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Two Uncommon Hopefuls in America
Saints, make it to the primary elections as American presidential hopefuls.What’s the world coming to? Well, America has adopted the message of change, thanks to President Barack Obama’s positive election campaign.
But will this be a stretch too far for many Americans? Findings of the PEW survey below prove interesting reading.
Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are both devout Mormons according to reports. Both very wealthy men from equally wealthy backgrounds. I haven’t read so much of Romney’s background but I have long found Jon Huntsman’s entrepreneurial father’s story compelling reading.
What I find most interesting, with a son serving a mission, is that Romney and Huntsman also served full-time missions for the Church as young men. Political pundits will pay little, if any, attention to their missionary service. So I’ll go for it. Romney served as a missionary in France and Huntsman served in Taiwan. Not surprisingly, Romney reportedly speaks fluent French and Huntsman speaks fluent Mandarin. They both report a lifelong love for the people they served all those years ago. That tends to happen when you live, eat, laugh, sleep, cry and pray closely as family with people for two years or more.
Huntsman later served as the US Ambassador to China taking with him his ready fluency with Mandarin, thanks to the mission he served as a Mormon missionary. Unfortunately, one of the presidential hopeful and his team, Ron Paul, resorted to misrepresentation of his love for the people he served and his Mandarin fluency. They uploaded it 10 days ago in a nasty political attack posted here on youtube….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZeVqj-t1U0
So before anyone rushes off yet again and condemns Mormons to a life of myths and misunderstandings, I would recommend going direct to the source to find out what Mormons believe. It just so happens that PEW had done just that. It busts some myths.
