Burning Mormon Scripture? Rick Perry’s “Mormon Problem” Gets Bigger

[rpannier]

Beyond Rick Perry’s high-profile Friday endorsement from Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress, who openly calls Mormonism a “cult”, Perry has worked closely with the charismatic evangelical tendency known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which dominated Perry’s August 6th presidential campaign launch event, The Response, and whose top leaders advise burning Books of Mormon.

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The Perry campaign, now in damage control mode, has responded with a statement that “The governor does not believe Mormonism is a cult.” But Perry’s ties to overtly anti-Mormon tendencies include his alliance with the rapidly growing movement on the charismatic evangelical right known as the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leading figure C. Peter Wagner has also labeled Mormonism a cult and whose top leaders (Wagner included) advise burning books of Mormon.

On September 28th, 2009, as described in an August 3, 2011 story in the Texas Observer, members of C. Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation blessed Governor Perry, in a private ceremony at the governor’s office in the Texas State House. On August 6th 2011, standing alongside Wagner apostle Alice Patterson (who has endorsed a book attacking Martin Luther King, Jr.), Rick Perry addressed (link to video of full Perry speech) tens of thousands assembled at Houston’s Reliant Stadium for The Response.

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Lists of items slated for destruction by Wagner’s movement include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha’i. The movement also targets, for destruction, objects associated with the Catholic faith including statues of Catholic saints, crucifixes, and rosary beads.

link:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/10/08/burning-mormon-scripture-rick-perrys-mormon-problem-gets-bigger/

[panzerfaust]

1. The Truth, and nothing but Our Truth

Why is it that the more one "believes," the more intolerant, the more repressive, the more atavistic, and, ultimately, the more murderous one becomes?


Hateful Heretics, being Burned Alive for their Error by Loving Christians
Praise God!

Bad enough that such behavior is our past. I shudder when I think it may be our future as well.

[rpannier]

4. What stuns me is how the Catholic Bishops and the LDS Church are so willing to work with these(ahem)

people.
It is plainly obvious that given the opportunity these extreme nutjobs would do to Catholics and Mormons what your picture depicts.

I guess it's that, "Oh, it would never happen." that they will mutter all the way to the stake

[BR_Parkway]

11. But if they don't stick together and keep the gays from getting married

then the general population might find out that none of their bullshit predictions happen and that might cause more to question other things they've been taught - which would lead to less money coming in.

It's strictly an alliance based on self interest, sort of the same crap they do on these reality shows... buddy up when it helps, then turn on them when the chance presents itself

[QC]

12. Shared hatreds can bring together even the most bitter enemies.

Sad, but true, and that is why conservatives of both Catholic and Protestant strains are quite happy to hold hands with people they consider vicious heretics if it will serve the cause of keeping the homos down.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Burn the Global Warming books, too." - RepubliFundies (R)

"Do whatever the HELL it takes to stamp out facts."

- RepubliFundies (R)

[SkyDaddy7]

3. So Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species"

Did not make the Burn List? :shrug:

[Owlet]

5. Bookburning

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Heinrich Heine

[Bluenorthwest]

6. A terrible 'minister' but we had in our last primary a 'minister' who

called for war on gay people, whom he said are 'trying to kill our children'. That was accepted by the OFA and DNC and by the bulk of DU. To complain about such hate speech was said to be 'poutrage''.
Anyone who cares to explain the difference between the two sets of hate speech is welcome to do so, tell me why it was alright on our side, to host such 'preachers'.

[rpannier]

13. I see no difference

I opposed it when we did it and I oppose this loser too

[rbixby]

7. Perry's Dead in the water anyway

But I do like to see them make these indirect personal attacks at each other.

[AlinPA]

8. Perry's association with burning all those things should help him in the base of their party and

the primaries.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. There's nothing like a good old fashioned book burning to stir up your base.

I don't understand the mindset of those who feel it's OK to burn the books of one religion, but would wail about persecution if it was done to the books that they hold sacred. Hypocrisy much?

[Enrique]

10. damn that's a long list

this could be Perry's energy plan:

Lists of items slated for destruction by Wagner’s movement include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha’i. The movement also targets, for destruction, objects associated with the Catholic faith including statues of Catholic saints, crucifixes, and rosary beads.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. idiots...nt