Wow, talk about confusing… The following paragraph is taken from Wikipedia:
“Rubio was baptized into the Catholic Church as an infant but converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 8, being baptized again. A few years later he and his family returned to Catholicism, with Rubio receiving First Communion, completing confirmation, and later getting married in the church. Around 2002, Rubio left Catholicism again and began attending Christ Fellowship (a Southern Baptist church); in 2005, he returned again to the Catholic church, although he continues to attend Christ Fellowship often.”
This guy is all over the place; just the kind of guy we would want as Vice-President of the United States of America, right? If Romney wins the Republican nomination and selects Marco Rubio as his running mate, Rubio may convert to Mormonism yet again. Or maybe he’ll try being a Jehovah’s Witness? Or maybe, just maybe, he’ll join the Scientology freaks!
Whatever the case may be, this guy sounds like quite a flake. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: ABC OTUS News
Photography: Robert Giroux/Getty Images
By Matt Negrin | ABC OTUS News
Marco Rubio has something in common with Mitt Romney: their religion.
The young tea party hero most likely on Mitt Romney’s short list of potential running mates was baptized into the Mormon church when he was 8 and “remained active in the faith for a number of years,” attending LDS youth groups and walking to church most Sundays because his mother didn’t drive, the Internet meme and news site BuzzFeed reports.
Rubio left Mormonism to become a Catholic “a few years later,” and he got his first Communion when he was 13, in 1984, the Florida senator’s spokesman told the website.
Romney’s faith has occasionally been a topic of discussion in the Republican primary. Many Americans are unfamiliar with Mormonism, a Christian religion that has been called a cult by a pastor who endorsed Rick Perry and even by Romney’s chief rival, Rick Santorum.
“Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?” Santorum wrote in a 2007 newspaper column.
The revelation also muddies the prospects of Rubio’s getting the VP nod from Romney. Though many conservatives love Rubio – he overwhelmingly won a straw poll for vice presidential nominee at an annual gathering of conservatives in Washington this month – the bottom of the ticket is often used for balancing a variety of attributes.
BuzzFeed says that its questions to Rubio’s aides about his religion “appear to have sent them into frantic damage-control mode.” The Miami Herald published a blog mentioning Rubio’s Mormon roots just before Rubio’s spokesman called the website to confirm the story. The spokesman said Rubio plans to write about his Mormon faith in a book.
