As an aside, I've noticed, "Mormon" has become something of a word that doth not be uttered in the debates.
I look at someone like Ted Kennedy and I can tell he didn't pick up the sanctity of human life from his Catholicism but he sure picked up on the "social justice" movement.
In that sense the label taken on isn't as meaningful as the values reflected.
Obama's decade of attending the church of a racist demagogue hollering things like "God Damn America" from his pulpit is gravely disturbing. It sheds considerable light on how he speaks down to the American people and treats his job. It has nothing to do with his proclaimed Christian faith but saying he'd never heard such things all those years as a parishioner tells me, again, what we need to know: he's a belittling, divisive, opportunistic liar who will do anything to save his own skin.
I'm often wary of those who make their faith a central theme of their campaign whether it's Huckabee, W, Perry, Bachmann or the sermonizing Bill Clinton back in 1992. I'm not swayed by the rhetoric.
Perry & Bachmann had nothing to do with this controversy. Pastor Jeffress was asked a question by a lib reporter for politico and then Bill Bennett jumped up and made a big deal of linking this to Perry calling Pastor Jeffress a bigot in the process. The actual sentiments of Pastor Jeffress are at the link. If you read his opinion you might be surprised.