Media Moves the Goal Posts for Romney

If Mitt Romney wins Ohio, is the Republican race over?

But that was yesterday. Romney wins Ohio. So does he have it locked up? Now the Washington Post story is that he narrowly averted disaster and has a long haul.

Ridiculous.

Washington Post Misquotes Mormon Professor To Sound Racist

"“God has always been discriminatory” when it comes to whom he grants the authority of the priesthood, says Bott, the BYU theologian. He quotes Mormon scripture that states that the Lord gives to people “all that he seeth fit.” Bott compares blacks with a young child prematurely asking for the keys to her father’s car, and explains that similarly until 1978, the Lord determined that blacks were not yet ready for the priesthood.

“What is discrimination?” Bott asks. “I think that is keeping something from somebody that would be a benefit for them, right? But what if it wouldn’t have been a benefit to them?” Bott says that the denial of the priesthood to blacks on Earth — although not in the afterlife — protected them from the lowest rungs of hell reserved for people who abuse their priesthood powers. “You couldn’t fall off the top of the ladder, because you weren’t on the top of the ladder. So, in reality the blacks not having the priesthood was the greatest blessing God could give them.”" (washingtonpost.com)

Bott says he was misquoted by Post journalist Jason Horowitz.

"He said he had been misquoted," said Katie Cutler, a junior in linguistics from Yorktown, Va. "He said he just shared the scriptures with the reporter and told them that the church hasn't given an official reason for the priesthood ban."

The Post does indeed take little snippets of Bott's quote and mix it with their own words. A vile but common tactic to make a person say exactly the opposite of what they mean. Of course the church itself wasn't offered a chance to explain the role of race in Mormonism. It issued this statement:

It is unfortunate that the Church was not given a chance to respond to what others said.

The Church’s position is clear—we believe all people are God’s children and are equal in His eyes and in the Church. We do not tolerate racism in any form.

Washington Post goes on to make other bold-faced lies about Mormonism:

Paintings upstairs depict the Lamanites, the tribe in Mormon scripture that bears dark skin as a sign of God’s curse.

Dark skin not the curse. The Book of Mormon makes it clear that is not the curse. The curse is ignorance, because they were born into a society that wasn't religious. The dark skin is called the mark of the curse because many Lamanites happened to be of that skin color.

Jazon Horowitz also pushes the phony post-humous baptism attack. He pushes Republican hatered for Romney because of his religion. Pure bigotry.

Boston Globe Falsely Reports Daniel Pearl 'Post-Humously Baptised Mormon'

The anti-Mormon bigotry continues:

Members of the Mormon Church last year posthumously baptized Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was captured and killed by terrorists in Pakistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to records uncovered by a researcher in Utah.

Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who combs through the church’s archives, said that records indicate Pearl, who was Jewish, was baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011 at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho. Mormons baptize deceased Jews and members of other religions as part of a rite intended to give them access to salvation.

IT IS NOT POSTHUMOUS BAPTISM!

Baptism is performed by proxy on Mormons on behalf of deceased relatives that they may possibly get to accept or reject if they never got the proper opportunity to accept or reject Mormonism in life. That's all it is. This simple explanation is missing from Boston.com, from NPR, from Huffington Post, from Haaretz, and the rest of the slimeball media who picked up this story.

Mormons are told to be very careful when performing these proxy baptisms, to only do it on behalf of close relatives, and to ask permission from close family of the deceased before doing so. Such permission is required before it can be performed.

There is zero evidence provided that Pearl's baptism took place. How could an ex-Mormon access these records, as they are only accessible to good-standing members of the church? Why aren't we told the name of the person who allegedly requested the baptism, which is always provided in these records?

Boston Globe frequently spreads anti-Mormon bigotry with lies. Think they will ever mention Obama's "God D*mn Amerikkka" pastor?

Rick Santorum Urges Pro-Union Democrats to Spike the GOP Vote

A pointed gesture to the auto unions who heavily approve of their Socialistic bailout.

Fox News Hypes Pro-Illegal Immigrant Mormons Who Oppose Mitt Romney

Fox News claimed the Mormon Church campaigns for Romney and now suggests via Associated Press that Latino Mormons question their faith because of Romney's conservative values.

(Fox News/Associated Press) -"The Catholic-educated Packard, who grew up in "the middle of Mayan ruins," appreciated the faith's strong sense of family and conservative values...

But two decades after her conversion while a college student at Mississippi State, the 43-year-old Packard finds herself on a new mission: defeating Mitt Romney and any Mormon politician who betrays what she sees as a basic Mormon principle of protecting immigrants...

They also view Romney's stance against proposals giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship as hypocritical...

Garcia said it is estimated that nearly 70 percent of Latino Mormons are illegal immigrants. "

That estimate is pulled out of thin air. ABC claims 7% of Mormons in America are Latino. Ninety percent of Mormons are pro-deportation.

Let's do some quick math. So according to these statistics only 3% of non-Latino Mormons are anti-deportation?? Somehow I doubt that.

But we would expect liberal lies about Mormons to come out of Fox News.

The Mormon bashing also follows the Associated Press strategy to take down Romney. It is very telling that they would team up with Fox News to spread liberal propaganda.

Star-Tribune Spreads Religious Lies About Mitt Romney

There is a huge difference between baptizing for the dead and baptizing dead people. The latest bigoted attack from the liberal media is to make it sound like Mormons literally baptize dead people.
Mitt Romney and baptizing the dead

www.startribune.com- "Five years ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told Newsweek magazine that he’d participated in Mormon ceremonies to baptize the dead. He didn’t name names.

At a time when he least needed bad publicity about his religion, Romney is now being dragged into a new scandal over his church’s posthumous baptism of Jews, who are rightly outraged by the practice....

Secondly, his candidacy has been dogged by public skepticism about his religion, which claims to be Christian but whose views are outside of mainstream Christianity.

Romney’s efforts to position himself as a champion on religious freedom may now be undone because the proxy baptism controversy once again shines a spotlight on the atypical beliefs of his religion, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mormons baptize people posthumously to allow them the “opportunity” to embrace the faith in the afterlife."

Appalling lies.

As a supporter of radical Islam, journalist Susan Hogan praised CAIR and supported Sharia law. She raged against Christianity 'poaching' on Santa Claus, and she hyped pedophile priests.

Santorum's Multi-Million Donor Attacks Mormons With Bigotry

Surprised?

"Friess had no hesitation in bringing the Mormon Church, of which the Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney is a member, into an attack on abuse of welfare benefits, suggesting, without explanation, that "little Mormon gals" were getting pregnant with rich men and taking welfare to pay for their babies.

He seemed to be saying this was as much a factor in the breakdown of society than a spin-off of Mormonism: "It's not just because they are in the Mormon Church. It's what has happened in America where typically Mormons would never ever take welfare - ever."

Other candidates and their backers have generally avoided overt attacks on Mormonism, aware of the risk of trespassing on the widely respected right to freedom of religious belief." (Reuters)

The guy who is bankrolling Rick Santorum is just another anti-Mormon bigot.

You won't see outrage over these remarks on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air, Gatewaypundit, Andrew Breitbart, etc.

Gatewaypundit falsely suggests Romney forced contraceptives on Catholic Church

Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit repeated Obama's false claim that Romney forced Catholic organizations to give contraceptive services. Obama and Newt Gingrich invented the lie.

As governor Romney actually vetoed the legislation that the White House compares to Obamacare. Romney had been sure to include a religious exemption clause. The religious exemption clause makes Jim Hoft's claim a lie. The liberal politicians overrode his veto, and and the liberal legislation overrode the religious exemption clause.

Gatewaypundit has been losing readers since he started his slimy attacks on Mitt Romney.

Fox News: Romney's vacation with pet dog disqualifies him to be President

Did you hear about the time Mitt Romney took his family on vacation and had his dog inside a kennel strapped to the roof of his car? Yes, it has come to this.

Why Romney's 'dog on car roof' story makes him unfit to be president

(Fox News)- ..."But when I read the story recently in greater detail about what Romney did to his Irish Setter, Seamus, that struck me as more than heartless — it struck me as downright cruel.

In brief, as the Boston Globe first reported in 2007, in 1983, Mitt Romney, then 36 years old, drove his station wagon packed with five sons and his wife on a 12-hour trip from Boston to Ontario, where his parents had a cottage on Lake Huron.

He took a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack, built a special windshield, and put his dog Seamus into the carrier, where the dog remained for the 12-hour trip.

Was the dog distressed? Was it illegal under Massachusetts law as cruelty? There is some evidence that both are true....

I think anyone who puts his dog in a cage on top of a car for a 12-hour drive and then deludes himself or tries to delude others that the dog really enjoyed it — to me, with all due respect, I feel such a man shouldn’t be president of the United States."

Would you expect such utter nonsense from Fox News?? Of course you would.

HotAir.com Headlines Mormon Romney 'Gaffe'

Hot Air blog linked to a video in which CNN's John King mistakenly calls Mitt Romney a "Mormon governor" while discussing religion in Nevada's exit polls.

Hotair has run a hate campaign against Mormons. The sites owner Salem Communications seems to run widespread hate and disinformation about Mormons.