Mormon church excommunicates man for being critical of Romney

[TaraJo]

What's really scary is that a man that is under the influence of this cult is so close to the highest political office in the nation.

In fairness, the same was said of Kennedy in the 60's...

Yep. That's one of the reasons this doesn't worry me too much. Every president in American history has belonged to the cult of Christianity; Romney just comes from a branch that isn't yet accepted by mainstream.

However, it does worry me how the Mormons are attempting to destroy the barrier between church and state. The amount they spent on prop 8 in California alone is evidence of this.

It also makes me wonder, what are they teaching students at BYU. Can you imagine the warped 'education' they're giving students who take a class in government there? Or American history? Are they going to teach the truth or are they going to teach the ultra-conservative party-platform?

[Jackalope]

Talking about a cult.

Is there a difference between a cult and a religion?

Political influence. That's the only meaningful difference I see.

[CapnAwesome]

No offense meant, but from that article it doesn't appear that they did excommunicate him, as your topic implies. It more seems like he is worried about being excommunicated or some such nonsense. Considering that Harry Reid is a mormon, I doubt that the mormon church is going about excommunicated people for being critical of Romney.

[Minimalist]

Um....it's a bit more than that.

On Sunday, Twede says his bishop, stake president, and two church executives brought him into Florida Mormon church offices in Orlando and interrogated him for nearly an hour about his writings, telling him, "Cease and desist, Brother Twede."

Mormon leaders have scheduled an excommunication "for apostasy" on Sept. 30

About the only thing that could save him is the election as these shitheads will not want to look like the cult-ridden scumbags they are until after the election.

[TaraJo]

Um....it's a bit more than that.

On Sunday, Twede says his bishop, stake president, and two church executives brought him into Florida Mormon church offices in Orlando and interrogated him for nearly an hour about his writings, telling him, "Cease and desist, Brother Twede."

Mormon leaders have scheduled an excommunication "for apostasy" on Sept. 30

About the only thing that could save him is the election as these shitheads will not want to look like the cult-ridden scumbags they are until after the election.

Even the election won't save him. They claim they give him a chance to defend himself but the reality is, they've already decided they're going to excommunicate him and the hearing is just for show.

However, there is one saving grace: they don't want to contradict themselves and they recently told their leadership that they need to be careful to keep religion out of politics.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/29...-politics/

If they want to get upset at him for criticizing Romney, it's hard to see how they're not keeping religion out of politics. If they're going to drum him out for talking publicly about Mormon topics that they aren't supposed to talk about in public, it doesn't have anything to do with politics and they're good. Me, I think they'll say they're excommunicating him for telling church secrets but they want to kick him out for questioning Romney.

[AtheistAmes]

Holy shit. That's all I can say, really.