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MONDAY, JAN 30, 2012| 2 comments| 2 commentaries

Romney's tithing raises issue in other churches

Mitt Romney's tax returns reveal that the Republican presidential candidate does something fewer Americans do these days: He tithes.

Romney's 2009 and 2010 tax returns, released Tuesday, show that he and his wife, Ann, gave 10 percent of their income, about $4.1 million, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The couple reported income of about $43 million for the two years.

LDS church members must tithe to participate in temple rituals. Nearly 80 percent of Mormons tithe, a poll released this month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows. ...

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1/30/12 1:01 PM

Lerson

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"The couple reported income of about $43 million for the two years."

Romney would not be able to receive this teaching from Jesus either.

"Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me." Mk 10:21

1/30/12 12:24 AM

Skin

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A Temple-recommend Mormon has a higher buy-in. If all you ask is for ye olde Sinner's Prayer, that's what you'll get -- more-often-than-not -- and not a bit more.

"What you win them with, you when them to."
-David Wells

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