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A Mormon in the White House?!?! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

  
 
Dexter Graves
23:23 / 03.03.12
A while ago, I made a comment that I'd rather cut my toes (or was it fingers) off with a bolt cutter than see a Mormon occupy the Oval Office. There have been a lot of folks making extreme statements about politics lately, myself included. I'm going to make one here by reiterating my point about mormons holding public office.

I would rather see the Occupy movement go militant then invade and burn down the White House than see a Mormon sitting in it. I would rather set neutron bombs off all over Utah on the day of the primary, killing off most of its population than see a Mormon in the Oval Office. They're fucking crazy, all of them. As a collective, they're even more insane than this post, which is, admittedly, pretty frightening.

"But Dexterr, couldn't things get a lot worse than having a Mormon in office? Would stopping it really be worth nuking Utah (which would be kind of cool if we were into genocide.)"

Of course, alternate self. They could bring back slavery or announce a law that requires us all to pray, everyday. That's not the point. The point is the Church of Jesus Christ & the Latter Day Saints is an organization built on insanity, especially self-deception regarding sexuality. Married Joseph Smith decided he wanted to fuck a teenage girl and that's how Mormon polygamy started. It ended because there was a Federal law passed banning it and the army was about to start rounding up Mormon. Conveniently, the church's president got a revelation from God telling him to end Mormon polygamy. This is an organization who's central tenets of belief have been constructed around perversion and conformity.

I would rather cut out a Mormon Missionary's intestines, shove them down his throat and wait to see if he chokes or bleeds to death than see a Mormon in the White House.

I can't believe they've got two of those fuckers running on a ticket. I know this isn't their fault but I am just not happy with Mormons right now so don't expect me to be rational about them.

On the bright side, I would rather see a Mormon elected to office than cut my dick off or have my teeth pulled out with a pair of pliers.

"So, Dexter, you'd be willing to send millions of Mormons to their deaths to prevent the election of a Mormon president but couldn't endure a little medieval torture for the good of humanity? You're a selfish, coward!!!"

I don't think I'm a coward. But yeah, I'm a selfish hypocrite and an opportunist. Guilty as charged. But that doesn't change the fact that Mormons suck and shouldn't be running our country!

"Mormons sucking is not a fact. It's an opinion."

Fuck off.
 
 
LykeX
08:21 / 25.01.15
There are rumors of Romney trying to go for another run, so I'll just add a comment here. I think we need to distinguish between three entities: The Mormons, the Mormon leadership/church, and Romney himself.

In my experience Mormons aren't all that bad. They seem no worse than a lot of other groups and better than some. They're quite friendly and more open-minded than I would have thought (YMMV, of course).

The Mormon leadership are bat-shit crazy. The hierarchy seems like an advanced pyramid scheme with a deliberate bias in favor of really old, conservative men. The doctrines of the church are so far out they make the average Young Earth Creationist look like a paragon of rationality.
It's a vicious, self-serving, misogynistic, racist, totalitarian system, built on such obvious and demonstrable lies that the only way for the leadership to remain in control is to deliberately cripple their membership's ability to think or acquire information.
They encourage marrying young, praises total devotion to the church and favors isolating members from outside sources of information or social contact. Some of their attitudes and practices are downright cult-like. Scary shit.

Now, as for Romney, I'm not sure how serious a Mormon he really is. I think he'd care more about staying in office than pleasing the church leadership, so he wouldn't let them dictate policies.
On the other hand, I think he'd want to stay in office so much that he'd happily sell out to general fundie right-wing ideas; such as stacking the SC with anti-abortion people and letting science teachers use the bible as a text book.

Basically, I don't think we should worry about Romany because he's a Mormon. We should worry about Romney because he's a completely unscrupulous narcissist with absolutely zero idea of how the other 99% of people live.
I mean this is a guy who thinks he had it tough because at one point they had to sell some of their stocks to get through a rough patch. You think he's going to understand the importance of public health care or food stamps?

He'll sell everyone down the river, not because of his religion, but because he's a rich, self-centered asshole who doesn't give a shit about anyone else.
 
  
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