[Did he “Huck” receive a tolerant response?]
Well of course not. But the hypocrisy runs rampant of both sides.
Mitt ‘I’m a Godfearing family man but don’t bring God or religion into this.”
Huck ‘Mitt, you are a cultist and thirdgrader throwing taunts.”
Mitt and Huck are disasters waiting to happen.
Well, that’s progress, you’ve been one to bring up Romney’s Mormonism, but you are seeing Huck’s behavior as low.
Romney’s speech, while it would of course not satisfy those who see Mormonism itself as a bar was not about saying “dont bring God into this” but about saying that the Presidential race is not the place to get into doctrinal discussions:
He stuck with his Mormon faith and won’t hide from it:
“They would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs. Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it.”
He won’t answer the gotcha doctrine questions:
“There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church’s distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.”
I’d have to agree on the latter. we should question the voting sanity of people who put Mormon issues and insist on doctrinal answers ahead of other considerations. I’ll take a good Jewish doctor over a bad Christian doctor, and we voters should hire a good Mormon for President if he’s better than the “Christian” alternatives. Mormon doctrinal details will not impact how he performs as president.