Has the Mormon mystique been lifted?

[Gerald]

He didn't win, but Mitt Romney wasn't far off. So what happened to the predictions that a Mormon candidate could never have a shot at the US presidency?

The long lead-up to the US election was peppered with commentaries on Mormonism - the little-understood religion of Mitt Romney, front-runner for the Republican ticket.

The naysayers said a Mormon could never win the White House, and they appeared to be backed up by surveys of public opinion.

In June, a study by Gallup suggested that almost 20% of Americans would not vote for a well-qualified candidate if he was Mormon - a figure virtually unchanged from 44 years ago, when Mitt's father, George Romney, ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination.

Another study by Pew found a third of Mormons themselves said they did not feel the country was ready to elect a Mormon president, such is the discrimination against them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20327593


Note: 16 November 2012 Last updated at 01:12 GMT

[geetrue]

I never got one single email (and I get a lot of emails)(not as many as General Allen lol), but I get a lot of emails and not one of them mentioned anything negative about Mitt Romney, nor talked trash about the Mormon religion.

All I am saying is that I find it very strange that they are not talked about very nice in the real world I live in, yet no one dared say anything in any email corespondence.

They have so many secrets including wearing the underwear of dead saints that I am surprised Romney made it as far as he did.

They were forgiven by Christian groups in order to defeat President Obama, but that didn't happen and now they are looking for another super star.

Plus I must add that my God doesn't lose elections. As bad as President Obama is he won for reasons that have yet to be determined.

Religion is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.

[Gerald]

If everyone's gods win an election, so they have a good dialogue with their god,that's for sure.

[eddie]

I don't believe his Morman background had much to do with the election. If people didn't vote for him, it had more to do with his policies he stood for, not his religion.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by eddie

I don't believe his Morman background had much to do with the election. If people didn't vote for him, it had more to do with his policies he stood for, not his religion.

Correct. You don't tell a group of illegals with kids that are legal and can vote that their folks will self deport with his new policies if elected. Just not a good way to win and influence a vote.

[Takeda Shingen]

I'll also chime in to say that I didn't hear anything about Romney's Mormonism during the course of the election. It was a non-issue.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by geetrue

IThey were forgiven by Christian groups in order to defeat President Obama, but that didn't happen and now they are looking for another super star.

Thus the old saying "Politics makes strange bedfellows".

Actually I think AVGWarhawk and Takeda Shingen are closer to the truth. Outside of Utah most mainstream Christians don't have a clue how different Mormon beliefs really are. I don't think anybody had to forgive anything or compromise their own beliefs to vote for Romney. They just didn't care.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I don't think anybody had to forgive anything or compromise their own beliefs to vote for Romney. They just didn't care.

Yes they did ... the people I know at least had to forgive Romney for being in a cult church that they preach against and be for him at the same time, due simply to their hatred for President Obama and I say Hatred with a captial H.