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Far more people take issue with Mitt Romney's liberalism than they do with his faith. Blaming too much on his religion hides the main issue, it's a cop out to avoid discussion of the real problems.

Well, I've discussed mega-times on FR Romney's switches on embryonic stem cell research (he switched his pos. 3 x); his switches on forcing employers to treat "sexual orientation" as a minority class status (he switched his pos. 3x); and his positions on abortion (well beyond 3 switches).

But what I'd like to suggest is the two may be connected. After all, if you're someone who so easily leap frogs from one social issue position to another, why would that bother you if while you were a 30-yo tithing member of a church, you saw the head of your church do exactly that re: move from a solidly racist posture to allowing blacks as priestholders?

And then, when he looks @ his spiritual leaders of his past, they did the same social about-faces on issues like polygamy.

I think the two are interlinked: If it's OK for the Mormon god & the Mormon 'prophet' to change his mind so abruptly; well, what's wrong with a public office candidate doing some major social changes in a political world already used to it? The hot water bath we are boiling in now is the result of decades of compromised principles, yet Mitt Romney seems eager to compromise even more, and he isn't alone. Millions of Americans realize that we can't slide much further, and still be America. We will have returned, for practical purposes, to the past our ancestors abandoned in disgust.

FYI: The quote @ the bottom of my last post was Swampsniper's, not mine...I was going to simply "Amen" him/her on this comment: The hot water bath we are boiling in now is the result of decades of compromised principles, yet Mitt Romney seems eager to compromise even more, and he isn't alone. Millions of Americans realize that we can't slide much further, and still be America. We will have returned, for practical purposes, to the past our ancestors abandoned in disgust.

Ii isn't just the LDS, it permeates many of the protestant churches too. The Methodist Church, for example, became the United Methodist Church, signed on with the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches, and became an agent of socialism when I was still a young man.

Make no mistake about it, the NCC and the WCC are communist fronts.

I left the day the minister started raising funds for Handgun Control Inc, and to build field hospitals for the Viet Cong.