As a current, card-carrying “Mormon” Christian, I have to say I’m unenthusiastic about Mitt for two main reasons:
1) He’s not conservative enough
2) He’s not Mormon enough
He’s saying some of the “right” things on some conservative issues, but he’s saying what he thinks we (the base) want to hear.
I don’t know what faithful Latter-day Saint could have been “effectively pro-choice” for so long, when the prophets and general authorities, and the scriptures themselves, have all decried abortion as an abomination.
Mitt’s obviously an intelligent guy, he’s got business smarts that NONE of the other Republican candidates have, and I’ll vote for him if he gets the nomination—because even a squishy LDS conservative is better than Hillary.
1) He’s not conservative enough
2) He’s not Mormon enough
Those are, more or less, the reasons I won't vote for him either. As governor of Massachusetts, he's proven himself to be a first-class RINO. And while I wouldn't necc. vote for him if he were "Mormon enough", he's IMO wishy-washy enough with his beliefs that he comes across as having no moral convictions whatsover, and that's enough for me to avoid voting for him.
So far I've heard that Mitt's alleged pro-choice position consisted of choice in the cases of rape, incest and when a woman's life is in danger. I'm looking at his record in MA. All I've found are liberals angry over the way Romney derailed their anti-life legislation. I haven't found any instances where he supported abortion on demand outside those three exceptions.
Many people who are pro-life allow for the three exceptions. So now Romney has changed his identifying label but his position is still the same. I'm comfortable with it.