Unless I’m mistaken, Mitt Romney didn’t attempt to force the Massachusetts to become Mormons. This thread is interesting as history, but it’s absurd to say it’s anything other than history. There are many valid reasons to oppose Romney without bringing up the church he attends.
If a Catholic Cardinal were running for President, do you think his church and his relationship to it would be fair game?
Sho-re a funny thing 'bout that continuum of history...why, some of it just "happens" to be a bit more recent than other "measured time":
“Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come when the Constitution would hang, as it were, by a thread, and at that time ‘this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.’... [Then] the Elders of Israel [i.e., LDS leaders], widely spread over the nation, will at that crucial time successfully rally the righteous of our country and provide the necessary balance of strength to save the institutions of constitutional government.” - Lds "Prophet" Ezra Taft Benson, Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, 1988, p. 619
“They tolerate everything that’s bad, and they’re intolerant of everything that’s good. Religious freedom is going to go down the drain, too. I’ve never seen it worse than this, where the Constitution literally is hanging by a thread.” - Orrin Hatch, Republican Mormon Senator of Utah, “The Doug Wright Show,” (KSL) November 9, 1999
“[LDS TV weatherman Thom Spencer] at a Republican rally broke with tradition that a journalist should remain objective and spoke out at the rally because of a prophecy by Joseph Smith, who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints more than 150 years ago. Smith predicted that the time would come ‘when the Constitution and government would hang by a brittle thread and be ready to fall into other hands, but this people, the latter-day saints, will step forth and save it.’” - “Weatherman’s Politics Cloud His Role on TV,” Seattle Times, November 24, 2000
Fortunately, I was already circumcised.