What does Mitt Romney believe?

The early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shared by the larger Latter Day Saint movement, which originated in upstate New York under the leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr.. With the important assistance of Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon, Smith dictated and published works of scripture, claimed he was visited by angels, and formed a new church. In part because of the rapid growth of the movement, and in part because of its distinct doctrines and practices, the early Latter Day Saints encountered opposition wherever they gathered in numbers. In the first decades of their history, they gathered to and were driven from Kirtland, Ohio; Independence, Missouri; Far West, Missouri; and Nauvoo, Illinois. Finally, on July 26, 1844, their founding prophet was assassinated in a jail at Carthage, Illinois.
Following the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young stated that the Church should be led by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (see Succession Crisis). Later, after the migration to Utah had begun, Brigham Young was sustained as a member of the First Presidency on December 25, 1847, (Wilford Woodruff Diary, Church Archives), and then as President of the Church on October 8, 1848. (Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, 3:318).

One of the reasons the Saints had chosen the Great Basin as a settling place was that the area was at the time outside the territorial borders of the United States, which Young had blamed for failing to protect Mormons from political opposition from the states of Missouri and Illinois. However, in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded the area to the United States. As a result, Brigham Young sent emissaries to Washington, D.C. with a proposal to create a vast State of Deseret, of which Young would naturally be the first governor. Instead, Congress created the much smaller Utah Territory in 1850, and Young was appointed governor in 1851. Because of his religious position, Young exercised much more practical control over the affairs of Mormon and non-Mormon settlers than a typical territorial governor of the time.

For most of the 19th century, the LDS Church maintained an ecclesiastical court system parallel to federal courts, and required Mormons to use the system exclusively for civil matters, or face church discipline (Mangrum 1983, pp. 80–81).
For several decades, polygamy was preached as God's law. Brigham Young, the Prophet of the church at that time, had quite a few wives, as did many other church leaders. This early practice of polygamy caused conflict between church members and the wider American society
In 2001, the church sent out a press release encouraging reporters to use the full name of the church at the beginning of news articles, with following references to the "Church of Jesus Christ". The release discouraged the use of the term "Mormon Church".
The cause of some of the church's most damaging publicity had to do with the church's policy of discrimination toward blacks, a policy that had begun during the administration of Brigham Young.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, homosexuality is officially seen as a set of "thoughts, feelings, and behaviors". The LDS church recognizes and officially welcomes its gay and lesbian members, under certain conditions. It teaches that homosexual feelings are sometimes inborn as these feelings are specifically separated from behavior, [1] and that although these feelings are sometimes unwanted, they can and should be controlled.[2] The church's law of chastity forbids gay and lesbian sex, which like straight pre-marital sex can be grounds for excommunication. Nevertheless, gay and lesbian Mormons may remain in good standing in the church, without ramification, if they abstain from homosexual relations
As other states, including Vermont and Massachusetts, began extending legal protections to same-sex couples, the Church continued to take an active role in preventing any legal recognition for families other than the heterosexual norm. In 2004, the Church officially endorsed an amendment to the United States Constitution banning marriage except between a man and a woman
Like others who call themselves Christians, Latter Day Saints profess faith or belief in the Old and New Testaments, in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior, crucified as a final offering for the debt of sin and resurrected. However, Latter Day Saints are not a branch of the Trinitarian tradition. They reject the theology positing the Trinity as expressed in the ecumenical creeds accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Trinitarian Protestantism. In the LDS view, although the Trinitarians believe in Christ they lack the priestly authorization and prophetic power that accompany the Restored Gospel, which give the Latter Day Saints the correct view of him and of salvation, and authorized worship and ordinances.
The founder and first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith Jr., stated that God, in a theophany (or "First Vision"), had indicated to him that all other Christian churches were in a state of apostasy and that he was to join none of them
[edit] Religion and Politics
The LDS Church has strict policies that no political activities can be conducted on church property, and that no church leaders are to comment on any particular candidate or political party while acting as a church official.[113] While all members are encouraged to be politically active, they are to vote according to their own conscience. There have been situations when the LDS church has taken an active political position on what they perceive as moral issues, such as homosexual marriage, as have many Christian sects. The discussion of politics during church meetings is strongly discouraged.[113] Although the majority of the LDS members within the United States are conservative, there is a significant number of politically liberal members. Since the majority of the LDS church members reside outside of the United States, such issues are meaningless or of little concern to many members.

Many Christian sects openly take part in political activities, and may endorse specific candidates that are believed to adhere to the values of the church or preacher. Some Christian leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. are well-known for combining their religious and political activities
Baptise for the dead ancestors is the reason for LDS church's keeping records of dead ancestors.
While souls in the spirit world are being taught the Gospel (read Doctrine and Covenants 138 - it's beautiful!), they are faced with a dilemma: they need baptism to enter into a covenant with Christ and receive a washing away of their sins, etc., but they lack physical bodies in which to be baptized.
The church of LDS and Mitt Romony believe that the LDS church is the final authory on all things including Goverment.
Have not we learned anything by having George Bush for president? do we really want another leader that will excuse any action he does by saying "GOD TOLD ME SO."