“Think of all the Mormons who have to die before a man gets to be president.”
July 12th, 2007 by John Mansfield
LDS News
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- Church Donates Fruit to U.S. Food Pantries
- President Monson Travels to Mexico City for Temple Rededication
- First Presidency Urges Respect, Civility in Public Discourse
- Catholic Bishops Decry Religious Bigotry Against Mormons
- Church Responds to Jewish News Statements
- Church Issues Statement on Proposition 8 Protest
- Catholic Bishop Decries Religious Bigotry Against Mormons
- Church Responds to Same-Sex Marriage Votes
When I first read the quote, I thought it had something to do with a Mormon man being POTUS.
A non-political post, how ingenius! *smirk*
You got me too, John! My first thought was Romney’s candidacy for POTUS!
Yeah, without saying which president, we think first of POTUS. And so, is Romney going beyond recoiling from his ancestors’ polygamy? Or is John McCain explaining what it would take for him to bring evangelical voters to his camp at last?
A reminder, as if we needed one, that Time has always been publishing crappy articles about Mormonism.
Oh, Kent, I’ve got another older and worse than than that one saved up.
I’ll note that Joseph Fielding Smith was ordained an apostle on 7 April 1910 at age 33 and became president after David O. McKay died on 23 January 1970. So nearly 60 years in the line-up, eighteen on deck as President of the Quorum of the Twelve. In addition, at the time the quote was printed, the eleven apostles called immediately after him had already died, as well as four others. He had seen the combined membership of the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency turn over twice.
I like the open-minded, global worldview expressed by the Brazillian quoted on page 1:
“The danger to the world today is not Communism, but Mormonism. You people work fast in our country with smiles and songs. Then you have lots of children, who study and get ahead of our kids. Then you get yourselves elected to government positions and boom! you pass a law banning coffee and Brazil falls flat on her face.”
Query: have Mormons or Mormon-dominated political entities (i.e., village/town councils, state legislatures, etc.) ever actually tried to ban coffee?
Oh, and Joseph Fielding Smith was a funny man.
One of the things I like about the JFS quote is that he is joking about whether he or Pres. McKay will die first. I like the confidence of that. Maybe if Thomas Monson were twenty years older, he’d make jokes like that too.
Sarah, I served my mission in Brazil and LOVED the smell of coffee in the morning…still do! I would sooner ban diet cola than ban coffee.