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...title of your article on the aspirations of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney--"Can a Mormon Be President?" [Dec. 4]--is a telling indictment of our current political culture. Our nation's Founding Fathers drew up a Constitution that guarantees freedom of religion. It made us the envy of the world, and it is one of the reasons we have become a great nation. And yet centuries later, we are still mired in the mistaken idea that a person's spiritual beliefs have anything to do with whether he or she is a good American. We should judge our leaders...
...comes across on TV, in books or even in the courts. The popular HBO series Big Love shows a Utah family trying to "live the principle" of plural marriage; at the end of every episode, the network's defensive disclaimer informs the audience that the Mormon church, in fact, rejects polygamy. Similarly, the nonfiction best seller Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer chronicles shocking murders within a Mormon splinter group, though it was probably lost on many readers that the sect has no connection to the church. More recently, the 50-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church...
...Romney still has some explaining of his own to do, particularly to the Republican evangelical base, which now makes up nearly a third of the party's electorate and can wield huge power in primary states, most notably South Carolina. That's because some Evangelicals hold the view that Mormonism is not a Christian faith. Because Mormons acknowledge works of Scripture that are not in the Bible, believe that their prophets have received revelations directly from God and teach that God has a physical body, Evangelicals consider them heretics. The Southern Baptist Convention lists the LDS church under Cults...
...with a key Romney donor and a paid consultant to his political action committee. The church says it was just a courtesy call, one of many such meetings Holland holds. But the Globe also described e-mails from two administrators of the business school at Brigham Young University, the Mormon school that is Romney's alma mater, who used office computers to solicit support for the campaign. The two were told by B.Y.U.'s counsel to knock it off, although Romney later said it made sense to raise money from people he knows, including alumni...
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid rarely gets questions about his Mormonism, and Romney has tried deflect them by focusing on the broad principles of his faith, as well as family values and traditional marriage. A writer for the Atlantic Monthly asked Romney last year if he wears Temple Garments--white underclothing, with the "Marks of the Holy Priesthood" sewn in, donned with reverence by the most faithful Mormons. "I'll just say those sorts of things I'll keep private," he sensibly replied. Will that dodge work for other theological questions? Calling himself "a religious person," Romney in June used...