Should I Vote for a Mormon?
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More than a belief system, Mormonism is a cultural identity that shapes the worldview, values and lifestyle of those involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In this digital short Ross Anderson helps Christians to understand Mormon life and culture, answers the senstive question "Are Mormons Christians?", and finally tackles whether a Christian, in good conscience, can vote for a Mormon.
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson (D.Min., Salt Lake Seminary) is the founding pastor of Wasatch Evangelical Free Church in Roy, Utah, where he served for twenty-eight years. He is currently a teaching pastor at Alpine Community Church, a multisite congregation in northern Utah, and Director of Utah Advance Ministries. He was born in Utah and raised in California as an active member of the Mormon (Latter-day Saint) Church. His passions including planting culturally appropriate churches in Utah and incorporating former Mormons into the local church.
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Should I Vote for a Mormon? - Ross Anderson
Introduction
In the first decades of the twenty-first century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members have emerged into the national spotlight. Media from around the world featured the LDS Church in stories about the 2002 Winter Olympics. In 2008, the Latter-day Saints played a prominent role in California’s Proposition 8 vote over homosexual marriage. Church President Thomas S. Monson was named the most influential eighty-year-old in America. Mitt Romney has run for President twice, with the outcome of his second candidacy still in question at the publication of this piece. Harry Reid became the Senate majority leader. David Archuleta and Ken Jennings won fame on TV shows American Idol and Jeopardy, respectively. Glenn Beck gained a national audience as a political commentator. Stephanie Meyer sold millions of vampire novels. As the fourth largest denomination in the United States—and the richest per capita—the LDS Church has become a mainstream force, despite making up only about 2 percent of the American adult population.
Latter-day Saints don’t just live in Utah anymore. By 1990 about 30 percent of U.S. Mormons lived outside the western states, due in part to increased mobility in America after World War II as well as ongoing missionary activity. Many Americans have encountered Mormonism through familiar images like missionaries on bicycles, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, or the Mormons’ tightly knit families and clean lives. Almost half of all Americans actually know an active or devout Latter-day Saint. Most of us (71 percent) have seen Mormon ads on TV, and almost two-thirds of Americans have been approached by LDS missionaries at some time.
The Mormon people are very much like other Americans. They are about average in a wide variety of family attitudes