Monday, December 03, 2007

Beware the Mormon Captivity?   [Jonah Goldberg]

So I've been getting email for something like two years now from thoughtful, articulate and from what I can tell decent evangelical or conservative Christians explaining to me why they have everything from "reservations" and "concerns" to outright revulsion at the prospect of having a Mormon be the Republican nominee or the President of the United States (often the concern seems to me more passionate about the nomination, though that might simply be a result of the fact the nomination comes first). I'd like to say I understand all the theological issues, but I don't. But don't care to understand all of the theological issues either.

What I would like to know, however, is what exactly these people think a Mormon President might do that would be so unacceptable? Are there Mormon public policies I do not know of that would be implemented? Is there a Mormon faction in foreign policy?

I've been reading up a bit because I want to write about "the speech" but so far I haven't found much on this basic question.

12/03 08:55 AMShare