Posted on 02/29/2012 7:42:14 AM PST by Colofornian
A recent poll discovered that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a top pick for the GOP vice presidential candidate – regardless of who ends up winning the presidential nomination. But could his Mormon roots disturb his momentum and keep him off the ballot?
Two of Rubio's cousins told BuzzFeed.com that the senator was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints when he was 11-years-old. This is something Rubio has never made mention of himself.
Alex Conant, a spokesman for Rubio, confirmed the cousins' report and told BuzzFeed.com that Rubio converted to Catholocism a few years after becoming Mormon along with his family. Rubio is still Catholic today and a spokesman for the senator told The New York Times that Rubio is a "practicing and devout Roman Catholic," adding that the senator "regularly attends Catholic Mass," and has been "baptized, confirmed and married in the Roman Catholic Church."
Although Rubio's involvement with the Mormon church was brief and during his childhood, it might be enough to stop his meteoric rise to GOP stardom, according to observers.
What if Mitt Romney wins the presidential nomination? A Mormon president with a former Mormon as vice president? Seems like an overly Mormon ticket that could have trouble defeating Obama in the fall, critics warn.
Before information on his Mormon past was released, things were looking very bright for Rubio's political future. Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind conducted a survey that revealed Rubio as a top vice presidential pick for the Republican Party.
The survey asked Republicans: "No matter who is the Republican nominee for president, if you could pick the vice presidential nominee who would it be?" The survey offered no choices, and participants were asked to write in their response...
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MrEdd,
I don’t know how you consider Rubio ineligible to be vice president because he attended the morman church and perhaps was baptized into it? Thus my sarcastic comment. Gamecock easily understood it in that his reply to my post was LOL.
I’m not familiar with there being a constitutional prohibition of the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the same party of belonging to the same religious group. Of course if one believes that the constitution can be made to say, whatever one wants, then you may have a point.
Rubio is inelligible because both his parents were not US citizens when he was born ( which is required to meet the criteria fot “natural born” status in the constitutional sense). The statute has to do with divided national loyalties, not biology.
Thank you for playing.
Pick up your consolation prize on your way out.
Obviously you thought I was referring to post #15, I was not, I was referring to post #1. Thus you are the wild goose chaser here.
That wasn't the case in 2010.
You’re probably right re: the nondenominational attendance...the thing is...a lot — if not most — nondenoms don’t even have formal “memberships”...So Rubio may have never pulled his membership in his Roman Catholic church...and for good reason...it allows him to have a “face” for lots of distinct constituents...
It's funny when you and others plead Vattel like a holy writ but ignore the first Congress and president Washington deviated from Vattel in their first full year.
Even Vattel consider "native" and "natural born citizen" interchangeable, the first Congress considered the definition alterable thus however U.S. citizenship is acquired at birth meets the standard.
I'm not fan of Rubio for VP but this argument is tiresome nonsense.
It's funny when you and others plead Vattel like a holy writ but ignore the first Congress and president Washington deviated from Vattel in their first full year.
Even Vattel consider "native" and "natural born citizen" interchangeable, the first Congress considered the definition alterable thus however U.S. citizenship is acquired at birth meets the standard.
I'm not fan of Rubio for VP but this argument is tiresome nonsense.
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