Monday, May 08, 2006
"A Mormon President?"
In general, I have stopped providing links to articles and blogs regarding Mitt Romney and his potential candidacy to become the next President of the United States. The articles are too frequent and they generally rehash the same arguments. Nevertheless, I ran across an interesting op-ed piece written by a Mormon on the topic: "A Mormon President?" This article does more than talk about a Mormon as President. It gives us an insider's self-understanding of Mormonism and its role in the public sphere. Here is how the writer begins:
Day after day some newspaper somewhere decides to run the same old tired story about unannounced Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, declaring that a Mormon could never be elected president because the evangelical Christians would never support him.
The first thing to remember is that some reporters have nothing original to report, so they regurgitate the same story many others have already written. It's easy to pick on the Mormons, so why not jump on the band wagon?
Any reporter in any city or town can simply start making phone calls to ministers and within a very short time it will be easy to find one or more who will be happy to bash the Mormons. All that reporter has to do is jot down a few of the more critical comments and bingo, another negative story is born.
There's just one problem. The vast majority of Americans do not believe such reports for one simple reason -- they are not true and we all know it.
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I read somewhere that he was a liberal republican but after looking into it he doesn't seem to be at all. Maybe people just assume that because he is from Massachucets. The only thing I could find was that he supported the assault weapons ban. Any thoughts?
I could support a Mormon for president if and only if the alternatives were worse. Unfortunately, choosing between bad, worse, and outright awful is the usual state of affairs in politics, so who knows?
Unless George Allen of Virginia runs there does not appear to be any other republican worth voting for.
What worries people about a Mormon being president? Why is his religion an issue?
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