GOP insanity

Just going to share an exchange from Facebook. Names are hidden to protect the identity of the people who commented:

Moi: The GOP race is THE most entertaining thing on the planet. Rick Perry with the major crash and burn moment and the unfortunately named rock at the hunting lodge dropped him in the polls. Michelle Bachmann is just Michelle Bachmann and has been pronounced dead. Herman Cain's increasing list of indiscretions (to be polite) has only been outdone by his complete brain freeze about Libya and then there's Newt Gingrich with his problems too many to list. So one asks oneself... "Self?? Where is Mitt Romney? A flip flopping Mormon is worse that all if the above??? Oh, dear...."


Female friend: We will disagree on this, but I think learning by experience is not flip flopping. I think some things are turned


into negatives when the are really positives. I am not speaking on actual events in some cases, but in general ones.


What I thought: YOU disagree because I'm talkingWhat I said: But he's behind in the polls... WHY??? O_o That's so insane :


What I said: But he's behind in the polls... WHY??? O_o That's so insane :

Male friend: the world unfortunately will not vote in a Mormon we are too weird in their view,but a balck man from africa is ok to be our president hmmmm

That's not possible. You have to be an American citizen to run for President of the US.Moi (note the sarcasm): That's not possible. You have to be an American citizen to run for President of the US.

Moi pretending I'm stupid so these people comprehend me.. Or do they???: Ohhhh you mean Obama!!! LOL! I've campaigned for him for years. Only weird racist birthers believe that old story.

So, according to the last commenter on my status, people think we're weird but we aren't. We are stupid and racist.. Yeah dude, don't help me!!

Politics and Religious Intolerance

Poor Jon Huntsman he's found himself the target of many Mormons thanks to his answer about his membership in the Mormon church asked by Melinda Henneberger. This is the part of the interview that has members in an uproar.

And as for whether or not Huntsman still belongs to the Church of Latter-day Saints, I know less than I did before I asked him. ("I'm a very spiritual person," as opposed to a religious one, he says, "and proud of my Mormon roots." Roots? That makes it sound as if you're not a member anymore. Are you? "That's tough to define," he says. "There are varying degrees. I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.")

I've been more sympathetic than most (of course, I'm liberal)and I live in Utah. Idaho, parts of Arizona and Nevada are the same. I think our rural areas fall into a twisted dogma that can be a caricature of what the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ truly is intended to be as restored by Joseph Smith. There was a question that made it's way to facebook "How would YOU answer the question in Huntsman's position?" This was my answer:

I think he did answer it well. Now days being Mormon IS hard to define. All around me I see people who find things in shade of black and white and I'm not just talking about racists. I'm often surprised that people don't stumble in testimony meeting and say that they know that Glenn Beck is the true prophet. I see little tolerance and a lot of judgement. More people in my area identify with the Tea Party. THAT'S religious to them. It's not an easy question and honestly it's practically political suicide.

Then a guy posted the most EXCELLENT OP ED:
Some LDS Conservatives Worship Political Dogma

The real question is, have you always been so comfortable with your actions that you are okay with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints to be judged by YOUR actions?