“The fact that we don’t believe that Mormonism is a Christian faith doesn’t mean we would not vote for someone who is Mormon, if they are pro-life,” Land told TIME in an interview on Tuesday. “Romney’s biggest problem with evangelicals has been that he hasn’t been Mormon enough. If he had always held his positions on abortion on marriage that his faith holds, there would be far fewer doubts about him.”
Nonetheless, Land said that he expects the national news media to try to make an issue of Romney’s faith in the coming months, in an effort to damage the Republican candidate’s chances. “I predict that within a week of Romney being nominated, the news media will start running specials,” he said. And they are going to trot out all of the, how shall I put it, rather exotic beliefs of Mormonism in the hopes that it will scare independents into voting Democratic.”
(See also related New York Times story.)
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