Mitt Romney Didn't Serve In Military, But Many Mormons Do
According to Pentagon records, nearly 18,200 military service members identified themselves as belonging to the Mormon Church as of March, about 1.3 percent of the nearly 1.4 million active-duty personnel. Around 2 percent of the U.S. population ...www.huffingtonpost.com
The Choice: Mormon Missionary Romney Or Community Organizer Obama
Romney has said his experience in France deepened his faith in Jesus Christ, but it not-so-incidentally enabled him to avoid the draft as well.www.huffingtonpost.com
Romney AWOL: Not Fit to Serve as Commander in Chief
Whoopi Goldberg, on the "The View" on ABC, tried to trap Ann Romney with a "gotcha" question on Mormonism and military service. Ann Romney had to correct Goldberg on the Mormon faith's view of military service. Goldberg wrongly said that service in the ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Going on Mormon Mission Does Not Equal Military Service
I thought I had heard it all from the Romney/Ryan team. Then Ann Romney went on The View. Whoopie Goldberg may not have been "nice" in her question regarding Mitt's military service or lack of it but for Ms. Romney to suggest that going on mission for ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Whoopi's "gotcha" fails big--Ann Romney answers military service questions
(Similarly, non-Mormons Bill Clinton and Barack Obama never served in the military either.) Mormons have served honorably in all of America's wars since the Church was founded in 1830.www.examiner.com
Living History: Tartar, the war horse with nine lives
He entered military service in 1857, when drafted to be part of the U.S. Army expedition to put down the Mormon rebellion in Utah. Signed on in Leavenworth, Kansas territory, to pull caissons and wagons, something about the horse's quality spoke to Sgt.www.sltrib.com
Neoconservative Jingoism Plus Mormon Delusion Equals Perpetual War
... military service, tax shelters, investing in Chinese sweat shops and a stint as a missionary in France, comes from the fact that to be a good Mormon one has to be jingoistic and combative about foreign policy. So if he's elected let's pray Romney ...www.alternet.org
Mitt Romney: Disgrace to Mormonism
The similarities between Bellamy's collective commonwealth and the Mormon ideal of "consecrated" community - as well his "Industrial Army" for organizing production and distribution, and the semi-military organization of Young's Deseret - have ...www.salon.com
The Case of the Mormon Historian
Quinn had spent three years in the military in the late '60s, working in counterintelligence. "I know how to avoid people I didn't want to be in contact with," he says.www.slate.com
The Mountain Meadows Massacre Revisited
In the wake of multiple reports of Mormon disloyalty, President James Buchanan had sent one-fifth of the nation's army to assert federal authority over Utah affairs. For many Mormons, the approaching Utah Expedition summoned up memories of the eastern ...www.huffingtonpost.com
A Mormon at War
It turns out to link to a story on Realclearpolitics.com about how the actress Whoopi Goldberg was attempting a "gotcha" on Governor Romney's wife, Ann Romney, in respect of Mormons and military service. Ms. Goldberg angled into the subject by saying ...www.nysun.com
Mitt Romney, Neoconservatism, and the Book of Mormon
For example, several chapters in the Book of Alma describe in great detail a series of military conflicts between the two tribes.www.huffingtonpost.com
Billy Graham site removes Mormon 'cult' reference after Romney meeting
Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham on Thursday at the elder Graham's mountaintop retreat, a reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. In a section of the website called Billy ...religion.blogs.cnn.com
Mormon missionary applications surge after age rules lowered
Some observers say they wonder if the faith was also acting in part to keep young people from drifting away from church life at a time when they have many other choices, including college, military service, marriage or work. "I suspect it's much harder ...www.torontosun.com
Ann Romney Corrects Whoopi Goldberg's False Claim About Mormonism ...
Tim Graham pointed out earlier on Thursday how Whoopi Goldberg forwarded a misunderstanding on ABC's The View during an interview of Ann Romney - that Mormonism "doesn't allow you to go fight" in the military. Mrs. Romney corrected this false ...newsbusters.org
Ann Romney corrects Whoopi Goldberg on LDS
Ann Romney corrected Whoopi Goldberg about military service and the Mormon faith after being pressed by "The View" co-host during Thursday's show.www.politico.com
The Missionary Equivalent of Military Service
In response, Mrs. Romney equated Mormon missionary work to military service. Though I would imagine there to be some risk in proselytizing about one's beliefs, I doubt that many Mormon missionaries have been killed, or injured, or suffer from PTSD, are ...www.opednews.com
Mitt and Ann Romney speak on LDS faith Thursday
Just moments after Ann joined the five hosts of "The View" - Barbara Walters, Whoppi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd - she was questioned about restrictions Goldberg assumed the LDS Church had regarding military ...www.deseretnews.com
New Mormon bishop in Spokane has controversial past
New Mormon bishop in Spokane has controversial past. The psychologist who helped develop military-interrogation techniques that include sleep deprivation and waterboarding has been appointed to the church position.seattletimes.com
Mormonism off Graham's cult list--Obama going indoors--11 new ads--Scott ...
BILLY GRAHAM'S ASSOCIATION REMOVES MORMONISM FROM LIST OF CULTS: "The election-year embrace of Mitt Romney by some evangelical Christians now borders on a bear hug, given a series of moves by Billy Graham and his family that appear to say it's OK ...www.politico.com
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