefer one-party rule? What makes their vision of the future any better than any other despotic regime?
There is a Mormon wing of the Tea Party Movement and there is an Evangelical Wing of the Tea Party Movement. The Mormon Wing of the Tea Party Movement is led by Glenn Beck and others like him:
The complaint from the religious right — which has promiscuously allied itself with Mormon leaders to oppose reproductive and gay rights (and civil rights in an earlier era) — is that the LDS church does not conform to the tenets of Christianity as they see it. Pastor Robert Jeffress, the man whose anti-Mormon crusading has now taken him onto late-night television and the opinion pages of The Washington Post, says he prefers a “committed Christian,” but doesn’t say why or what that precisely means.
Mormons may not share all of the tenets of Baptist or Methodist Christianity, but neither do Catholics or Episcopalians, yet fundamentalist evangelicals like Jeffress don’t seem to worry much about their role in public life. On issues that implicate morality, sexuality and family, the Mormons are equally “conservative” and consider themselves to be Christians, too. They officially abandoned polygamy many years ago — and they seem to succeed more consistently in adhering to what they preach than many of their more orthodox brethren, if surveys of divorce, addiction and teen pregnancy are accurate.
Those conservative principles, along with a history of extremist positions adopted by the Mormon hierarchy, have encouraged the perception of the LDS church as an ideological bulwark of the far right. Mormon leaders long encouraged associations with fringe elements in American politics, such as the John Birch Society, which still wields influence in the tea party movement today. And the ultra-craziness of Glenn Beck, himself a Mormon and a promoter of wacky LDS political theorists, has not improved the church’s political profile.
http://www.battlegroundblog.com/...
Mormons are more conservative than the general public on a variety of political, social and moral issues. Compared with the population as a whole, Mormons are more Republican in their party affiliation and conservative in their political ideology. They have a less favorable view of Barack Obama than non-Mormons, and they hold more conservative views than the general public on issues such as the size of government, abortion and homosexuality. On questions of morality, Mormons are more likely than others to say that extramarital sex and drinking alcohol are morally wrong.
http://www.pewforum.org/...