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Published Monday, July 20, 2009 | 1:13 p.m.
Updated Monday, July 20, 2009 | 1:13 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joined leaders of the Latter-day Saints Church today as they met with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Reid, a Mormon, met with church President Thomas Monson and Elder Dallin H. Oaks as they spoke with the president and presented Obama with five, leather-bound volumes detailing multiple generations of his family’s history.
The church has given similar genealogies to past presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Obama issued a statement thanking the church for the gifts.
“I enjoyed my meeting with President Monson and Elder Oaks,” the president said. “I'm grateful for the genealogical records that they brought with them and am looking forward to reading through the materials with my daughters. It's something our family will treasure for years to come."
Reid also thanked the church leaders “for sharing our religion’s tradition of genealogical research with the President and his family.
“I am also glad that President Obama and Elder Oaks had an opportunity to discuss their shared passion of the law,” Reid said. “Recognizing the President and First Lady's deep regard for family, I am honored that our Church can have any part in documenting their family history.”
Catholic theology authorizes me to perform baptisms under certain conditions. I am now going to start baptizing deceased Mormons as Catholics. Hope nobody minds.
HELP DEFEAT HARRY REID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6KBClFM...
happy that everyone is happy. come on and be respectful once in a while. The world is not a joke. God loves you even when you do things to dishonor God and when you make fun of some of his sincere followers. If you have not sinned and can honestly look into the mirror and tell the truth about your own lives, well, maybe then it would be ok to be disrespectful. However, if you can look and be honest and respectful of yourselves, I doubt that you would write this crap!
"It's something our family will treasure for years to come."
My a**!!! It will be going into storage first chance.
revtomperl
No one is being disrespectful. And please do not preach to us or else.....Teaser is going to have to baptize you and you will then belong to the Church of Rome - the One and Only True Religion that will guarantee your entrance into Heaven (at least that's what the Nuns told us!!!)
did the mormons ask who built the dinosaur bones and put them in the earth?
Okay teaser, that seems like a good play. If you are right, I win, I'm a catholic. If you are wrong, I don't lose, I'm not a catholic.
Everyone knows that the dinosaur bones were put in the earth by a partership of Shania Twain and Frank Stallone.
Obama said ""I enjoyed my meeting with President Monson and Elder Oaks," the president said. "I'm grateful for the genealogical records that they brought with them..."
So that should win Too Big to Fail Senator Harry Reid'm and Weep a vote in 2010
Well if you all are going to baptise people as catholics, then I'm going to start baptising people as baptists!!.....the protestants.....then hindus......and I will ask your deceased if they want to convert to islam,.......and on and on and on!!!
Why stop at one religion, cover your bases and get a full membership in every line of god worshiping you can!!!
Hmmmm......maybe I should start the CHRUCH DEPOT, one stop shopping for all your religious needs!!
I feel really neat today. Just put on my sacred underwear. No doubt that wearing the underclothing will help me chasing the chicks. I'm an LDS hound, and I'm on a roll...
From where I sit, It is kind of like hotel reservations. As long as I don't commit to a choice, but everyone else is making reservations for me . . . When I show up (Where ever it is), there should be a room with my name on it. All the other hotels that don't exist, don't matter.
I'd still give my credit card to the hotel that I think I'll be staying at, just for that added assurance that when I get where I think I'm going there will be room at the inn.
I hate mormons.
I was up in Ely today and their are posters and signs everywhere saying "vote for anybody BUTT Harry Reid".
I was so happy I almost cried.
Harry is starting his "kiss the Mormon's butt" campaign a little early, he must be feeling the heat.
Maybe Obama is the regeneration of the white salamander.
"God loves you even when you do things to dishonor God ..."
revtomperl -- if you're not christian there's no such thing as sin.
I don't know why everyone gets so upset with the work we do for the deceased? Just because we do ordinances like baptism for those who are dead does not then make them a member of our church in the least bit in any way at all. We believe that those who have not had the chance here, by doing the work in proper authority in their name here, they then have the opportunity if they want to, to accept the work we have done to progress further on after they have passed on. Thats it, we beleive there are certain things we have to do before we can return to "heaven" that there's not just a free pass given to everyone. and being baptized is one of those things. so i dont understand why everyone gets so offended on this subject, we are just helping them to have a chance if they would like it. How would you like it if you got somewhere and you needed an id to get in, but you forgot it? But then someone had already put you on the list to get in? I would be grateful! In a sense that is all we are doing. That's what we believe, and i am sorry that this country cant let someone believe what they like in peace. I thought that was what we were about! Letting every man worship how they please.
jeff6382,
Sex, religion and politics are the three things people have strong opinions about on these comment boards. You can talk all you want, but eventually you have to do what I do. Sit back and just read all the hate going on in the world. It's sad really.
i think all religions are stupid, but i have a special fondness for the mormons.
13 year old brides = good.
coffee = evil.
Don't hate Mormons, or belittle them...just be thankful you were not raised in the Mormon church.
any mormon that votes for this sacrilegious piece of work, is voting aginst their own religion. harry the snake has lied to the church and the people of nevada enough.....
VOTE REID OUT OF OFFICE IN 2010!!!!
Mountain Meadows. Obama is a descendant of Ha mm, therefore according to Brigham Young he has a divine curse. Also Mormon doctrine would not permit Obama's mom and dad to marry in the Church, since the covenant against miscegenation still stands.
All of these comments just make me appreciate the 1st Amendment even more. Tolerance is what makes America great, and the intolerance of its citizens is the test. I guess this is a pop quiz.
God help us all on this disastrous path we're on. Obama/Biden, Reid and Pelosi together have bankrupted this nation. Totally inexcusable! They need to be Impeached!
Please, Senator Reid---your church's alleged regard for "family" has resulted in the imposition of extreme hardship on same-sex couples in Nevada, California and elsewhere. One would expect that the a church which survived terrible pogroms would support the right of minorities to enjoy the freedom it claims for itself. But if history has taught us anything, it's that it is far better to be an oppressor than an oppressee.
Did Reid and the mormons speak to Obama face-to-face, or did they have to speak to him through the veil? I just hope that they didn't try to speak to him in Middle Egyptian, as Obama - nor anyone else, for that matter - speaks or reads Middle Egyptian any more! And that's such a shame, since Middle Egyptian is such a lovely language.
Also, to DessertSun: Did you mean for your name to be "Desert" Sun, as in Mohave Desert, or did you actually mean it to be "dessert", as in chocolate cake and ice cream? Just wondering.
LVLawyerGal -- good one! You beat me to this one.
DessertSun -- are you available with fresh strawberries and extra whipped cream?
mwh710 -- exactly what "Satan-worshipping Cultist" are you referring to? Also, what's wrong with worshipping Satan? And exactly what "evil lie" is Mormonism "based in"?
Mormons are a cult and a very sick one at that. Mormons should be watched carefully. They are always intervening in politics,
Never mind. I was looking for the LSD church.
Wow. It really is very sad how all anti-mormons have nothing better to do than express their resentment towards members of the church. I have to admit i do feel sorry for those of you who put so much effort into doing this. It almost sounds like jealousy in some cases. But here's the thing - the more sarcastic, witty, amusing remarks you all come up with, the more humorous we are towards one another about what we're hearing. We love to listen to what new clever jokes you all have come up with. Honestly unless you have been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, than you have no idea what point you are trying to make against us. You all should do something worth the time AND effort, and do a little reseach about what we DO believe in and what we KNOW is true. You have no idea what your missing out on. But dont worry, like "jeff6382" tried explaining so carefully and nicely, was that for all of you, your time will come. The time when you'll have the choice to be forgiven and guess what, become a member of our church. thankyou