But this is the exact reason why religion should be kept out of the election . . .

[no_hypocrisy]

“The concern among evangelicals is that the Mormon Church will use his position around the world as a calling card for legitimizing their church and proselytizing people.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/politics/evangelical-christians-unease-with-romney-is-theological.html?_r=1&hp

It's a Chief Executive whose religious sponsors will use his/her position to promote their religion as government policy which may include benefit to that religion or discrimination against those groups and individuals not in their religion.

The Evangelicals would not be "concerned" if their guy/gal were in the White House.

[hobbit709]

1. They have no qualms about that

They just want to stop others from doing what they want to do.

[CanonRay]

2. And they will, make no mistake.

The usually crazy evangelicals are right on this one.

[Hestia]

3. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but how are the crazies right? TIA

[Honeycombe8]

4. Bush was evangelical, so I guess this tells us that Bush was proselytizing people.

And the evangelicals were all for it.

[Solly Mack]

5. They don't want the competition

[Initech]

6. Religion should be kept out of *EVERY* election!!

I am 1000000000000% against a new constituional convention for this very reason. I'm tired of how every politician ever has to court the evangelical vote. This is dangerous.

[Drahthaardogs]

7. Well of course the Mormon Church will use this to legitimize themselves

and the Catholic Church did before with Kennedy (although some would argue that the Catholic Church is only illegitimate in the Southern Bible Belt). That will be an obvious outcome.

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. They only complain when it's someone else's religion.

When it was Bush, it was A-OK.

[Quantess]

9. We've got a Kenyan Muslin in the white house now!

Seriously though, this why we need separation of church & state.

[JoePhilly]

10. Its called Projection. They fear a Mormon would do EXACTLY what they would do.

[Charlemagne]

11. They dont see the hypocrisy

or they do and dont care because THEIR one view is the ONLY right view. Everything else (constitution, other peoples rights) is just an obstacle to their goal