From the preamble of the Utah Republican Party Platform, it reads "We, the Republican Party of the Great State of Utah, affirm our belief in God and declare our support for government based upon a moral and spiritual foundation." Nowhere in the preamble of the State Democratic Party is such a mention of a belief in God. The Democratic preamble deals with values and civic responsibility, but no mention of God.
Which God is it they affirm their belief in? Yawheh? Thor? Allah? Poseidon? If one does not believe in one of these Gods, can one feel comfortable as a member of this party? Or does it just have to be some higher power that you can believe in? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that what Republicans mean, is that they affirm their belief in the God they believe in, which is a God that resembles, but is different than the triune God of the Council of Nicaea? I assume that Utah's approve deity as mentioned in their preamble is likely the council of three deities that make up the Godhead of the majority LDS Church.
The problem as I see it with coupling God with your politics, is that so many people have their own vision of what God is. I've noticed in my nearly half-century of living, that people who are kind and compassionate, envision a kind and compassionate God, while those who are judgmental and capricious emphasize the judgmental and capricious God of ancient scripture. People who seek power or relish in their own, envision an all-powerful deity and love to hear praise of this deity's power and glory, as if they are living vicariously in God's shoes feeling the adulation of their inferiors.
Belief in God can mean many things, and the fact that one says he believes in God tells me nothing about whether I want them in office. I can only assume that the Republican Party puts language like this in their platform because they truly believe that their God is on their side, and that God is a silent supporter of the Republican Party. If that is the case, they believe in a pretty sorry God indeed.
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