Mitt Romney And His Mormon Church: Disturbing Realities

With Mitt Romney seemingly the likely Republican Presidential nominee, focus turns to his religious beliefs, as he would be the first Mormon President if he won.

The Mormons, a much persecuted religion in its less than 200 year history, is seen by mainstream Christians of all denominations as a cult, rather than a Christian sect, even though Mormons claim to be Christian. There is discontent about its polygamous past, and the fact that a radical separatist sect still practices polygamy in areas of Texas, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming. Its decision to get involved often in politics, rather than promote separation of church and state, also disturbs many.

But there are other more important issues.

The Mormon Church forbids any non Mormon from entering its temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

When Mitt Romney was married to Ann, his wife, she needed to be converted, but her parents were not allowed in the Mormon Temple for her marriage, and had to stay outside.

When Ann Romney’s father died in more recent times, he was converted to the Mormon faith after death without his permission, and despite the fact that he was a religious skeptic, in actuality a declared atheist.

This tendency to convert dead people has included Jews who died in the Holocaust, who unknown to their families, have been converted.

The Mormons keep detailed genealogical records on many millions of people around the world, useful in studying ancestry and family connections, but disturbing to many as intrusion, and wonderment about why they are gathering so much personal information on non Mormons.

The Mormon Church never allowed blacks in the church until suddenly in 1978, from on high in church leadership, and under a federal lawsuit on civil rights, magically they were finally allowed into the church as equals.

The Mormons, like all other religious groups, treat women as second class citizens in the church, and promote the traditional family role as a norm for women, who are not allowed leadership in the church and are expected to obey their husbands, and spend their life pleasing them in all possible ways.

Mormon women are encouraged to have large families and avoid using birth control of any kind.

The Mormon Church will disown any member who is homosexual, and the norm in most Mormon families is to do so, and the names of such people are officially banned from the Mormon Church records as if they never existed. The church led the fight against gay marriage and Proposition 8 in California in 2008, financing the attack openly.

While the Mormon Church has tended to support immigrants and work to promote citizenship for illegal immigrants, it is seen primarily as a practical matter, due to the widespread missionary movement of the church in Latin America.

The Mormon Church has been strongly anti labor oriented, in regards to union organization and workers rights, even before the recent anti labor crusade by conservative Republicans.

The Mormon Church takes a very conservative view on most issues, and most of its political arm are Republicans. although there are major exceptions such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, and his cousin, Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico.

These realities stated above are not pointed out to promote bias or discrimination, but to make the general public aware of the growing influence of the church in American life, much of its practices and agenda highly disturbing!

4 comments on “Mitt Romney And His Mormon Church: Disturbing Realities

  1. Suzanne March 22, 2012 6:06 pm

    There are many flaws in the “realities” that you have listed above. I won’t take time to go into all of them. But I will answer for one that has a very personal affect on me. I am a woman and I am a Mormon.
    You stated: “The Mormons, like all other religious groups, treat women as second class citizens in the church, and promote the traditional family role as a norm for women, who are not allowed leadership in the church and are expected to obey their husbands, and spend their life pleasing them in all possible ways.
    Mormon women are encouraged to have large families and avoid using birth control of any kind.”
    I am a daughter of God. I am not a second class citizen. Any Mormon woman that feels she is a second class citizen has been influenced by the culture that she lives in.
    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints does not preach or teach that women are second class citizens. We are equal partners with men in fulfilling our divinely appointed roles. My husband and I have a great marriage. We are best friends and we both have a say in what goes in the home. We talk and we communicate equally. This is the norm in the Mormon church. Anything else is considered wrong.
    Julie B. Beck is currently serving as the general Relief Society President in the church and holds a very esteemed and “powerful” is you want to use that term, position in the church.
    In every ward in the church, there is a bishop and a relief society (organization for women) president. They work together to make sure that the needs of each ward member are met. It is a beautiful, harmonious system.
    Because humans are involved, there are complications and things don’t always go smooth as silk, but with communication and compassion things are worked out.
    For your information, my husband and I chose to have 5 children and we currently use an IUD to prevent further pregnancies. The number of children is a personal decision between God and the couple.
    Children are an heritage of the Lord and are seen as a great gift from him.
    There are other issues with your “realities” as I have said. But if anyone really wants to know the truth, I suggest using primary sources, http://www.lds.org, http://www.mormon.org or talk to a Mormon or visit one of their services on Sunday. Do not stoop to using heresay to describe a group of people. That is very un-P.C. I’m surprised to find it here.

  2. Ronald March 22, 2012 6:33 pm

    Suzanne, I compliment you on your defense of the role of women in the Mormon Church. I found your explanation and defense very admirable and revealing on my part.

    However, on the other aspects of the faith mentioned in the post, the record is clear regarding policies and practices, and also what happened regarding Ann Romney and her marriage to Mitt, and the treatment of her dead father after death, who was an atheist and was converted without any indication of his desire to have that happen. And the same has happened to Holocaust and other Jews, and that is unacceptable, along with the history toward blacks, labor, gays and lesbians, and the refusal to allow non Mormons into their temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    I am not out to condemn any faith, and that was not what I did, but simply to reveal the truth and facts about the church, but I will stand corrected to some extent on the issue of women in the church, and I thank you for your explanation and response!

  3. Abby April 16, 2012 11:32 pm

    Apologists? The article actually did not say many of the things you claimed, but if you believe that a dutiful daughter should leave her parents outside of the church, while celebrating the marriage celebration with others, some sort of an apology should be made. Furthermore, what does the Bible say about such a child?

  4. Dave July 24, 2012 11:12 am

    Every point of this article is flawed. I don’t even know where to start. This is just ridiculous.

    Proxy temple work is in no way and indication of conversion. Please read 1 Corinthians 15 and the Book of Revelation.

    Women are not second class citizens by any means.

    There is no encouragement of large families nor is there any policy of avoiding birth control.

    There is absolutely no discussion on labor groups in the church. We are taught to be self relianant and that in itself sometimes is at odds with labor groups.

    Senator Mark Udall is not a Mormon, nor has he ever been associated himself the LDS church.

    Tom Udall is not a practicing mormon, just like his father Stew. He has always stated that he is proud of his mormon heritage, just like his father, and he has every reason to be proud of it.

    Just saying to get your facts straight before putting them on the web.

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