WI: A President Converts to Mormonism While in Office

I think a president converting in that era would cause, if not a successful impeachment, but a complete agreement with states who withdrew from the union and the congress would let them go.
 
FYI: Polygamy was given up for Utah statehood.

Abraham Lincoln freed only the slaves in the states that had withdrawn from the union. He was hoping for an uprising to support his cause, not doing it out of the goodness of his heart or because he thought owning human beings was wrong.

Uh, he did think slavery was wrong. See his speeches.
 

Zioneer

Banned
Uh, I think you're both agreeing in that Lincoln did think slavery was wrong, but that the Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed to try and get political and military support for the Union, not specifically because Lincoln thought slavery was wrong.

Also I just wanted to respond to two posts in a row starting with "uh," with an "uh". :p
 
If any President converted to something 'unacceptable' while in office (Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or some of the odder Christian offshoots, I think there would be a huge furor, and that he'd seriously damage his party's standing. Thus, I suspect what he'd do is not formally convert until after his term was over. Note that even Tony Blair thought it more politic to wait until after stepping down before converting (officially) to Roman Catholicism, and that was in the 21st century!!

Not to get too sidetracked, but Blair was jockeying for the European Commission Presidency when he converted. I think he was looking to ingratiate himself with conservative parties in Southern Europe than being scared of the British electorate. There is no evidence Howard suffered from being Jewish or Clegg from his atheism.
 
how about if the president clearly states that the only reason that he converted was because they support polygamy? more political uproar?
 
how about if the president clearly states that the only reason that he converted was because they support polygamy? more political uproar?
That's totally ASB and more than a little insulting. Mormonism is not simply some sort of "free-love" communal religious movement, and no one would convert to it so they could have more wives.
 
was not meant to be insulting, and people have done things out of strange motivations all through history.
Sometimes even based on misconceptions
 
Polygamy was a big thing against Mormonism. It reeked of Old Testament Judaism and Jews weren't that popular, either. Polygamy actually fractured LDS when the "main" church caved to become a state. So, a president converting just to have more than one wife is going to be shot by the wife he has at that time and she'll get off. Totally understandable, got to shoot the man because he has totally lost his mind and he was probably dangerous.....
 

PhilippeO

Banned
What about widowed president convert because he fall in love with Mormon women ? ' i love both Smith sisters and i want to marry them both'. A man condemned in 19th century and rehabilitated in 21st century ? The most romantic President, who impeached for love.
 
I do not see how Lincoln's OTL motivation for the Emancipation Proclamation means that an ATL Apostle Lincoln would not be anti-slavery.
 
I do not see how Lincoln's OTL motivation for the Emancipation Proclamation means that an ATL Apostle Lincoln would not be anti-slavery.

I have no idea where you got this one. I was providing two facts in response to some posts. Of course ATL Apostle Lincoln can be anti-slavery. He can be pro-gay rights and into BDSM, it is alt history.
 
What about widowed president convert because he fall in love with Mormon women ? ' i love both Smith sisters and i want to marry them both'. A man condemned in 19th century and rehabilitated in 21st century ? The most romantic President, who impeached for love.

Don't think so; even in the 21st century, getting yourself tossed out of office because you wanted to get laid isn't going to be cool. President Widower would wait until his term was up, just to NOT screw things up for his party if nothing else.
 
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