Mormonism is a "cult" are we ready for that?!?!?!

It is detrimental to all Evangelical Christians that so many within their ranks and leadership so vehemently reject members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as legitimate citizens of the United States, including the God given constitutional right to elected office with no religious test. History shows time and again that the LDS Church has long been a powerful force in the preservation and support of conservative values.

The LDS Church endured much scrutiny because of their unwavering stand fighting for the institution of marriage being between one man and one woman in California. The LDS members organized with Evangelical Christians with overwhelming power both financially and vocally.

When FEMA was nowhere to be found, a massive contingency of LDS church members converged into the south and worked shoulder to shoulder with their Evangelical brothers and sisters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to serve those who needed help, providing money, food, medicine and supplies of every kind. Politics were far beneath the urgency of those hours and rightly faded out of sight and out of mind.

While the LDS Church itself does not endorse candidates or parties, the membership at large has been a bulwark for past conservative candidates and they have not applied religious test. When LDS senator Orin Hatch ran against George W. Bush in the republican primary, LDS members overwhelmingly supported Evangelical Christian George W. Bush over the prominent LDS senator. The overwhelming majority of LDS members have viewed their Evangelical Christian brothers and equals in the conservative cause, setting aside doctrinal differences in favor of the power that comes with unity.

Give much credit to the portion of Evangelical Christians who stand as instructive examples of Christians who have allowed their doctrinal differences to stand firm without discarding the conservative allies they have in their LDS friends. Brotherhood, kinship, and even deep love can be enjoyed between members of two beautiful faiths that share values that are completely harmonious. The wise man can see that the harmony of shared values is in no way destroyed by distinct doctrinal differences. For one to withhold support by improperly interpreting a mutual effort to champion common values as an endorsement for, or the recognition of the doctrine or cannon of the other is a mistake that will bring grave consequences to the common cause of both faiths.

WIth conservative values under attack to the degree they are today, one would think a powerful alliance between the faiths would generate unparalleled excitement, not the unprecedented division and distain found between republicans at this perilous hour.

Imagine how hurtful and disheartening it is to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattter-day Saints to be publicly marginalized and spurned as a cult. Like Evangelicals, LDS people have lives of service to, faith in, and develop a deep and genuine love for the Savior Jesus Christ. Both groups share tender feelings of gratitude for His sacred grace. Yet too often the grace and forgiveness LDS Church members feel in their deeply personal experiences with Jesus Christ is trivialized and irreverently and casually pronounced as null and void - not by God, but by men like Pastor Jefferess and many others.
If we say that God cannot guide or protect an LDS president, we sinfully deny God’s omnipotence, grace and love. If Evangelicals alone claim right to Divine Providence for those that give service in the Oval Office, then they alone must claim it for service on the battlefield as well. If they must hold their nose for a Mormon to serve their country in the White House they must also hold their nose when they place mormon soldiers in their graves at Arlington.

Mormons also have some members that do not have clean hands. Too often, too many LDS members in their missionary zeal fail to heed the words of Christ in their own Book of Mormon:

“And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been. For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away.”

We must boycott those who appoint themselves as our leaders, or claim to be our voice, if they aim hurtful language at anyone. Whether in our party or out - we should demand of them to show contrition, sincere apology, and service to those they have offended. (That means you too Rush)

The 2012 election will be decided by which party combines with the greatest degree of unity.

The key to victory or failure in any contest is very simple: Divide to conquer, unite to win.

The time has now come to aggressively focus on our collective cause of conservatism and decisively remove President Obama from office. We can choose to do this easily by cultivating the unity, enthusiasm, power and strength in numbers that is potentially within us. And we must do this in this very hour, before we completely witness our defeat by division, and inflict ourselves with wounds that will surely be mortal.

For the sake of our country and the future for our children, let us use wisdom and elect a president that shares our collective values, while we all individually maintain the the right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and let us allow all men the same privilege.

I don't think America is ready at all - the Mormon faith represents such a small number of people that most Americans won't feel comfortable with a President that doesn't come from a mainline faith.