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Sleeping in EQ · 08-04-2008, 05:09 PM

MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization.

What think ye?

Levin · 08-04-2008, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization.

What think ye?

Ridiculous. Does your brother also believe that the Illuminati are alive and well and intent on destroying the Catholic Church and that the Masons control government, not to mention that the Rothschilds have the UN in a death grip?

SeattleUte · 08-04-2008, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization.

What think ye?

Yuck. Your BiL sounds like a real POS. Is his name DJ Ross?

Tex · 08-04-2008, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization.

What think ye?

Conspiracy theorist.

Sleeping in EQ · 08-04-2008, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Levin

Ridiculous. Does your brother also believe that the Illuminati are alive and well and intent on destroying the Catholic Church and that the Masons control government, not to mention that the Rothschilds have the UN in a death grip?

He has been known to quote the sequel to the National Treasure movie.

TripletDaddy · 08-04-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization.

What think ye?

The Church does absolutely nothing to help while Mitt is actually running for President....but now that he is totally out of the race, the Church jumps in full-bore and engages in lobbying, activism, and socially segregating behavior......to help McCain, no less.....in the extremely outside chance that Mitt also gets selected as the VP candidate.

Sleeping in EQ · 08-04-2008, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

The Church does absolutely nothing to help while Mitt is actually running for President....but now that he is totally out of the race, the Church jumps in full-bore and engages in lobbying, activism, and socially segregating behavior......to help McCain, no less.....in the extremely outside chance that Mitt also gets selected as the VP candidate.

He thinks the change of the guard at the top has something to do with this as well.

Hazzard · 08-04-2008, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

The Church does absolutely nothing to help while Mitt is actually running for President....but now that he is totally out of the race, the Church jumps in full-bore and engages in lobbying, activism, and socially segregating behavior......to help McCain, no less.....in the extremely outside chance that Mitt also gets selected as the VP candidate.

The Church is doing in 2008 exactly what it did in 2000, when Romney was not a VP candidate. I don't know why some on here seem to think that things are different now the Pres. Monson is the Prophet. It's the same thing the Church did when Pres. Hinckley was the Prophet.

TripletDaddy · 08-04-2008, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

He thinks the change of the guard at the top has something to do with this as well.

It is definitely possible, so I shouldnt come down too hard on the old boy....but it sounds a bit too MacGruber-ish.

The Church was already opposed to Prop 22 several years ago, so it would have been opposed to Prop 8 with or without a Romney VP slot at stake.

Tex · 08-04-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

He thinks the change of the guard at the top has something to do with this as well.

Now that is funny.

08-04-2008, 05:09 PM	#1
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Proposition 8 and Romney MY BiL, who lives in SoCal, is convinced that the Church's support of proposition 8 has everything to do with helping get McCain elected and encouraging Romney as a VP pick. MY BiL's thinking is that supporting prop 8 helps distance Romney from some of his mid-90s wishy-washiness on gay issues and sets the Church up to demonstrate that it is a values-voter powerhouse that rivals Dobson's organization. What think ye? __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.