We Should Lay off Using Romney's Mormon Beliefs as a Criticism

[MineralMan]

201. Of course I think they would. The right sucks.

That's the old "well, Billy started it" argument. I don't do things because someone else did. I do things because I think they're the things to do.

What the right wing does about anything is not my model of how to act. They did a similar thing with JFK over his Catholicism. That didn't work. I remember the speech JFK made about that.

I find it completely acceptable to criticize any position Romney holds. He's not shy about his positions, even though they do tend to change from time to time. If he says he opposes marriage equality, for example, I'll take him at his word. That, alone would cost him any chance of my vote, but there are dozens and dozens of other positions he holds that would keep me from ever voting for him.

He's a Mormon? OK. So's Harry Reid, and I'd vote for him to remain in his position in a second, if I lived in his state.

I don't give a crap what someone's stated religion is. I care what a person says he or she stands for. It is those public positions that get or lose my vote, not religious beliefs or holy underwear.