Lawarance O'Donnell slaps Romney and Mormonism

[theQiwiMan]

Hey Lawarance, you mad, bro?

[Homertoeclipper]

Lawrence, poor Lawrence.... Uneducated, intellectually irresponsible, and morally dangerous. Another unfortunate Hollywood idiot of the day who never cracks a smile, and is more at home beating his wife and kicking his dog than having a beer with an average Bluto.

And this guy gets paid for berating people....a shame in this society.

[vegtamvanderveg]

Instead of simply calling for the abolition of slavery, Joseph Smith’s platform would have Congress “pay every man a reasonable price for his slaves out of the surplus revenue arising from the sale of public lands, and from the deduction of pay from members of Congress.” 1

[fujitsujjacksonjr]

I don't get how a faith can be racist to blacks yet black people join the church well before 1978 on their own free will. But then again it's Lawrence O'Donnell.

[3soccerstars]

Still waiting for a good, honest candidate to say organized religion is a crock and just a form of social control.

All bible-thumpers are idiots. Scopes-Monkey revisited?

Watch George Carlin's "Religion is Bullshit" here...

[distantskunk]

O'Donnell is making many false claims. What he doesn't want to understand, is that Mormons were anti-slavery, and were persecuted for going against slavery. The Mormons consider ALL people children of God, and served the black people and welcomed them into the church from the beginning. It was the burden and responsibilities of the Priesthood that the black men did not receive until the late 1970's. Big difference. Also, the Priesthood members do not get paid. Black or White. It is service.

[lindalds]

And Joseph Smith was NOT pro-slavery, in fact, if he was honest, and he's not, Joseph Smith ran for president on an abolitionist platform.

He believes the faith of his fathers, O'Donnell doesn't know what he's talking about, and he yells his lies over everyone else, in front of God and everyone.

He's a liar.

[lindalds]

He's so wrong about what Mormons believe about blacks. And even if Romney told him he's wrong, this man would never believe him.

I guess they'll let anyone say anything they want on television, and damn the truth.

[mormonanswerman]

Larry O'Donnell plays FLDS and knows nothing about our religion apparently, or of other religions. Since when did presidential candidates repudiate their religion??? Did Kennedy talk of all the pedofile priests and the dark ages, etc.? Did anyone talk of all the slavery of their faith before they ran for president?

What an absolute anti-mormon tool he is, he just spouts off and no one on the show agreed with his bigotry and double standard. Outrageous slanderer.

[monitorpotato]

Romney never had any say about the blacks. He had to follow other men with his eyes closed.

I know for a fact that "all" Mormons would have changed this racist doctrine in the 50s if they had any voice in it.

[borat443]

There were baptist, and mormons and catholics that supported racism or turned a blind eye, in the US, all these flag wrapped people in this country supported, genocide of the indians,mexicans and blacks in the US, but they hate abortion thats funny. $%^& occult groups and their spooky knowledge..

[Winterstick549]

Damn, what a nutjob. Could have sworn there were Baptist, etc, slave owners, but what do I know. Never knew Mormons had ever controlled the deep south.

[floppydog56]

This guy is a bigot. Please explain to me when the SBC officially banned slavery?

[snarff]

Before you get all outraged about this guy's comments, consider whether you'd vote for an atheist.

[Yunginspirit]

It's difficult for me to comprehend how an intolerant bigot like this O'Donnell guy can judge another church/person for what they "choose to think, or believe." Isn't this the reason why Jesus Christ himself was killed? Because his teachings were different to the Jews and for political reasons? The freedom to worship how we choose is a great blessing in this country!

GO MITT GO!

[Yunginspirit]

How ridiculous for this bigoted numbskull Lawrence to accuse LDS as being pro-slavery... they weren't. Wasn't half of America at the time pro-slavery? (Many different religions were involved.) But the Mormon Church was always against slavery. Too, Segregation wasn't done away with until the 1960's finally! Blacks were always able to be baptized but not hold the Priesthood until 1979. They were never consigned to hell until then.

[luxfero]

mormons believe the israelites were white native americans, who were cursed dark because the father of their race didnt follow nephi. nephi was supposely a prophet of god

[beboystyle]

O'donnell does not know what he is talking about. The LDS church was not racist. They were never racists.  In fact, Joseph Smith helped a black man back in the 1800s just to name one act of kindness towards Black Americans. The LDS church allowed all people into the Church before 1978.

[blm256]

Face it people, there is not a single organized, popular religion that I know of that hasn't, at some point in its history, kept particular ethnic groups or women down with bigotry and bias except Unitarian Universalism. Any one wish to challenge this very skeptical theologian?

[kolobkrunch]

yah AND HERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOU TO FACE MORmON APOLIGIST! NONE of those other churches claimed to be the product of modern day revelation with GOD himself at the helm.

SO WHY IS MORmON GOD SUCH A RACIST POS?

[getdownto311]

@kolobkrunch just because you have ZERO understanding doesnt mean its idiotic!

[Kyon65]

beboystyle-

"The LDS church was not racist."

Do you think the amount of times you repeat that statement will somehow make it true?

Honestly, LDS DOCTRINE taught that black people "turned away from god" in heaven, and were cursed!

Its idiotic, as are all religions.

[0mgwhat]

well he's not a mormon nor does he play one on TV. The people on Big Love aren't mormons either.

[mpetrie]

This man is a lying piece of trash. Mormons were heavily persecuted not only for their beliefs but also because they were ABOLITIONISTS! They were 100% opposed to slavery. Romney said when the church announced that blacks could now hold Priesthood positions, he pulled over to the side of the road and wept with joy. His father marched with Martin Luther King. He has no clue what he's talking about and there is NO Mormon doctrine that says blacks are or were inferior.

[Teekles]

@mpetrie the color of your skin shouldn't determine your righetousness, merely suggesting that God cursed people and denoted it by the color of their skin is simply racist. Before science, skin color didn't have a known causal explanation; maybe then you could argue it wasn't racist. Knowing why people have different color skins and knowing it has no relationship to their moral standards and protecting the book of mormon is also racist.

[franciscoanconia]

O'Donnell should be more concerned about being gay than the doctrinal tenets of churches that he has neither the character or moral discipline to join.

[bzemky]

But what would you say to actually rebut what he is saying? Or do you just want to change the subject?

[HiveRadical]

Yes. It's quite easy to rebut what he's saying. His assertions are based upon layer after layer of presumption and false assumption. Some of his statements are demonstrably wrong. I can take you to actual words and accounts of Joseph Smith that demonstrated he, as much or more than anyone, wanted slavery abolished, it was one of the platforms of Joseph's run for the presidency.

[HiveRadical]

25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

[vorosfold]

This guy is a bigot.

All faiths evolve to a certain degree. This guy is a wreck.

[bzemky]

One difference here is that Romney was a member of the church when it was racist.

[mpetrie]

Explain this to me... Jesus must have been racist too. He refused to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles and only finally allowed his Apostles to take it to them after his ascension into heaven.

[HiveRadical]

And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

[HiveRadical]

Jesus refered to a woman of Canaan, and her ethnicity, as "dogs."

Was Christ 'racist'?

[ravagetime]

"I'm not a Mormon, but [I think] I play one on TV." Well then he must be right.

[bzemky]

I doubt he intended that line to be anything other than humorous.

[ravagetime]

But he's not funny.