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Utah State Rep. Craig Frank says that Obama's appointment of Mormon Jon Huntsman provides an opportunity to convert China.

2009 May 29 post from skipintro

This, from the blog of a Utah State Rep. Craig Frank, may not be quite what Huntsman and Obama were thinking:

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.

The blog has since been scrubbed, GOP 12 reports , but it lives on on Google .

Comments

at 11:07 a.m. on May 29, 2009, daleandersen says...

China will soon open to all religions. As Communism falls and the blinders are cast off, people "wake up." In Russia, where real professionals did all they could over 75 years to stamp out all religion, the Russian Orthodox Church is now stronger than ever. The Patriarch of Moscow recently died and Putin himself was the chief mourner. Under Stalin or Brezhnev, that would have been unthinkable.

All around China, religious missionaries are at work. In Taiwan and South Korea, especially. South Korea is now majority Christian. It's first democratically-elected President, Kim Dae-Jung (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) was a Christian.

As for the Mormons, they are especially active on China's border in Mongolia.

http://tinyurl.com/mormons-in-mongolia

at 11:15 a.m. on May 29, 2009, skipintro says...

I don't doubt that; I just find it astonishing that an elected rep, on a state of Utah government blog, posts about his hopes for our Chinese ambassador to seek and obtain converts. I would hope that Hunstman would represent the interests of the United States of America, not some "religion." No indication that he won't--but this makes me very suspicious of Mormons.

at 6:01 p.m. on May 29, 2009, daleandersen says...

What I find interesting is how Americans have changed in the last generation or so about God. Fifty years ago, if a politician had said he intended to go to some foreign land and spread the word about Jesus, no one would have squawked. But now, everyone get a hair up his ass.

I attribute it to the effects of dumb down. But, hey, that's me...

at 9:43 p.m. on May 29, 2009, swirsky says...

As a Jew (happy Shavuos, by the way) who is as concerned as you are with the dumbing of America, I don't think it's appropriate for someone representing the United States to think it's appropriate to spread the word about "Jesus" or the other panoply of "prophets" and assorted space-creatures the "Mormons" hang their beliefs on. To be fair, Huntsman did nothing inappropriate. It was Utah State Rep. Frank who believes its an Ambassador's duty to seek religious converts.

at 10:59 p.m. on May 29, 2009, daleandersen says...

I was being glib...

at 8:07 a.m. on May 30, 2009, swirsky says...

Glib or not, it's interesting how FEW are squawking now! Just those who either have an ax to grind with the Mormon "Church" (often justifiably) or people who aren't Chr-stian, seemed to have noticed this.

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