The media is filled with praise for Mitt getting up say that America is big enough and great enough not to hold religion against a presidential candidate. Even if that candidate happens to believe a snake-oil salesman was handed golden tablets and magic glasses by an angel to create a religion that allowed men to hold multiple wives.
OK, hey, we are.
But look a little closer. John Kennedy, way back when, said he wouldn't represent the pope because he believed in the separation of church and state. America believed him, enough said.
But Mitt wasn't talking about separation of church and state, except to say we have too much of it. He simply wants ore traditional evangelical Christian to believe he'll represent not Salt Lake City, but Lynchburg or wherever the Christian Right is headquartered these days.
JFK, to whom Mitt was glowingly compared in USA Today, said he wouldn't try to write his religious views into law.
Mitt has been traveling the country to say he'll do exactly that with the Christian Right's views on, oh, choice, abortion, marriage and so much more. If his religion doesn't matter, why is he running on religion's issues?
These are, of course, his views now, though he held different views when he was running for office in a Democratic state. So let the Christian Right question his Mormon beliefs. The rest of us just have to wonder if he has any beliefs of his own at all.
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