John Dehlin

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this footage of Romney actually makes me like him more than I did before. What do you think?

 A fun little article about Mormons, politics, and Mitt Romney from Newsweek.

By Lisa Miller

Newsweek

July 23, 2007 issue – As a rule, Mormons tend to be white, conservative and Republican—and as obedient to established authority as any group out there—but a close look reveals cracks in that glossy surface. There’s Harry Reid, of course, the Mormon convert and vocal leader of the Senate Democrats. And there’s Orrin Hatch, conservative, Republican and Mormon to the core—except that he supports embryonic-stem-cell research, an issue upon which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has no official stance but which President George W. Bush opposes. (more…)

I’m gonna start sharing in a single stream all that I listen to.

This is from Radiowest — a discussion on whether or not Mormons are Christian, in the context of Mitt Romney’s run for president.

Enjoy!

Holy Moly! I can’t escape Mitt Romney today in the media, no matter where I turn!!!! Seriously.

• I wake up this morning and a friend IM’s me about an NPR story today called “Black and Mormon”, that begins with a mention of Mitt Romney (though not by name).
• I go to exercise this morning w/ my iPod, and there he is on Tom Ashbrook’s “On Point” podcast — in an episode called “Mitt’s Run”.
• Driving home from the gym, I turn on Michael Medved, and the main topic for the day is — you guessed it — Mitt Romney.
• I’m doing some gardening work around lunchtime, and so I turn to an episode of Bill Moyer’s Journal entitled “Keeping the Faith” (again a podcast), and Mitt Romney is all over that too.
• I go to the Politico web site to learn about the GOP debates tonight, and there he is again — this time in an article entitled, “Anti-Mormon Campaign Slams Romney“.
• And this doesn’t even count Romney on the front page of Time magazine, with 2 articles:
  • What Mitt Romney Believes, along with
  • Romney’s Mormon Question
• Along with the recent article in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine dealing with the LDS Church’s recent attempts to reach out to blacks entitled, “The Saints Go Marching In“
• And don’t forget his appearance on 60 Minutes last Sunday.

Holy Moly!!! Mitt Romney is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

It will be VERY, VERY interesting to see where this all leads.