Bennett blasts pastor at Values Voter Summit
“Do not give voice to bigotry.” Bill Bennett took the stage a few minutes ago at the Values Voters Summit and blasted one of the previous day’s speakers, to the surprise of the crowd. Southern...
View ArticleMcCain: Let’s face it, there was some sort of anti-Mormon element to that...
Terrific. A little token of affection for South Carolinians from the guy they chose over Mitt Romney four years ago. “We haven’t had time to do a real analysis of the Romney race in South Carolina,...
View ArticleReport: Marco Rubio has Mormon roots
Important? A pop quiz for you. Marco Rubio is: (A) Roman Catholic (B) Nondenominational (C) Mormon or (D) All of the Above. If you answered (D), you might be right. According to a Buzzfeed exclusive,...
View ArticleMatthews: These conservative southern Christians are being forced to choose...
“They are willing to outsource it to a Mormon.” Via Greg Hengler. “Cultists” is his term for how southerners supposedly see Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich, not an expression of his own opinion, but...
View ArticleWhy aren’t more evangelicals voting for Romney?
Objections. It figures that days after considering whether there might be an anti-Mormon “Romney effect” in 2012, there would be fresh data from Michael Tesler at YouGov: Media speculation abounds...
View ArticleBuzzFeed: “Romney faces challenge on Mormonism and race”
Beginnings. You’ll get no complaint from the resident atheist about asking tough questions of any faith, especially after Obama took well-deserved heat four years ago over Rev. Wright (mainly from the...
View ArticleMartin Bashir to Romney: The Book of Mormon forbids lying, you know
Here we go. I’m … pretty sure the Bible does too, yet rarely do you see chapter and verse cited on cable news when a Democrat or Republican lies. Go figure. But then, I guess we’ve reached this point...
View ArticleMartin Bashir on Romney: Presidents who don’t drink haven’t done very well in...
Wink. Via the Washington Free Beacon, what’s unusual about this isn’t Bashir looking for excuses to inject Mormonism into his coverage of Romney. That’s par for the course; he was much more...
View ArticleCNN contributors: If Rev. Wright is fair game, so is Mormonism’s racial history
Fire with fire. Via Mediaite. On the one hand, this probably was a consideration in Team Mitt’s mad dash this morning to distance themselves from the now-kaput Rev. Wright Super PAC ad. On the other...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Fair game. The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate’s former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other’s high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of...
View ArticleSorry, haters: Freedom of religion was unifying, not divisive
The other “M” word. One of the most oft-cited concerns about Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential nominee has been his Mormon faith, and certain liberals have been not-so-subtle about hoping...
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