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Liberals: “Well, Giving to the Mormon Church Doesn’t Count as Charitable Giving”

The Romney campaign once and for all satisfied the yelping hunger of the media, Harry Reid, and liberals everywhere today by releasing more tax returns. According to the details, which really are void of any real details to be honest, the returns showed in large part the Mr. and Mrs. Romney gave nearly 30% of their income to charity, which is higher than the President and the First Lady who gave 21%. Joe Biden gave so little to charity I don’t even remember the percentage it was so minuscule.

But what stood out to me weren’t the numbers or percentages, but the narrative it gave to Mitt Romney and how it potentially debunks this “Gordon Gecko” caricature created by the media.

Mitt Romney for the most part is a caring, wealthy man who likes to give his money to noble causes. But, such causes well, you know in the eyes of the liberal, and for the sake of feeding crow to the doggy under the table, not surprisingly they took to Politico’s website where the story was featured on the front page, and they tried their darn best to explain away and diminish Mitt Romney’s not so cold, heartless, greedy true self.

Some comments read, “Well giving to the Mormon church doesn’t count as charity”, or “The Romney’s grew up with wealth so it doesn’t change things”. There were also a few comments going after the Mormon religion calling it a cult and trying to smear millions of people in order to wave off Mitt Romney’s tax return non revelation

Look, the man wasn’t hiding any secret bank accounts or secret oil deals or secret files to another top secret account owned by a secret society in Utah. He pays his taxes, over pays in fact, gives a lot to charity, his church, and keeps the rest. No smoking gun, no bombshell, or any other weapon related metaphor to describe the “elusive” Romney tax returns. Although I imagine these two scenarios taking place: A.: The media will ignore the fact that he gives more to charity than Mr. Obama because by ignoring those facts it won’t damage the president’s chief argument which is class warfare and Mitt Romney being out of touch and a fat cat evil rich monger. Or B.: The media will try and find something, anything within those tax returns to hit Mr. Romney over the head.

Give it up, the man’s an all around guy, just deal with it. Why is it such an obsessive desire for the media to paint Romney as Ebeneezer Scrooge? I mean  know why but is that all they’re about?

Oh and for those liberals who believe giving to churches don’t count as real charitable giving let me educate you: When folks give money to their churches the church can in turn provide services to the community be it food for the homeless, shelters for battered women, bibles for the lost, youth programs, missionary work around the world, and vital tools that maintain the functionality of the church it self. So yeah, it means something when folks give to the Lord’s house.

The reason why liberals don’t consider giving to churches real charitable giving is because most liberals don’t go to church or practice religion other than idol worship. You can keep your flawed men deities and golden government calf, I’ll stick with the Son of Man.

COMMENTS

  • Viet71

    Giving to the Mormon Church is charitable giving for federal income tax purposes.

    Any statement to the contrary is either political or ignorant or both.

    • Mike Ferguson

      Or maybe its both a Good thing and happens to help on taxes.

  • Mike Ferguson

    Also when you give to churches somewhere north of 90% of what you give actually gets to the people who need it, the government, well you can clip off 50% or more right off the bat to pay all the bureaucratic costs.

    • streiff

      nowhere near 50% makes its way to recipients via federal programs.

  • http://lvjohnston.blogspot.com/ lvjohnston

    The local church was the original social service group, long before liberals decided that they could collect the money, give to their backers and gain the votes of those they claimed to assist.

    According to the liberal mindset, it’s not charity because they do not get to decide who will receive the assistance!

  • proudmarinemom

    Liberals are so disgusting. “Giving to the Mormon Church doesn’t count?” While I support Catholic Charities and Children’s Miracle Network primarily, the Church of LDS is an extremely generous congregation that I will now consider more carefully for my charitable contributions. We cannot take our wealth with us, and only God knows what we truly give. What could be more rewarding than following Mitt and Ann Romney’s example and giving quietly, generously and without expecting to be recognized for it?

  • Kyle-MI

    Can’t speak for the Mormon church, but my Lutheran congregation is helping a member who is a sweat senior lady still living in her house but can’t get around much. We are lining up other members to make meals for her and check up on her. And that is only a small portion of what we do. Can you tell me with a straight face that doesn’t count as charity?

    • proudmarinemom

      The only people who criticize others’ charity are those who give NONE. I learned this a long time ago. If you are a person who steps up to help whenever it is needed, you simply do not have it in you to criticize others. Those who know what it takes do not bash others.

      • tnfriendofcoal101368

        Indeed, Joe Biden’s “charity” for the 10 years could feed and house a family of four for a couple of months if they were willing to be vegetarians. Mitt Romney’s would put that family in Eva Longoria’s mansion; eating caviar and drinking dom perignon while educating their kids at Harvard with millions to spare.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Joe Biden was at the impressive 1.5% for charity. Before running for VP, he sat at 3600 bucks total for 10 years. Joe thinks stealing money from the tax payers and using it to buy votes is “charity”.

  • chbroussard

    Typical liberal BS. Our church has a food kitchen that feeds several hundred. We also have a Christian-based resale shop and food pantry in our town, with proceeds from the shop going to feed, clothe, and offer financial assistance to those in need.
    And BTW, I think that pompous ass Harry Reid owes Gov. Romney a big apology after his little tirade on the floor of the Senate.

    • tnfriendofcoal101368

      We run a free medical clinic for people in the community who can’t afford medical care; we also join with area churches to provide a place to sleep for the homeless, etc – not to toot a horn but to add to the list. Churches help people.

  • retrocon87

    I watched Rock Center a few weeks ago (yeah I know, NBC… Rock Center usually isn’t too bad, though) and they did an actually very positive documentary on the LDS church… The amount of charitable work that church does and how efficiently they’ve figured out how to do it is absolutely astounding, and anyone who calls contributing to them “not really charity” has absolutely no idea what the hell they’re talking about… I highly recommend it for anyone who has some time on their hands–

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGRtpUbKSNc

  • The_Rebel

    The media looks to be going to your plan B. The talking points appear to be to quote Romney’s July statement:

    “I don’t pay more than are legally due and frankly if I
    had paid more than are legally due I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president.”

    This is in response to the fact he did not fully deduct all of his charitable contributions.
    The other talking point is questioning his “credibility”.

    • http://lvjohnston.blogspot.com/ lvjohnston

      Well, “plan B” will fail too because if Mr. Romney had paid more than what was required knowing that he did NOT need to pay, he should not be running for president – and would *not* have been running Bain Capitol!

  • http://www.justintribble.com Justin Tribble

    Two CNN contributors suggested today that giving to the Mormon Church is not “real charity”, and that even though Mitt gave millions to charity and a higher percentage of his income than Obama, charity itself does not reach the level of “giving back” in the way taxes do. In other words, taxes is “real” giving, while charity is secondary giving.

    I’m not kidding. That is their narrative. Charity isn’t really giving, and paying taxes is. Their minds are warped beyond all reason.

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