Mitt Romney delivers deeply spiritual address, but avoids his Mormonism, at Liberty University
Source: Washington Post
Mitt Romney delivers deeply spiritual address, but avoids his Mormonism, at Liberty University
By Philip Rucker, Updated: Saturday, May 12, 11:39 AM
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Making by far his most spiritual speech of his presidential campaign, Republican Mitt Romney on Saturday offered a fierce defense of Judeo-Christian values and an America that he said “has trusted in God, not man.”
Romney sought to root his candidacy in faith with a commencement address at Liberty University in which he spoke of a shared “Christian conscience” to bridge his Mormon faith with that of evangelical Christians. But the all-but-certain nominee largely sidestepped divisive social issues in his speech to more than 6,000 graduates and some 30,000 of their friends and family members here at one of the nation’s most influential bastions of political and Christian conservatism.
Although Romney spoke of common spiritual values, he did not discuss his personal faith. The candidate who is poised to make history as the first Mormon to win a major party’s presidential nomination made no reference to his Mormonism.
“Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition, with its vision of the goodness and possibilities of every life,” Romney said. “From the beginning, this nation has trusted in God, not man.. . .There is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.”
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Compare and contrast.
“Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition, with its vision of the goodness and possibilities of every life,” Romney said. “From the beginning, this nation has trusted in God, not man.. . .There is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.”
"Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right."
— Larry Mundinger, 1999
What Mitt fails to realize is that he's never going to pin down America and take a scissors to it.
And another thing. Mittens, why are you so afraid to talk about your own religion directly? Because it came on the back of a cereal box? (Oh, wait, it was inside of a hat.) Because when you open the book of Mormon at any hotel, you find Joseph Smith smugly next to Jesus in the pictures at the front? Wearing a 50s suit?
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Personally, I think a person's religion is a distraction. I don't care about his theology, except to the extend it may influence his political/policy decisions. I look to his policies (admittedly, Romney has been all over the map, position-wise). I'm sure Romney treats his family well. I look, instead, on how he treats the "little people (the "least of these"
", whether it's John Lauber, his dogs, the workers whose jobs he sent overseas, the workers at the companies he let go bankrupt while he and his friends at Bain made millions, etc.
