Replies

As long as Romney's religion doesn't interfere with the oath he will take on January 20th 2013 to support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, I don't see what the point of all this is.

For eight years I had to put up with Liberal relatives of mine (ok, my wife's ... but still people I couldn't easily just walk away from) pushing the notion that George W. Bush was going to install an Evangelical Christian Theocracy through things like a White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. So, iow *yawn*. Annoying, but *yawn*.

Here's the thing about religion and the Presidency - an Administration can only go as far as the six Roman Catholics and three Jews on the Supreme Court (and to a lesser extent the 535 members of the two houses of Congress (Wikipedia shows them as 55% Protestant, 30% Roman Catholic, 8% Jewish and then 2.6% Mormon ... the rest being other religions) allow the President to go. Even given the fact that the Senate Democrat Leader is a Mormon too. Even given the possibility that a President Romney could appoint Mormons to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court (probably two, possibly three still isn't a majority)

Personally, I see the likelihood of BOTH Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg running out and buying "magic underwear" (I'm being facetious there) and signing up for a Mormon theocracy about as likely as either of them buying a box full of snakes (facetious there too) and up for an Evangelical Protestant one.

So unless someone can provide demonstrable evidence that Romney is going to govern with the intent of converting everyone to Mormonism (although I imagine that if he were to promise to start with Keith Ellison a LOT of people on FR would be VERY enthusiastic about the whole thing) this is a complete non-issue to me.

Huge difference between Christianity and mormonISM.
Christians have never expressed a desire beyond the constitution to have a theocracy (no matter what the left says - they are just projecting), however Joesph Smith and his posse stated, wrote about and tried to take over the US government because they wanted mormonism law ruling/running the country.