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Originally Posted by guy44
I find that hard to believe. First of all, I can't help but see a little bit of "JFK will be run by the Vatican" in that kind of thinking. Also, even if Romney was taking orders from Salt Lake, I doubt the folks there thought they could micromanage his Presidential campaign. Empirically speaking, his father ran as a socially moderate, fiscally conservative Republican. Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader for the Democrats. And Mitt himself was his father's kind of politician while serving as Governor of Massachusetts. I don't know for sure, of course, whether running as the MBA candidate would work for him, but I think it might have.
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Well I base that comment on having worked with three LDS members and one ex LDS member. Two of the three told me any major decision in your life must be cleared by the church. I found that odd and asked "what do you mean by major?" "Moves, job changes stuff like that." Decisions by the church are something called "words of wisdom." Failing to follow these words will lead to your being shunned.
After knowing them and reading some article I think it's completely possible.
BTW the ex LDS member was pretty much thrown out of the church for wanting to divorce her husband who was molesting their daughter. Church said no, work it out. She filed anyway, they tossed her. The other two people I worked with, from what I saw, never spoke a word to her.