Ok,watch the video first(sorry about the commercial and that you have to click onto the link):
This is decent clip.Mr.Romney speaking his mind...voicing his opinion.Being against governmental intrusion on religion is a no brainer...right?!?
Well...no.
Mitt Romney is either a moron on Mormon history:His own family's history,or he is a huge hypocrite pandering to voters-ok--lying to voters-to get elected.
Way back in the day,the Mormon church felt so strongly about making the Utah territory a state that without United States approval,they formed their own state.
The United States was strongly against this proposition,so strongly in fact,that they began a secret war against the powers that be:The Mormon Church.
Push came to shove.The government of The United States proclaiming that Utah would never become a state as long as the Church of Latter Day Saints followed the practice of polygamy.Though the church felt so adamant about polygamy that they sent a group of missionaries to Mexico to continue the practice,they capitulated to the governmet of the U.S.of A.,and Utah became a state in 1896.
Is Mitt Romney ignorant of his own family history?Of his church's?Or is he saying tha America was wrong to enforce it's views on religion then as well as now?If the third option is his choice,then what does that say about his beliefs?His own church was willing to bend-you could say change-it's rules and capitulate on matters most would argue are far more intrusive then birth control for employees.Why should he not be equally inclined to allow the government of the people by the people for the people to demand compliance to it's established laws?
One would also have to ask if Mr.Romney would be so compassionate for all religions and their rights to to proclaim religious law over American civil laws.Would Mr.Romney argue for the right of a religion to chop off the hand of any person that caught stealing-even those not of that religion?Hanging people for smiling to the wrong person?Crucifying someone for performing miracles?
America must have the seperation of church and state.When we seperated from England,king George was not just king,but also the head of the Church of England.It is one of the fundmental reasons we fought against the British and why we so strongely hold the right of no governmentally sanctioned religion.
Governmental laws must trump religious laws,just as federal laws must trump state laws.Granted,this is a fine thin line.Religious rights and states rights,for the most part,must be left to these individual organizations.But,just as if you are receiving governmental funds,you must play by their rules and regulations to incure them,so must you play by the laws of our great country in order to incure the most out of its benefits.
'Live Free Or Die',is not just a Tea Party catchphrase,it must be the sprirt all of us as Americans should live by.But,also,as our friends to the right are so foundly of saying,'Freedom Isn't Free'.
For Mitt Romney to spout that he will get rid of governmental influences shows that he has no grasp on his own past,let alone that of America's.Do we really want a glorified money laundrier as president,or do we need a commander in chief?
You decide.I have.
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