[Zakeet]

Among the Saint's biggest objections:

1. Mitt disavowed polygamy

2. Mitt was annoying when he "had to say the safest, most Protestant thing he could think of" when asked what Bible he used

3. Mitt said the oath of office would become his "highest promise to God" instead of his temple covenants

4. Mitt said, "I don't know that [God's] spoken to anyone since Moses in the [Burning] Bush" in a statement that "seemed to strike at the very foundations of his [Mormon] church"

5. Mormons were troubled by Romney's eager wooing of evangelical voters and his efforts to "blur the differences between the two groups"

Bottom Line: To try to be something you're not just doesn't work ... it was a moral error, as well as a political error

[Zakeet]

Ping

[nicmarlo]

To try to be something you're not just doesn't work ... it was a moral error, as well as a political error

The very same thing is happening to McRino....who claims he's a conservative and a Republican, but is neither.

[Gator113]

Damn...you had to do a lot of squeezing to get any juice out of that lemon.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Very interesting.

Validates a lot of the points many “anti-mormon bigots” around here were saying.

[Vaquero]

[Count of Monte Logan]

Really, the main things were:

1) His positions(s) on abortion. That’s kind of like a core Mormon issue for a Stake President
2) Being genuine. That’s something he did better after he dropped out the race in my opinion.. and something unlike abortion that can be learned by a 60 year old.

Overall, he’s ok... more of a great CEO than a leader.

[Skenderbej]

I hardly think the 90 percent vote for Mitt in Utah is representative of the “fact” that he made Mormons queasy. Utah doesn’t even have a 90 percent Mormon population anymore, especially in Salt Lake county.

[gondramB]

It is somewhat unfair that he is expected to be a spokesman and expert in Mormonism. We didn’t expect Bill Clinton or Al Gore to be expert Southern Baptists.

[lmiller007]

Why are people allowed to get away with writing such unsubstantiated articles? As a Mormon, I am not taken back by anything of things said by Romney, nor was any Mormon I know, and I know a ton of them. I love my evangelical brothers and glad Romney courted them. He was highly successful in doing so. Hopefully we who believe in the teachings of Christ, and the values he represents, can get passed the silly sectarianism.

[PAR35]

Others were puzzled to hear Romney say he reads the Gideon Bible—a version popular with evangelicals: Mormons uniformly study the King James version,

The Gideon Bibles are KJV without any theological footnotes. A fact that the reporter would know if she ever bothered to read a Bible in a hotel nightstand.

[marron]

Well, fortunately he dropped out, so we get to vote for McCain.

[dmw]

“How Mormons Saw Romney — In wooing evangelicals, he made some fellow LDS members uneasy”

Why? I thought we were all “brothers in the Lord”. No? It’s strange when the Mormons have no problem being brothers with Satan, but they’re uneasy with evangelicals. I don’t get it.

[iowamark]

Among the Saint's biggest objections:

[TheLion]

More crapola from the left. I guess you now worship the leftest media.

[wai-ming]

It’s a good thing Romney’s out. Now we have Huckabee, a “true” evangelical to vote for. Not a phony bone in his body. Go Huck!

[ElCapitanAmericaLives]

From the article, this sums up Romney very well;

“Rather than the individual little comments that may have startled Mormons, I think what troubled [fellow LDS members] was a sense that he was pandering,” says Bushman.”

[broncobilly]

This article is a bunch of crap. Anyone who knew anything about Mormons or Mormonism could never have written such a ridiculous article.
1) What Romney said about polygamy, Brigham Young said worse.
2) What else do you read when you reach into a hotel night stand. The Gideon Bible is the KJV.
3) For a Mormon president to honor their oath of office would in no way conflict with any temple coveenant.
4) That statement is understandable in terms of Mormon theology.
5) Mormons have been trying to build bridges to other faiths long before Romney came along.

It is easy to see that this article is purely a fabrication in the mind of the reporter. It shows no attempt to ascertain the facts from a credible source.

[EverOnward]

1st I’ve heard of this BS — Did the writer of the article talk to more than 2 malcontents?

[POWG]

Well I just feel all happy inside knowing that Newsweak is around to tell me what I should think!!!

This is just another article where the author knows nothing about his subject.

[eclecticEel]

The guy was getting 90% of the Mormon vote. Whatever problems his church had with him, it couldn’t have been too severe.