Mitt Romney is the closest a Mormon has ever gotten to the presidency in the history of this great country. Which isn’t really very surprising, considering that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been around for less time than the United States of America.
As a Bible-thumping Christian, I’m often asked about how I feel about a Mormon in the White House. My answer is always the same … I’m sorry, what?
I don’t really care what faith our president chooses to practice, so long as it doesn’t interfere with his leadership of the nation. Baptist, Mormon, Catholic, Jewish, Agnostic … it does it matter, so long as the leader of our country enacts sane fiscal policies and is a good Commander in Chief.
However, I do take issue when someone running for president has spent 20 years worshipping in the presence of, and at the hand of, a man that would DAMN AMERICA.
Jeremiah Wright preached horrible messages about God damning America, and he spread race-baiting lies for two decades while the Obama’s sat in his congregation. This is, as Vice President Joe Biden would say, “A big f*cking deal.” Let me repeat: The President of the United States of America sat in the congregation of a man that would shout, “God DAMN America!” for twenty years before running for president and trying to buy his silence.
Therefore I dare anyone to challenge Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith against Barack Obama’s attendance in Jeremiah Wright’s church. The president should love his country, not curse it. While we’re at it, a president and his family should also be proud of their country. But I digress.
The real story of Jeremiah Wright is that fact that the media paid no attention to him in the 2008 election cycle. I mean really… God DAMN America? How did we ever elect a president that attended a church for 20 years where the pastor damned America?
The media needs to pay better attention to what’s going on with our candidates. It is supposed to be the fourth branch of government, operating freely to keep citizens informed and the government in check. What happens when the press has a slobbering love affair with a particular candidate? We get someone in the Whitehouse that kicked off his political career in a domestic terrorist’s living room, thinks Saul Alinsky was super awesome, and worshipped in a church for two decades with a pastor that damned America.
So no, I’m not concerned about a Mormon in the Whitehouse. I’m more concerned with the guy that’s already there.
This post is part of a weekly conversation with our Moms Matter 2012 political bloggers. To see the original question and what the other writers have to say, read Does Jeremiah Wright Matter in This Election?
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Comments 45
When a "preacher" shrieks "Godd**m America!!!" from a pulpit -- it gets my attention & sticks in my mind.
POTUS (self-admitted) listened to this guy, called him his mentor, dedicated a book to him, was married by him, had his kids baptized by him, sat in the pews of this church for 20 years, absorbing the divisive, racist messages...
Wright doesn't preach "America". Rather "AmeriKKKa!"
Sad. Not a good sign.
Where is the "content of character" MLK talked about?
Did you recycle this blog from 2009 and just do a find and replace for Mcain/Romney? This was straw grasping then and it's straw grasping now. I thought that you guys had so many real issues to hate Obama for, why are you wasting so much time on this nonsense? Must not be much to complain about.
SuzyBarno: " I still think Obama won because he is HALF black. People seem to forget that he is also half white. Now that America has that off their backs, now maybe they will look at the real issues of what the candidates have plans about and vote."
You bring up a great point: after all, if George Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic", it follows that Obama is a "White Black"
It's hilarious (but, ultimately, very sad) how the "P.C." crowd and race-baiters like Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, etc., et al., keep harping on Americans' divisions, over and over, completely dedicated to dividing us into subsets. As a result, we end up talking about how Zimmerman is a "white hispanic" and how obama is a "white black".
Could the Left give it a rest, finally? We are ALL Americans. Again, paraphrasing what MLK said (and it should and will resonate through the ages): "Don't judge by the color of skin, but by content of character." THAT man was a "leader", something sorely lacking in today's political scene, and something which Obama is totally unfamiliar with.
THIS (MLK's vision) is how America was built. Not on Democrat/Leftist/Alinsky idealogy that seeks to divide us, rather than unite us. Something that white/black guy campaigned on in 2007/2008. Oops! I guess he just forgot. Or maybe never meant it in the first place.
...so long as he isn't Muslim, right Jenny? Or Buddhist... Or Hindu.... Or Shinto... I notice how you didn't mention anything that wasn't God or Jesus-focused. You basically listed a bunch of religions that derive from the same place (even Judaism) - a place with which you agree. So of course you're writing from a completely unbiased point of view.
And for the record, I pay attention when a preacher tells me gays should be killed or a presidential candidate tells me I can't have ownership of my own vagina.