Mormonism is downright weird from the standpoint of mainstream Christianity. It’s like they took a more or less vanilla evangelical Christianity, tweaked the theology of Jesus Christ a bit to make it more “interesting,” then dipped into some utter science fiction to finish it out. This could have made Joseph Smith one of the earliest realistic science fiction writers, but he actually believed that stuff.
However that’s not what’s the most bothersome thing about Mitt Romney. What’s most bothersome is his politics. Liberal and flip flopping, and there isn’t any visible connection between that and his star struck religion (Mormons come in both conservative and liberal flavors).
“This could have made Joseph Smith one of the earliest realistic science fiction writers, but he actually believed that stuff.”
Did he? I don’t really think he did. The man was a con artist. He was the 19th Centurys L. Ron Hubbard. Besides, he didn’t even write the stuff, he plagerized it.