Faced with an Iowa defection to Mike Huckabee’s camp by the right-wing “Christian” base, Mitt Romney is going to try and stop the bleeding with “the speech” about mormonism. I have a sense that like other under-the-radar memes being pushed in this campaign, he won’t be able to push back much - largely because that while Sen. Obama is not a Muslim, Romney is a Mormon and for better or worse the base is not exactly down with Joseph Smith and his visions.
It is strange, because while all religion requires you to suspend your skeptical side, Mormonism requires a little extra work because it says that major religious events happened in America just a little over 200 years ago. Burning bushes and people walking on water 2000 years ago in the middle east you can “get”, but the Mormon stuff sounds “weird” by comparison.
On the other hand… not many other religions have Steve Young.
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