'Smart Mormons': Writer draws connection between LDS beliefs about agency and modern politics

Our take: Freelance writer Mike Jensen discusses the similarities between theology from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, primarily regarding the pre-mortal life and the war in heaven, and how it correlates with modern politics and the 2012 presidential election.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, that awesomely deep well of perpetual wisdom, Alec Baldwin, proclaimed that if Barack Obama were not black, his vote total would have been 20 percent higher.

People of real intelligence realize that the opposite was probably true: if he had been white, his vote total would have been 20 percent lower. The African-American voting bloc combined with enough whites suffering from liberal guilt guaranteed a higher vote total for Obama.

The truth of the matter is, if Mitt Romney had not been a Mormon, his vote total might very well have been significantly higher.

In fact, according to a Galup poll released in June of last year, while 4 percent of people said they would not vote for a black president, a full 22 percent said they would not vote for a Mormon. In fact, only atheists and gays ranked higher.

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