Well I'm sorry if that offended you but I don't see the Mormon religion as a religion, because then the church of scientology would be one as well. And even though they are very dangerous group compared to the Mormons, the beliefs are almost equally crazy.
Seriously, I see you have an avicon which is an Indian image right? They believe an Indian Angel contacted Joseph Smith and gave him the golden tablets and seer stones, and this Angel was white. This is explained to be because Indians used to be white but when god put them on the earth he made them red as punishment..
or something.. (more or less correct, I'm not an expert) so dark skinned people are dark skinned because they were punished by god?! you don't find that offensive?
just a small example.. oh and Adam and Eve used to lived in Virginia.
here's a wikipedia quote, source:
According to the Book of Mormon, a Lamanite (play /ˈleɪ.mʌn.aɪt/)[1] is a member of a dark-skinned nation of indigenous Americans that battled with the light-skinned Nephite nation. Although mainstream archaeologists, geneticists, and historians do not recognize the existence of Lamanites, adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement typically believe that the Lamanites comprise some part, if not the entirety, of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Polynesian people.
The Book of Mormon describes the Lamanites as descendants of Laman and Lemuel, two rebellious brothers of a family of Israelites who crossed the ocean in a boat around 600 BC. Their brother Nephi founded the Nephite nation. The Lamanites reputedly gained their dark skin as a sign of the curse for their rebelliousness (the curse itself being the withdrawal of the Spirit of God), and warred with the Nephites over a period of centuries. The book says that Jesus appeared and converted all the Lamanites to Christianity; however, after about two centuries, the Lamanites fell away and eventually exterminated all the Nephites. By the end of the Book of Mormon, the Lamanites were defined less by their skin color than by their lack of Christianity. Many Mormons believe that the Polynesian people originated from the descendents of Hagoth who led his people off on a ship and was never heard from again. Although Hagoth was a Nephite, these Mormons regard Polynesians as Lamanites.
The existence of a Lamanite nation has received no support within mainstream science or archaeology. Genetic studies indicate that the indigenous Americans are primarily from northeast Asia, and the Polynesians are from southeast Asia. This has led many Mormon apologetic scholars to hypothesize that the Lamanites were a small nation that merged with the indigenous population of northeast Asian origin and left no clear traces surviving into the modern world. Within the culture of Mormonism, indigenous Americans and Polynesians are still often called "Lamanites", but the practice is waning.
I can't see that he would govern against the will/majority of the people though. (unpopular veto) I think the gambling legislation may be impacted more on whether the Republicans take over the Senate in 2012 as they did with the House in 2010. (super majority)
