[Vigilanteman]

Horsefeathers! Any group is going to have their dissidents and their ways of dealing with them. It isn't like he has a fatwa against him.

I suspect from what little information is given in the article, the problem is that he wanted to represent himself as a church member when he ceased to subscribe to church membership.

Many years ago, there was a tempest in a teapot in my hometown when the local Mormon congregation excommunicated one of their elders who was advertising that he was performing gay marriages. The local reporter did a much better job than this one . . . or at least the local Mormon spokesman did a better job of explaining because the excommunicated guy generated exactly zero public sympathy in a town which was mainly Lutheran and Catholic.

This story has exactly zero relevance to how Mitt Romney or any other Mormon would govern. His father did a fairly decent job of running Michigan's government for over a decade. OTOH, Harry Reid has done an awful job of running the U.S. Senate for the last nine months.

[MHGinTN]

If Romney gets the nomination he will never get the chance to govern as pres ... the heresies and embarrassing truths about Mormonism will destroy his chances by suppressing just enough Christian conservatives votes. To ignore this as a real possibility is to walk into a spinning propeller just to maintain solidarity with Mormonism at any cost.

[Elsie]

Any group is going to have their dissidents and their ways of dealing with them.

Yup...

...I rest my case.

[SwankyC]

It isn't like he has a fatwa against him.

Yea, try living in Utah and say that. Sorry but the Mormons pretty much run or have a hand in everything here and one could easily be black balled in this state.