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Why I, as a former Mormon, would not vote for Mitt Romney
for President of United States.
By Rauni Higley
[Written in 2007.. Still valid in 2011] .
I would not vote for Mitt Romney, not because I think he is a bad person, or that Mormons in general are evil people. Quite the opposite. I can say that I do not think we could find a much more morally decent person for president in this country than Mitt Romney.
So what is the problem? The problem is that Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and Mormonism is a very aggressive cult, a religion that leads people to eternal separation from Jesus Christ of the Bible.
A US president with no definite religious beliefs, or a membership in some mainstream Christian denomination, may not have influence that could effect the eternity of individuals, but a man with deep-rooted cultic beliefs could influence millions into joining Mormonism, especially when taking into consideration that the LDS Church has a nearly sixty-thousand-strong missionary force, that could and would use President Romney as ”bait” for an introduction into Mormonism, not only in the United States, but around the world.
Majority of people in this country as well as elsewhere are not familiar enough with Mormonism to be able to separate it from traditional Christianity – after all, they sound the same – but are they?
Rev. Al Sharpton made a visit to Salt Lake City to apologize and clear up some derogatory statements he had made about Mitt Romney. According to the papers, the LDS leadership “cleared” them up all right. After this visit Al Sharpton said, “It [his visit] was about our trying to learn about each other as believers in God and Christ, to find a common ground… [and] work together for the good of humanity.” (SL Tribune, May 22, 2007 – Section B, p. 1.)
Al Sharpton obviously did not ask enough questions, or if he did, he was not told that the Mormon Church does not believe in the same God and Christ as biblical Christianity, even though President Gordon B. Hinckley has said publicly that he does not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity.
Sharpton may not know that Mormonism uses Christian terms, but that it has given to all of them a totally different meaning. He also may have gotten some vague answers that seemed to speak of the same beliefs, but in reality they are not even close. Had he been told the truth, he would have learned that the God of the Mormon Church is not Eternal God of the Bible (Isa. 43:10; Ps. 90:2). He is a creation of Joseph Smith, made after his image.
Quoting Joseph Smith, “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man…I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea…you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves…the same as all Gods have done before you… until you attain to the resurrection of the dead and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings…” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345-347.) [Everlasting burnings? That is hell, is it not?]
Mormon men, including Mitt Romney, are planning on becoming gods themselves, “same as all Gods have done before [them]”.
Jesus of Mormonism is not a unique and the only Son of God, but he is the eldest of all spirit children of God born to God and his multiple wives in the “pre-existence”. Mormon-Jesus is also a spirit-brother of Lucifer and all angels. When Jesus of Mormonism was born into mortality, He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost, but he was begotten by their “father in heaven”, an exalted god-man. Their doctrine says: “Christ was begotten by an Immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.” (Mormon Doctrine, p. 547.) Thus He was not Virgin born, Immanuel (Matt. 1:23), God, who became a man to die for mankind’s sins, but He is a man who became a god, as all Mormon men are told they too can become.
There are many more differences between Mormonism and Christianity.
Are evangelical Christians going to support Mitt Romney’s presidency if they know more about his beliefs? Are religious matters important when electing a president? Maybe not in an ordinary case, but Mormons say that they are Christians, but they are no more Christians than Muslims are.
Mitt Romney does not believe what Christians believe. If Mitt Romney knows what Christianity believes about God and Jesus, then he is being deceitful when he says or implies that he is a Christian. If Romney is willing to deceive for votes in this issue that could effect the eternal destiny of people world-wide, can he be trusted in protecting our interests in temporary matters?
Mitt Romney and Mormons in general maybe nice people as people go, but would his influence lead millions, who do not know what Mormonism teaches about God, Jesus and salvation, into the Mormon Church, thinking they are Christians, and thus away from true Christ and to Christ-less eternity? I would say that would be the case.
The only way to solve this problem would be for Mitt Romney to be honest and make it clear publicly what Mormonism teaches and believes, that Christian words used by Mormons do not mean the same as what they mean to Christians. He needs to admit that Mormonism is polytheistic, that they believe in many gods and men becoming gods, and that they too in the future will create worlds and populate them with their spirit children, who in turn will worship them as Father and Mother Gods. He needs to let the world know that in Mormon temples they go through rituals that include “eternal or celestial marriage”, which makes Mormon couples potential gods and goddesses and promises them eternal increase in their posterity.
Only the most faithful of Mormons are eligible to enter a Mormon temple. Mitt Romney is in that elite group of Mormons. He is a temple-card (recommend) holding Mormon. Not only is he planning on godhood after this life, through his temple vows and oaths, he has also taken oaths in a Mormon temple to put the LDS church above all else, he has taken a solemn oath in a temple to “consecrate himself, his time, talents, and everything he now has, or will have in the future, for the building up of the Kingdom of God here upon the earth, and for the establishment of Zion”. It is important to know and understand that the Kingdom of God to a Mormon, as they have been taught, is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is now constituted, is the Kingdom of God on earth. The Church and the kingdom are one and the same.”(Mormon Doctrine, p. 415, 1966 ed.)
His oath to consecrate himself means that he would have to do all that his church orders him to do, even if the US Government and her interests some day, while he is the president, are in opposition to the wants and desires of the Mormon Church.
As a temple Mormon he must believe and accept what the LDS Church says it is, “”the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.” (Doctrine and Covenants, 1:30.) The LDS scriptures also teach that all other churches and their professors (believers) are abomination to God. (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith – History – 1:19.) Romney, as a temple-card holding Mormon, must accept and believe that, whether he admits it or not to his voters.
Joseph Smith is the founding prophet and all Mormons must revere him as such. Joseph Smith was, in a secret ceremony of his council of fifty, “ordained as the King to rule and reign over the House of Israel forever.” Joseph Smith was also a candidate for presidency, as was Brigham Young. The Mormon Church has had political ambitions from the start, and Joseph Smith even made a prophecy concerning the “elders of the church” saving this country’s government and the world.
Some years back all temple-Mormons were swearing an oath against the United States, that said, “You and each of you do covenant and promise that you will pray and never cease to pray to Almighty God to avenge the blood of the prophets upon this nation, that you will teach the same to your children and to your children’s children unto the third and fourth generation.”
Mitt Romney’s grandfather and his ancestry prior to that have participated in this oath. This oath was discontinued about 80 years ago, but Mitt Romney is under that covenant, since his grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather have taken that oath. The “prophets” spoken of in this oath are Joseph and Hyrum Smith, who were both killed in a gunfight, in Carthage Ill. in 1844. Joseph Smith killed two men and wounded a third one before he was gunned down (all that is documented in LDS History).
Mitt Romney has close relations to polygamy. His grandparents were polygamists. His father, George Romney, former presidential candidate and governor of Michigan, was born in Mexico, because his parents chose to leave Utah to be able to “legally” practice polygamy.
Maybe this is something to think about and consider. I do not have anything against Mitt Romney as a citizen and a man, but as a president of the United States, he would become a “poster-boy” for the Mormon Church, and draw millions into Mormonism – and he could be influenced by the LDS church on how this country and the world should be run.
For more details in this issue, please get Dr. Charles Wood’s book, The Mormon Conspiracy, A Review of Present Day and Historical Conspiracies to Mormonize America and the World. It can be ordered from www.amazon.com
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