Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, an issue that has largely stayed below the surface of the current presidential race, erupted into the open again at a gathering here of religious conservatives, reviving questions about whether some in the evangelical community could accept Romney as the GOP nominee.Romney spoke to the conference Saturday, a day after a Texas pastor and supporter of Rick Perry at the event labeled Mormonism “a cult” and said Romney was not a Christian.
One man’s religion is another man’s cult.
This is the presses doing. Half the Baptists in Texas would say the same thing.
1. Shock news: The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints is…Christian.
2. Republicans are fools if they think talking about an “issue” (made so by an ignorant, bigoted minority of around 25% of the country that agrees with the pastor) instead of talking about the economic devastation wreaked by the Obama administration is a good idea politically.
Independent:
You are overestimating the number of people that agree with the statement of the pastor. I would like to think that people in the US have advanced in their understanding over the last 200 years. Although a vocal minority of 5% can be made to look like a majority of the people because some prefer not to be surveyed.
I may be biased because I had co-workers and an ex-wife that are / were members of the LDS church / Mormons!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148100/hesitant-support-mormon-2012.aspx
22% would not vote for a Mormon. Mind you, other polls have shown higher numbers, even higher than 25% IIRC. People have indeed advanced quite a bit, although much bigotry remains (for example, doing even worse than Mormons on the “would not vote for” scale are Muslims and atheists).
So then they’d vote for Obama instead? I doubt that…the people responding that way haven’t thought it through…lesser of two evils and all that.
-Scott