We have no right to expect a different outcome if we keep voting the same way for the same kinds of candidates.

In my opinion there is a significant difference between referring to “the more ‘fundamentalist’ segment of the Mormon church” and referring to two different churches each with its own separate leadership and membership. In line with a comment I made in a previous post, referring to a fundamentalist segment of the Mormon Church is similar to referring to Lutherans as a segment of the Catholic Church. I think such a statement brings more confusion than clarity to the issue.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did actually abandon plural marriage based on theological revelation (that was not accepted by those who later founded The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). The revelation is described in the following quotation: “I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write” (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/od/1).

Bill Keller was the source of the “Vote for Romney is Vote for Satan” quotation. Just to be clear, my post did not claim his quotation appeared on the Huckabee website. And, yes, I hope that his opinions and the opinions expressed in the “Mormon garbage” quotation are not opinions accepted in the mainstream of American thought. The “Mormon garbage” quotation appeared as a signed posting on Huckabee’s website (see my previous response for details).

Thanks for your post.

Here is the full citation from a hardcopy I made and still have in my possession.

“Colasurdo, Chase
12/18/2007 02:00 AM

As evangelicals we cannot stand for this mormon garbage to get into office. They even believe Jesus and Satan were brothers.

My vote is gods vote, Huckabee 08!”

I personally saw this post still on Huckabee’s website more than three months after the date listed on the post, which was long after many others had written about it.

As one of many examples of people who commented on the above post, please see http://www.article6blog.com/?s=mickelson.

I think your healthy skepticism about the above post is a reaffirmation that a sense of social decency would call for such a statement to be removed from a presidential candidate’s website once the statement has been discovered. Thanks for posting your comment.

As for the Huckabee quote, I, too, would like to see referenced citation. I for one did a quick search of the internet and found the quote comes from Bill Keller, a fundamentalist (not mainstream) preacher (see http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55642)
The only reference to Huckabee I found came from an unsigned post on an offshoot message board.

http://goesdownbitter.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/kids-alone/