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May 1st, 2012
02:41 PM ET
House candidate and rising GOP star is black, female - and MormonBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - To call Mia Love a minority is an understatement. She’s a black woman who won an upset primary race to become the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. If elected, she’d be the first black Republican congresswoman in the House of Representatives. Love, who has attracted lots of national Republican support, also stands out because of her religion: She’s a Mormon. The politician is a poster child for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ campaign to present a more diverse face to a historically very white church. “There are a lot of people who have tried to define me as a person,” Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, told CNN’s Kyra Phillips in an interview Tuesday. “I’m not a victim, and I don’t allow anybody to put me in a box.” Speaking from Salt Lake City, she said, “There may be some challenges. But ... I love this place and love the people that are here, and I represent their beliefs and values.” CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories Love is featured in a video series produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of its “I’m a Mormon” campaign, which aims to bring the faith of about 14 million members worldwide into the mainstream. In the CNN interview, Love talked about how Mormonism would affect Mitt Romney’s candidacy more than her own, which is happening in the most Mormon state in the nation. “You know I don’t think those are the issues that Americans really care about,” Love said when asked about the role of Romney’s religion in the presidential campaign. “I think Americans care about jobs, the economy; they care about the debt and deficit spending. … Being a Mormon is part of who he is as a person, and I don’t think it should deter from the issues.” Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter Love’s “I’m a Mormon” video shows her working as the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, her current job. “I am the mayor of Saratoga Springs and I love it,” she says in the video. “I get to make this life better for me and better for others. “My friends from back home are always saying, ‘What are you doing in Utah?'” she says in the video, referring to her East Coast upbringing. “What they don’t know is that when I came here I felt accepted.” Watch CNN Newsroom weekdays 9am to 3pm ET and weekends. For the latest from the CNN Newsroom click here. soundoff (2,038 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Next »
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I don't care in the least about Mitt Romney's religion or his spiritual beliefs. I do however care about this man's poltical, social and economic agenda. And they are in my view, awful..
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just because the only mormons you have ever seen are white does not mean that all of their members are. if you actually look outside of your small area of the world you'd realize that all races have people among them that are mormon. i once even met a few that were originally from Pakistan (pardon the spelling), very nice people. 🙂
LMAO
ANOTHER DUMB TOKEN BEING USED BY THE RACIST GOP.
Where are you at on this one, wontonsoy?
wontonsoy supports your post while decrying broad generalizations.
Agreed. They want the black vote and they will use her to get it, but they will treat her like a second-class citizen because of her race.
Last chance to prove you aren't a hypocrite, wontonsoy.....last chance!
Uh-oh. Or what?
You're pathetic.
I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but we might have another Sarah Palin on our hands. Yikes!
How about if we start ignoring physical characteristics and become a colorblind genderblind religionblind society. Then we can select candidates and leaders on the basis of their qualification and "the content of their character."
Because that would be a meritocracy and not a democracy, stupid. The ruling elite do not want a meritocracy, they want dumb bunnies they can scare into voting how they direct.
Dumas
The big question is can she pass the GOP Evangelical /Tea Party purity tests?
Funny, the mormons are openly racist and anti- female, she must never have read the book of mormon. Dumb gop puppet
Funny, you must not know many Mormons.
In her own words, she felt accepted by by the people of Utah (mostly Mormons) and obviously she hasn't been coerced into running for office as a Republican. Find another crutch for your feeble mind to lean on.
Thats great!
This is the freedom we protect for one to serve in what ever waythatthey choose for which ever party or faith.
My hats off to her !!
This is the heart of what our democracy is about the best of luck to her in her inher district
Oh, dear! Whatever will the liberals do now? Will they call her a traitor and tell her she should be ashamed, the way Harry Reid did to female Hispanic Republicans like me? According to the Dems, the GOP is made up of only rich, elitist white folks, right? Thank you, Mia Love, for shoving their faces in their own manure.
Congratulations for having the ignorance to vote against your best interest. Seriously, kudos to you. You're so brave.
They'll employ the "Uncle Tom" label. Straight out of the DNC handbook.
Look at there voting record, not the people, but the actual politicians. They vote exclusively for rich white ideals. I don't think you are a traitor, just ignorant. They are using this woman in the same way they tried to use palin, it will back fire just like it did with her.
I don't believe she is rubbing our faces in anything. She is simply a brainwashed half-wit oreo.
You ARE a traitor and you SHOULD be ashamed! You have no shame, I guess. GOP must love you stupid f**cks like crazy.
...and delusional...
She will bring out the inherent racism in every American liberal.
Way to speak out about making sweeping generalizations by making a sweeping generalization. Next time you have a thought, write it down, look at it, consider it, and then slap yourself.
yr a godammed moron.
"yr a godammed moron."
Classy.
wontonsoy – something tells me that if I had generalized Team Red, you would have given me a thumbs up.
Keep on making your decisions and judgments based on guesses. That's a smart way to argue/live.
wontonsoy – you going to reply to JUGGERNAUT above or let that one slide? Partisan fool.
So if I don't go through all the comments and yell at every left-leaning troll I'm a partisan? Seriously, examine that. As a strategy for argument. I mean for allah's sake, "Team Red?" Do you really think of them as teams? And I'M the partisan?
Go to your room, turn off your video games, and think about what you've done.
Just going to let that one slide, eh? Nah, you're not a hypocrite partisan shill. Not at all.
Stop pointing over my shoulder because you don't like the fight that's happening in front of you. Some moron being a troll elsewhere does not vindicate your pathetic ramblings. You called a group ignorant while exhibiting the very ignorance you were decrying. That makes YOU a hypocrite. That doesn't change because I don't go and poke every troll on the god damn site. You're a moron, your opinions are laughable, and you act like a child.
"inherent racism"? Do you mean to tell me you are reallly that incredibly disgustingly stupid?
Oh, you're a Reptard. That explains everything.
U mad bro? You mad! I couldn't be happier. You know the funny thing is that I abhor conservatives as much as I abhor liberals. It's just so much more gratifying to infuriate a self-righteous, liberal hypocrite like yourself. Suck it you sanctimonious shmuck.
How else can the media describe this new contender for Congress, other than what they have, Bill Dee? Being part of the human race you are either male or female, being of any race you are that, and being in a religion you are that. These are not labels, these statistics are who you are.
Of course she's not American born. No American born black person with half a brain respects the Mormon "Church". The only black mormons are almost 100% all foreign born, where the mormon missionaries could ply them with half-truths. Mormons did not allow black members in their "churches" until the 1970s, when the government was on their backs – at which time, some "church leader" had a bloody "revelation". American born blacks know what time it is at the Mormon "church". A bunch of bigots. Let this woman get her "15 minutes".
I know about thirty or forty american born black mormons... They all probably have a higher education (both in manners and academically) than you.
This is silly. Most black Americans, though they're not Mormon, are religious. Glass houses, my friend. Your cult is no better than their cult.
Trouble is, most of them don't have half a brain.
Jez, you're not only a total idiot who's beyond ignorant, but you're also a d-bag. Good luck in life.
Jez is right. They tell the starved idiots the bs hooks and never tell the whole truth.
.....and this is news because???????????
Any black woman who becomes a Mormon is either grossly uninformed about the history of that "church" or she is just capitalizing on her religion.
I concur 100%.
No you're the one grossly uninformed. They're probably 3000 times more informed than you because they study it on a daily basis instead of believing everything someone says one or twice here and there about Mormons.
When my younger sister was baptized Mormon, I did a lot of research on the LDS. I also read "No Man Knows My History" about Joseph Smith. Then I studied the actually theology of the LDS, which most Mormons won't even talk about because it is, basically, pantheism. As far as the Church's view of blacks is concerned, it has been a racist organization throughout its history.
i totally agree, any black person for that matter. Mormons used to believe that black people where cursed by God and thats how we got our darker skin (Cain and Abel). i know they moved from that belief but i wasnt biblical to begin with and still rings in my mind.
Agreed JRJ – she looks like a morman moron
What is with all the mormons all of a sudden in the GOP. Is this a new thing or has it been happening for a long time? Anybody know?
There are many conservative and many progressive Mormons. Harry Reid (democrat) is a Mormon too. The republican Mormons have received more press recently for obvious reasons.
In the comments I have seen comments like,:
"Coming from a black man, in our community if you're black and a republican then you're an Uncle Tom"
"Perhaps she's using the fact minorities rarely become republicans to jump ahead."
"Simple: 'Token'"
I thought it was the Republicans who are racist? This is kind of like the pot calling the kettle BLACK.
That is because you do not know the very negative history the mormon church has with black people in this country. We know. This woman is "fronting". Pathetic.
Jez you're a blow hard. Lets say the catholics who started slavery then are the most racist of all. Or Lutherans who fed the nazi propaganda machine with all the propaganda they needed to exterminate the jews. Just because someone made a mistake in the past doesn't mean they are still making the mistake. To the contrary this is proof they've changed and some people are willing to let bygones be bygones
She is being used, & she doesnt even realize it
Not you though. You are clearly an independent, open minded thinker.
Yep, my thoughts exactly.
LOL @ sancho! Good one!
I agree with Kazoo – this is sad.
Right, because surely no black woman could actually be trusted to know her mind and stand by her convictions.
(^^^ Sarcasm ^^^)
Black, Mormon and Conservative? Quick! Find a way to marginalize her!
As long as news media outlets continue to label people as "black, female and mormon" (or similar in covering other news) racial profiling and stereo-typing will remain alive and well in America.