Be Ready
For more stories like this, discussing "perceptions" that Mormons are polygamists (note that the story quotes no hard numbers about which or how many Americans experience this "perception"). It's an ugly and, sadly, inevitable byproduct of the increasing stature of Governor Mitt Romney.
There has been speculation that Romney's faith might hurt him with the evangelical Christians who are an important part of the GOP nominating process -- and no doubt there are those in the MSM (as well as people like putative rival John McCain) who were hoping this would happen; it would have offered what would appear to some to be the dual advantage of eliminating a solid and charismatic conservative from the race while allowing aspersions of bigotry to be cast on conservative Christians.
But instead, many evangelicals are embracing Romney. And that's why we should all be prepared to see more articles attempting to portray Mormonism as some otherworldly religion of which we should all be very, very wary. It's about the election -- and to the extent that Romney continues to creep up on media favorite McCain, the press is going to get tougher and tougher on him.
There has been speculation that Romney's faith might hurt him with the evangelical Christians who are an important part of the GOP nominating process -- and no doubt there are those in the MSM (as well as people like putative rival John McCain) who were hoping this would happen; it would have offered what would appear to some to be the dual advantage of eliminating a solid and charismatic conservative from the race while allowing aspersions of bigotry to be cast on conservative Christians.
But instead, many evangelicals are embracing Romney. And that's why we should all be prepared to see more articles attempting to portray Mormonism as some otherworldly religion of which we should all be very, very wary. It's about the election -- and to the extent that Romney continues to creep up on media favorite McCain, the press is going to get tougher and tougher on him.
posted by LadybugUSA at 7:56 PM
2 Comments:
In my best impersonation:
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that politics is going on in here!
It is not the polygamy that has me a bit troubled by Romney's Campaign. Whatever Mormons do in their bed-rooms or matrimonial relations.
Being a part of an organized religion that has openly plotted the over throw of the US government, murdered hundred at Mountain Meadows and spent the last hundred years covering-up the massacre.
Didn't David Coresh share Romney's intellectual history of insurrection and lawlessness against the United States?
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