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Why can’t the Evangelicals get along with the Mormons?
Posted By katie allison granju
That’s what Bob Krumm is asking:
How very ironic and sad that Evangelical Christians who are the biggest victims of religious intolerance in America–at least within the media and popular political culture–are themselves among the perpetrators of religious intolerance against Mormons. Heck, they’re even on the same side of nearly every political issue with you. It’s not an accident that the most Republican state in the Union is also the most Mormon. If you can make peace with Catholics because of a common cause as you have since 1980, why not Mormons?
A.C. Kleinheider weighs in:
Dial it back 12 years, Pat Buchanan is running for President as a social conservative. He does well but the leaders of the evangelical right do not support him. Why?
Well, the reasons they gave ran anywhere from his alleged antisemitism to his position on international trade. All valid reasons to shy away to be sure but had Buchanan been an evangelical Christian instead of a Pre-Vatican II Catholic would those problems have been overlooked?
Same thing for Romney. Many evangelicals will cite his flip-flopping as the reason that they didn’t vote for him. And let’s be frank, he did evolve quite a bit over the years. But had Romney been on fire for the Lord and the words in the bible (and only those words) would the flip-flopping have been overlooked?
Feb 8th, 2008
Who actually gets along with the evangelicals, besides other evangelicals?