Text 28444, 100 rader
Skriven 2007-04-30 08:54:44 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 28443 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Patriots
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Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote:
 MG>>> THURSTON ACKERMAN -> LEE LOFASO wrote:
 LL>>>>> Hello Thurston,

 MG>>>>>>> IIRC Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate Christmas, birthdays or
 MG>>>>>>> any  religious holidays. I've never learned why they don't.

 SD>>>>>>> They also do not vote or show any signs of patriotism.

 LL>>>>>>> Mitt Romney is a danger to all patriotic Americans.  Can't have
 LL>>>>>>> any of them people be elected president.  Better to elect a true
 LL>>>>>>> American patriot as president, such as Hillary Clinton.  Or John
 LL>>>>>>> Kerry.  Or John Edwards.  Or Chris Dodd.  Or Wes Clark.  Or Bill
 LL>>>>>>> Richardson.  Or Al Sharpton.  Or just about any other Democrat.

 TA>>>>>> As a registered Democrat of Massachusetts I have to admit Mitt
 MG>>> Romney
 TA>>>>>> has been an excellant governor of the Commonwealth of
 MG>>> Massachusettes,
 TA>>>>>> and quite will quite likely be an equally excellant president of
 EH>> US.

 LL>>>>> I doubt he can get the Republican nomination, given that he is not
 LL>>>>> a Christian.  His main roadblock to getting the nomination will be
 MG>>> the
 LL>>>>> evangelicals, who will fight tooth and nail to keep him from
 EH>> winning.
 LL>>>>> He will also have problems getting support from other Christians,
 LL>>>>> whether Protestant or Catholic.

 TA>>>>>> BTW he is a devote Morman and not a Jehovah Witness (if that was
 EH>> the
 TA>>>>>> source of your negative concern 8-(

 LL>>>>> Romney is not a Christian.  And that will cause problems for him in
 LL>>>>> seeking his party's nomination.  However, if he does somehow
 MG>>> manage to
 LL>>>>> get the Republican nomination, he might have a chance to win the
 MG>>> general
 LL>>>>> election, depending on which candidate the Democrats choose to
 MG>>> nominate.
 LL>>>>> I mean, it is possible the Democrats might nominate a Muslim...

 TA>>>> I see no constitutional problem. What problem might that present an
 TA>>>> American voter ?

 MG>>> It is a well known fact that Mr. Romney is a Mormon, have we just
 MG> seen
 MG>>> Lee saying that Mormons aren't Christian?

 EH>> Yes, we have. Lee, along with several other loons on the left (and
 MG> some
 EH>> idiots on the right) make such a claim out of ignorance.

 EH>> We "Mormons" are more Christian than those "Christians" who pretend to
 EH>> know what "Mormons" believe.

 EH>> Our 13 Articles of Faith begin with:

 EH>> 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ,
 EH>> and in the Holy Ghost.

 EH>> If that isn't Christian, I don't know what is.

 EH>> And include:

 EH>> 11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the
 EH>> dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege,
 EH>> let them worship how, where, or what they may.

 EH>> If only other Christians would follow suit.

 MG> I hear you and agree, we've chatted about this before and just the other
 MG> day I asked Vern if he gets the same "not a *REAL* Christian line that
 MG> you do and Lee steps forward to volunteer an example. How long will it
 MG> be that he starts in on Vern?

Lee is a troll and will say most anything in an attempt to get someone to
reply.

Ed

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