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.

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