Romney, Mormonism and Presidency of The United States of America

Jan. 26, 2008 - PRLog -- Only hard statistics can answer the question:

United States of America (Press Release) January 26, 2008 --
Data from the U.S. Govt. Census Bureau lists Utah [Utah 70% Mormon] as the state with the lowest teen pregnancy rate and the lowest abortion rate in the United States.

Utah was ranked as the #1 best state in which to raise children in the 1996 rankings by the Children's Rights Council. And, Utah remained No. 1 in the nation for fewest one-parent families.

Politicians and Ministers may make flowery speeches or defame, but statistics speak the facts.

Utah as having the fewest births to unwed mothers.

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Latter-day Saint men and women were leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, and Utah was the second place in the world where women had the right to vote.

LDS (Mormon) women are more likely to graduate from college than Catholic or Protestant women... LDS women are more likely to be employed in professional occupations than Catholic or Protestant women.

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Latter-day Saints generally adhere strictly to their health code which prohibits the use of tobacco and alcohol. These practices have always shown up in national health data, which consistently rate Utah as having the lowest rates of smoking, alcohol use, lung cancer,… and related diseases.

Utah is second-lowest U.S. state in admissions to state mental hospitals and Utah ranked lowest per-capita alcohol consumption.

Utah as the number 1 healthiest city in the country for women. The article said that the Mormon influence is the reason women in Provo experience such low incidents of cancer, smoking, drinking, violence, depression, etc.
The smoking rate among Utah teens is the lowest in the nation: 7.3% in Utah, compared to 16.9% nationally.

Utah "spends a larger percentage of state dollars on education" than any other state.

Also, because of the high proportion of Latter-day Saints and the Church's own comprehensive welfare system, Utah spends much less of its budget on public welfare than the other states. "On average, other states spend 22.4 percent of their budgets on public welfare; Utah spends 14 percent."

Utah also has the lowest child poverty rate in the county.

According to IRS tax returns, Utahans rank first among all U.S. states in the proportion of income given to charity... Utah ranked highest in the number of persons per family, with an average of 3.6.

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The American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) Report Card on Education 1996 reported that Utah was ranked 7th academically in the nation, despite the fact that the state spent less money (49th in expenditures per pupil) than most other states.

In the 1987 General Social Survey project funded by the National Science Foundation, 56.7% of Latter-day Saints surveyed identified themselves as "born-again" Christians, a statistical tie with Baptists, and a figure higher than many other Christian denominations.

"A recent national Advanced Placement [AP] study found Utah ranked first in the nation in both [AP] exams taken and exams passed on a per capita basis. Utah has one of the highest high school graduation rates in the nation.

Latter-day Saints (and who marry in a Latter-day Saint temple) have the lowest divorce rate among all U.S. social and religious groups studied... 5.4 percent..."

Utah ranks first in personal computer ownership, according to a U.S. Commerce Department survey: "More Utah homes have computers 66.1 percent than anywhere else in the nation."

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Brigham Young University campuses now include those in Jerusalem, Provo, Idaho and Hawaii. Church members are encouraged to get all the education they can. The Church has emphasized education since its early history, starting with founder Joseph Smith who formed a "School of the Prophets" in 1833.

The 1999 Places Rated Almanac (IDG Books) ranked the Salt Lake City-Ogden metro area as the best place to live in North America. In November 2000, Money Magazine ranked Salt Lake City as the "West's most livable metropolis."

An Associated Press article (27 December 1999,Salt Lake Tribune) reported that... Utah ranks fourth highest among all states in the proportion of "high-quality" [military] enlistees.

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Some Things Invented by Latter-day Saints (Mormons):
• television - Philo Farnsworth
• electric traffic light - Lester Wire
• odometer - William Clayton
• headphones - Nathaniel Baldwin
• hearing aid - Harvey Fletcher
• audiometer - Harvey Fletcher
• stereo sound - Harvey Fletcher
• video games - Nolan Bushnell
• transistor radio - Marvin Harris
• modern word processor - Alan Ashton (WordPerfect) [Read the history online]
• CD/DVD technology - Robert B. Ingebretsen (plus other physicists, engineers and computer scientists at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah)
• electric guitar - Alvino Rey
• department store - ZCMI, world's first dept. store, started by Brigham Young
• fry sauce - Don Carlos Edwards
• scrapbooking - [Source: CNN]
• Zip drive - Iomega
• repeating rifle ("Browning rifle") - Jonathan Browning
• automatic shotgun (and many more firearms) - John Moses Browning
• NetWare (Network Operating System) - Drew Major
• condominums - Keith Romney
• women's buttonless one-piece bathing suit - Rose Marie Reid (patent #2,535,018)
• photopermeable swimsuit - Rose Marie Reid (for full-body tanning)
• flatbed scanner
• DOOM, Quake, Civilization, Age of Empires, etc. - Sandy Petersen
• artificial heart - Robert K. Jarvik (inventor/doctor) & Barney Clark (first recipient)
• heart bypass machine used in open heart surgery - Homer R. Warner
• numerous patents for beam-surface processes (in free-electron lasers) - Norman Tolk
• Slurry (aqueous) explosives - Melvin Cook (Nobel Prize winner)
• tetrahedron press - William Hall
• synthetic diamonds - William Hall
• Sorenson video codec - James L. Sorenson
• various bionic body parts - "Utahns blaze path in bionic body parts"  
• Odometer,  William Clayton, who was crossing the plains in a covered wagon.

Some Things Discovered by Latter-day Saints (Mormons):
• Absolute Rate Theory of chemical reactions - Henry Eyring
• mechanism of ATP synthesis - Paul Boyer
• soil physics - Wilford Gardner

Brigham Young University and the University of Utah both rank among the top 10 colleges nationwide at turning ideas into cash.

Mormon Beliefs that might influence political thought and action:

Three of the "13 Articles of Faith" (core beliefs) of the LDS Church are:

1. We believe in God the Eternal Father and in His Son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost."

2. We believe in worshiping according to the dictates of our own conscience and allow all men the same privileged. Let them worship how where or what they may.

3. We believe in …honoring, obeying and sustaining the law of the land.

On the US Constitution:
...Constitution of The United States is a God Inspired document. The framers of the Constitution were raised up by God for that very purpose.

On Separation of Church and State:
Mormons believe the roll of the church is to teach correct principals, then let the people govern themselves. They are strict about not using the pulpit for political purposes.

References:
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_lds_inv.html

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