Utah state rep. says Obama nominee for ambassador to China will try to convert China to Mormonism

[Bluebear]

Well this should go over well. As the Utah state representative explained in a Web posting that was quickly removed - unfortunately for him, Google lives on - soon to be US Ambassador to China, Republican governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, himself a Mormon, is under ecclesiastical mandate to proselytize to the Chinese when he goes to there to be Obama's ambassador. He has no choice.

Let Huntsman deny it. Let Obama deny it. It doesn't matter. Our next Ambassador to China will be using his post to try to convert the Chinese to Mormonism, and more generally, to let the Mormons into China where they can then run around the country and spread their ideology.

I suspect the Chinese, not know for their tolerance of dissident groups trying to indoctrinate their people, are going to flip.

Here is what the Utah state rep. wrote:

This is a big deal for the Governor, Utah, the United States, and…the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

Although the LDS church’s missionary program has an ecclesiastical presence throughout many parts of the world, the countries with the largest population bases (China and India) are not currently open to the church’s missionary efforts. Huntsman served his LDS mission as a 19 year old young man in the Taiwan Taipei Mission in the early 1980’s. He has since been back to the Far East on a number of occasions. Huntsman not only takes to China his political acumen but also a lifetime of membership in the LDS church. This should bode well for the LDS church’s mission to spread the gospel throughout the world, since all members of the LDS faith are under divine mandate to…”Go ye therefore, and teach all nations…” (Matt 28:19)

Huntsman’s ambassadorship not only puts him in an excellent position to address US-China relations, it puts him in an even better position to teach the gospel…in Mandarin.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/mormon-utah-state-rep-says-obama.html

[Ian David]

1. Like to see him try! n/t

[Ian David]

2. He'll convert ONE. But then an hour after converting a Chinese, you feel like converting again. n/t

[grantcart]

6. DUzy

[bluestateguy]

3. Wonder how that would square with China's one child policy?

Mormons are not known for their small family sizes.

[DJ13]

4. Funny he had no criticism of him as Governor

Its only after he accepts a position from Obama that now theres this sudden concern.

[Bluebear]

9. Oh, would you expect concern that he would be converting Utahans to Mornonism?

[Mz Pip]

5. A few billion people

ought to keep him busy for quite some time.

Knock yourself out Ambassador.

[rox63]

7. For all of his failings, Mittens Romney did not try to convert the state of Massachusetts to LDS

I doubt Huntsman will try to convert the Chinese. That would be an easy way to piss them off and get sent back home.

[jkshaw]

8. Harry Reid hasn't tried converting the Senate to

Mormonism, and according to Representative Craig Frank, he has an obligation to do that. I don't think Governor Huntsman is lame-brained enough to try it with the Chinese, regardless of his church mission to China decades ago.

The Utah state senator who apparently wrote that piece about Huntsman's mandate, Craig Frank, represents American Fork in Utah. He was appointed to fill a vacancy by state delegates, then went through two elections during which no one else was on the ballot to oppose him. Recently Frank floated the idea of a caffeine tax (Mormons are not supposed to drink anything containing caffeine), but after a small uproar said he was only kidding.

Huntsman is very intelligent. He knows better than to look upon his religion as obligating him to create a disaster for the US.

Link outlining Frank's proseletyzing message -- http://www.gop12.com/2009/05/utah-state-rep-excited-about-huntsmans.html