Tag Archives: Book of Mormon

Mormon Policies on Politics and Conscience

October 30, 2012

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Guest Post by Julia Taylor; this article is cross-posted on poetrysansonions.com I am doing a series of posts on the “Mormon Moment,” on my personal blog. (My original post focused on the policies of the LDS church, and included the issues around the Prop 8 election in California, which has already been more than covered […]

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The Rich Take the Truth to Be Hard

October 18, 2012

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Post by Joseph M – President Obama finally did it: he ended Tuesday evening’s debate by calling out Governor Romney (to his face!) over the 47% comment.  Romney set himself up for it; he answered the last question by declaring that he cares about 100% of America.  This proved a temptation too great to for […]

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Why I’m a Mormon and Support President Obama, Part 2/6: Measuring the Man

September 17, 2012

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Post by Randy Astle – PART TWO: MEASURING THE MAN My thoughts in my first post were basically introductory to talking about specific issues; for my own sake as much as anything else I wanted to think through why there are conservatives and liberals within the Mormon camp and how there is room for both […]

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The Book of Mormon Takes a Stand – for Obama

July 26, 2012

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Guest Post by Steve Warren – We all know Mitt Romney is the Mormon in this year’s presidential race.  Therefore, we ought to be safe in assuming that Book of Mormon teachings more closely align with his views than those of President Obama. Alas, if we made that assumption, we’d be wrong. Let’s examine what […]

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Liberals in the Midst

June 13, 2012

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Post by Joseph M – I wish I could see an Excel sheet printout that enumerated all the going-ons during the many Sunday School lessons taught this past Sunday (of which Mosiah 29 was discussed.)  I read a couple of comments on the Mormons for Obama Facebook group and heard a few things from some friends, and apparently this is […]

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An Opposition in All Things

May 20, 2012

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Post by Joseph M – Romney has fought hard to keep the campaign about the issues (or issue in his case: the economy,) and he’s fighting again; he quickly slammed attempts by a Super PAC to produce an anti-Obama ad that focused on racially charged comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright – see Yahoo News story. […]

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