He was raised Mormon, and is still on the LDS membership rolls.
Two Mormons on the ticket - or Rubio will be forced to repudiate his Mormon membership. He hasn’t done that yet.
Rubio was 8 or 9 years old when his mother brought him to the Mormon Church.
However “smart” the young Marco Rubio was, I seriously doubt anyone under the age of 8 or 9 really had a grasp on the doctrinal between different branches of Christianity.
Let’s remember, many of us belong to the churches not because we did some serious soul searching and independent thought and decided that church best represented our own views or is “correct.” We belong to our church because our family does, or our friends and neighbors do.
I also note that Church is about connecting to something higher. And on one level that something higher is the feeling of community. We’re not going to say churches are just social clubs, but are they not basically religious social clubs? So it follows that the Rubios, brand new to Nevada, would start attending church with their closest family members in the area.
At 13, Rubio’s family moved back to Catholic-heavy Miami and begin once again attending Catholic church. There isn’t much of a Mormon community in South Florida anyway, but it makes sense that the Rubio family would again be attending the church that their friends and family in the area did.
Rubio still identifies as Catholic but attends a non-denominational Baptist church in West Kendall. It seems to us that for Rubio, the actual act of going to church isn’t so much about the scripture as it is the community. How else do you explain a Catholic going to a Baptist church?
Unless Rubio is actually a Mormon sleeper agent who is part of a vast Manchurian conspiracy to join Romney in the White House to rule America under strict Mormon law, I’m really not sure how any of this is all of that important.
It’s not like Mormonism and Catholicism translate to very different political opinions. Both creeds are anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion.