Yet more evidence that Romney’s “Mormon speech” will largely skirt the Mormon issue, this time from the New Hampshire Times Leader:
Mitt Romney said today he will not try to defend his Mormonism or teach any lessons about it during his planned speech on “Faith in America” on Thursday. He also insisted the speech is not directly connected to questions raised about his religion by evangelicals in early voting states Iowa and South Carolina.
“I don’t know that even at this stage that my faith is a significant factor in my race,” the Republican presidential candidate told reporters following a talk on the economy at the Chateau Restaurant in downtown Manchester.
“I just don’t think in the final analysis it will be the deciding factor.
“But I do believe on a separate topic that faith in America is an important topic and there’s a lot of different views about faith in America,” he said. He said that the separation of church and state “is a topic of significance that a presidential candidate ought to take advantage of addressing and that’s why I’m doing it.”
God-o-Meter is scratching its head. Is Romney’s supposed Mormon speech really going to avoid Mormonism for the most part? Or is this all about expectations setting, akin to campaign aides in pre-debate spin rooms trying to convince the press that their candidate is about to get clobbered?
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posted December 5, 2007 at 9:59 am
I sorry Mr. God-o-Meter, but you seem to have grown up in another country or planet were there is no religious freedom. Why should any political candidate in a religiously free country have to talk about the differences of his faith with other faiths? That is what churches do, not politicians. The reason why there are so many different religions in America is because American is a free nation. If one goes to another country were there is no religious freedom, there is only one State religion. If God-o-Meter wants to practice the same principles of suppressive countries and governments, then move to one of these countries. Let freedom loving people carry the touch of religious tolerance and respect for people who have different religious views. That is the power and beauty of a free America.
posted December 6, 2007 at 2:25 pm
It is not about what he believes in doctrine is the fact that he vows to: You and each of you covenant and promise before God, angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you do accept the Law of Consecration as contained in the (The officer holds up a copy of the Doctrine of Covenants again.) The Book of Doctrine and Covenants, in that YOU DO CONSECRATE YOURSELVES, YOUR TIME, TALENTS, AND EVERYTHING WITH WHICH THE Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS, for the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth and FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ZION. That is what everyone is concerned with. Not what he believes but what he holds allegiance to.