“He didn’t force the residents of Massachusetts to join the Mormon Church when he was Governor.”
Only because he couldn’t do it. He was too busy screwing up other things.
IF he is elected POTUS, he will be a negative influence becausing Mormonism to become more palatible. Fools often follow celebrity. Donny and Marie Osmond were the best thing that ever happened to Mormonism. They were excused their “mission” assignment because they brought in more converts through their TV show.
Besides that he is sometimes flakey, I have shunned Glen Beck because of his Mormonism.
I don’t want some lemming in America to be sucked into the dead end of Mormonism because of one being POTUS.
However, there are plenty of reasons why I wouldn’t vote for Romney even without his devout Mormonism.
Let me get this straight....you’d prefer to muzzle or otherwise stifle Mormons from ‘’advertising’’ their particular strain of belief and purify the marketplace of ideas? Really, if Christians are abject failures at spreading their ‘’word’’ of Christ, don’t blame a Mormon for taking into their fold a convert who rejected the ‘’Christian’’ message.
It would be bad enough if it stopped there but mormonism has thousands of "missionaries" all over the world - including Paris, France, where Myth evaded the draft during the Viet Nam era.
The "missionaries will have a new and persuasive (to many) talking point, "just look, the President of the United States is a Mormon, it must be alright".