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Has there been a mood change in the country about the importance of talking about religion

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Brian Lamb: Let me ask you, I am old enough to remember your father running back in ’68. I don’t remember any discussion of his Mormonism. Why is it that all of these -- you can look at all these articles, they are bringing it up now. Has there been a mood change in the country about the importance of talking about religion?

 

    • Mitt Romney**: No, I don’t think so. I think actually back in ’68 there were a number of people who had the same concerns about my dad’s faith, but it just got quickly pushed aside. It was discussed early, early in the -- his race for presidency and then became a non-issue because there were questions about Vietnam and our ability to compete and questions about the direction for the country and those things swept any questions about the particular brand of religion people have aside.

 

Look, all religions are unusual to people who don’t grow up in them, don’t understand them. They have their elements that require a bit of faith to accept. And I just don’t think Americans are going to get into a doctrinal comparison of one religion versus another as they look at their -- at the people who might lead them.

 

They look for people of faith and they look for individuals who follow Abraham Lincoln’s admonition, which is to subscribe to America’s political religion where you place the Constitution and the rule of law first.

 

C-Span from Brian Lamb

Religion Questions for Governor Mitt Romney

  1. 1st Debate
    1. What do you say to bishops who deny Communion to elected officials who support abortion rights?
    2. Do you accept Huckabee's statement that he wasn't talking about you?
  2. Mike Allen
    1. Why are key tenets of your faith still misunderstood?
    2. How is your church so successful in getting its young people to follow its teachings?
  3. Brian Lamb
    1. Who was Brigham Young?
    2. Well, if you go back -- and I found the name Pratt in your background who was some circuitous route related to Joseph Smith who was one of the founders of Mormonism.
    3. Are you prepared to deal with attacks on your religion?
    4. Do you have an evangelical problem?
    5. Has there been a mood change in the country about the importance of talking about religion?
    6. One place that I found that you almost died (His Mission)
  4. Wolf Blitzer
    1. How do you deal with the fact that you are a Mormon?
  5. Robert B Bluey
    1. Are you prepared to deal with what is bound to be attacks from the media and opponents about your religious faith?
  6. Wolf Blitzer
    1. Will evangelicals support a Mormon?
  7. Hugh Hewitt
    1. Does the country know enough about radical islam?
    2. Do you stand by your use of the word Islamic-facism?
    3. How many times are you going to have to ask and answer these questions?
  8. Jay Leno
    1. Is their enough diversity within the Mormon Church?
  9. Katherine Jean Lopez
    1. Will an exposé on Mormon Christmas celebrations hurt you in the primaries?
  10. George Stephanopoulos
    1. How does your faith inform your politics?
  11. Chris Wallace
    1. Are you a cultist?

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