Readers' forum: Romney's religion

Published: Saturday, June 4 2011 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

Candidates who raise an issue during an election and are elected earn a mandate to address that issue

Candidates who raise an issue during an election and are elected earn a mandate to address that issue. If Mitt Romney is seeking to end anti-Mormon prejudice, he should actively make his Mormonism an issue and show how its tenets and values support his candidacy, and not downplay his faith or its contradictions with what other Christians believe. Otherwise, his faith won't be an issue, as a candidate or as president, which in my opinion is as it should be. That cuts both ways. To expect non-Mormons to evaluate Romney as an individual and not consider his Mormonism, they'll need to stop hearing that Mormons support him because he's a Mormon.

John Pace

Salt Lake City

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Rand

FLAGSTAFF, AZ

Considering the local flak Huntsman took for not bearing his testimony when recently asked if he was a Mormon, I would say many of the LDS members in Utah are just as guilty of using religion as a barometer as the evangelicals who oppose Romney for More..

8:20 a.m. June 4, 2011
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Esquire

Springville, UT

I'm tired of religion being mixed with politics. Whether Southern Baptists, Jews, Mormons, religious adherence has no place in government. For Mormons, it goes both ways. You can't complain that people won't vote for Romney because he is Mormon, More..

7:26 a.m. June 4, 2011
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The Real Maverick

Orem, UT

Ok Ok, there are 2 issues here that are detrimental to Mr. Romney's chances.

#1 Will Americans vote for a flip flopper who says anything he can to be elected?
#2 Will southern evangelicals, the group Romney is courting right now, the More..

9:26 a.m. June 4, 2011
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