{"id":5454,"date":"2012-09-18T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:19:00","slug":"can-a-christian-vote-for-a-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5454","title":{"rendered":"Can a Christian Vote For a Mormon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer<\/a>, who links to a video of noted Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias. If you are having qualms about voting for a Mormon because of your Christian beliefs, this is a very good (short) video from one of the greatest Christian thinkers of our day.<\/p>\n

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Also, the AP is reporting that some black pastors are telling their congregations to sit this election out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That’s a worrisome message for the nation’s first African-American president, who can’t afford to lose any voters from his base in a tight race.<\/p>\n

The pastors say their congregants are asking how a true Christian could back same-sex marriage, as President Barack Obama did in May. As for Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon nominee from a major party, congregants are questioning the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its former ban on men of African descent in the priesthood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ll say what I’ve said in previous elections. While I think a person’s value, informed by their religion, are something to consider when voting, I’m not voting for a national pastor; I’m voting for a national political leader. I think if these pastors could watch this video and get over their concern that Romney happens to be Mormon, this could really change the playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer, who links to a video of noted Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias. If you are having qualms about voting for a Mormon because of your Christian beliefs, this is a very good (short) video from one of the greatest Christian thinkers of our day. Also, the AP is reporting that some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,32,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-mormonism","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t