The above reasons are why orthodox Christians will never vote for a man who adheres to a religion that blatently throws what God Himself said to the wind. The Mormon claim that “As man is now, God once was. As God is, man can become” is patently false. There is one God. Orthodox Christians have read Isaiah 43 and 44.

Mormonism adds works to what Christ already did. John 19 states Christ, who IS God Himself, say “it is finished”. God already did what is required for us to achieve eternal life. Now, please don’t misunderstand what I am saying. Saint Jamed DID say faith without works is dead, but Saint James was speaking to people who were already Christians. In other words, we do things that are pleasing to God not to warrant merit, but to please God alone. Our works will not in any way influence God. Saint Paul so eloquently point this out when he stated that our righteousness before God is filthy rags and that no one should boast about his works before God. We get to Heaven through Christ Jesus alone. Jesus is God Himself. Rad John 14:6. We do works only to bear good fruit, to show we are Christians, not to earn merit with God.
Mormons believe people can become gods. This is heresy. Mormons believe men are prophets in these days. The prophets were unto Saint John as God Himself has declared.
Mormons are just not going to get the votes required to put someone in the big chair.

Mormons reject the doctrine of the Holy Trinity by stating that they are three separate gods. There is but ONE triune God. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Father was not created, but was, is, and forever shall be. The Son was not created, but was begotten from the Father. The Holy Spirit was not created, nor begotten, but proceeds from the Father and Son. They are three-in-one. The Godhead is what has always been taught — the One Triune God. Americans will not vote for someone who even remotely, possibly believes otherwise.
In my opinion, and, yes, I risked getting flamed here, but — I believe in order to be elected to public office, one must be a believer – an orthodox believer. There is no room for anything less.
Alot of what I have stated will no doubt be thrown out with a grain of salt, but a reading of the Holy Bible will put what I have said in the light of truth. And no, the KJV is not the only version worth believing. The New American Standard is internationally recognized as being the closest to the original Hebrew and Greek texts. No Bible is perfectly translated. They Bible is the perfect, innerant Word of God translated by sinful men. There are bound to be some mistakes, but what matters is the heart of men. God judges our hearts more than anything else.

And he has quoted emails from devout Mormons, as well as former Mormons. I was one of the Mormons he quoted on his blog. I DEFENDED LDS Mormons as being NON-racist.

You’re over simplifying things when you say that “Christians in Sullivan’s sense recognize each other’s baptisms.” A Lutheran who becomes a Baptist would have to be baptized by immersion, as just one example. The Nicene creed is pretty much the bottom line though. Denominations which reject that creed are typically considered “non-Christian” by the vast majority of Christendom. That’s why the J.W.’s are similarly outcast.

The question becomes: Who gets to decide who can properly be called a Christian ? Jesus Christ decides. However, since he’s not giving case-by-case feedback at the moment, it really should be up to the individual.

This is where Sullivan becomes a hypocrite. As a gay man, many (most?) Christians reject him as a fellow-believer due to his lifestyle choice. Who is he to say Mormons aren’t Christian due to their creedal choice?

“Christians” in Sullivan’s sense recognize each other’s baptisms. Since Mormons do not recognize other Christian’s baptism, Sullivan concludes that they are not “Christians.”

If you are baptized Lutheran or Pentecostal, for example, you won’t have to be rebaptized when you join the Catholic Church. That includes baptism by immersion if it were performed by Mennonites, for example.

Clearly, there is a bright line between Mormonism and the Nicean creeds. We don’t teach that we are the only true church for nothing. It’s only natural that adherents of the criticized faiths would respond with their own exclusive claims.

On the other hand, it is a little provincial to limit Christianity to the Niceans. Christ and the Apostles were not Niceans. Just as there are a lot of different ideas about Mormonism, one can be a Christian without being a Nicean.

It has no connection to the LDS Church; does not claim to be “the only true church.” Reform Mormonism is a religion of principles only. It’s theology consists entirely of the Mormon Paradigm of Eternal Progression: “As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may become.” Conversion to Reform Mormonism does not consist of joining a church or submitting at any ordinance such as baptism. One becomes a Reform Mormon when one makes a personal covenant to emulate God and start on a path of personal Eternal Progression.

You can visit Reform Mormonism’s central website (which includes links to other Reform Mormon websites) by clicking on to:

http://www.reformmormonism.org