(CNN) - Bias against a Mormon presidential candidate hasn’t budged in 45 years, with 18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.
The survey points up potential challenges for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who is vying to be the first Mormon in the White House.
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I don't know about that but I do know if a person was a Mormon prior to 1978 and and been involved in that religion for a number of years they surely embraced the doctrine around the racial hatred and bias. Could explain why some people lie about a black President and at the same time, knows it is a lie, the press says it is not true and yet are entitled, so superior that they don't even offer an excuse. A old school Mormon.
Catholics will never vote for this Bain Capital idiot. Known truth.
I would be surprised, perhaps even appalled if Americans rejected a possible Presidential candidate based upon their chosen (especially mainstream) religion. The nuance is, do Americans want a church leader as a Presidential cadidate (a Catholic, Episcopal or Mormon Bishop, say)? I tend to think that may be where American's comfort level with a candidate's religion may end. We do, after all believe in and honor the separation of Church and State.
I don't give a crap about his religion, but it serves him right with the way he was giving dog whistles to his supporters about Obama "not being one of us" or "not understanding America". I hate to say it, but he deserves everything he gets!
Boo hoo, there is more bias against Obama because of race than there is against Romney for his religion.
The recent poll should come as no surprise given the ignorance and intolerance expressed by the two previous posts. Its unfortunate that any religion has to become the punching bag of ill-informed members of society, particularly one that has done so much good throughout the world.
There's a lot about Mormons we don't know and we sure aren't hearing anything about them from Mitt Romney or his five(5) sons; they've had plenty of opportunities but still not a peep out of them. Why the secrecy, they talk about Obama but not themselves.
The GOP is afraid that more Americans will know about Mormons before the elections.
Rmoney's father dropped out of the presidential race after making a gaffe about the Vietnam War.
Mitt Rmoney preferred to run away to France as a Mormon missionary while true Americans were fighting in Vietnam.
Mitt Rmoney prefers to stash his ill-gotten wealth in Switzerland in stead of paying tax in America.
Why is he not running for the president of Europe?
This is sad, people can accept where President Obama went to church but can not accept someone from a Mormon church?? Just as each religion has different teachings depending on the specific church' same with Mormons. In each religion there are those who take their beliefs to the extreme. From what I have seen of the Romneys they are kind, caring people, not at all as some want or hope to believe they are.
Just as long is the candidate is not a God hating intolerant athiests who seem to spew ugliness I do no think most Americanse care about their religion. I am not a Mormom but do know some of them and they have always been very good people. What people dislike is the these crazies that dislike people because of their race or religion.
Mitt Romney could be an ATHEIST for all I care. It is not his religion at all that keeps me from voting for him..it's his policies.
So 18% of republicans won’t vote Romney
Ok ... where are all the liberals now? Remember when they attacked everyone and everything because they felt that their beloved President Obama was being biased against because he was black ... isn’t religious bigotry as bad as racial bigotry? Liberals stand up … and defend Romney from the religious bigotry that is happening mostly among your liberal friends … if you read the poll numbers … almost 2 times as many democrats were bigots as republicans … 18% TO 10% …. Anyone want to bet as to whether the liberals raise up and attack the religious bigotry that seems to exist among 1/5 of their liberal brothers and sisters … I bet no!
Why am I not surprised, who aren't some Americans biased against?
Jon
Ok ... where are all the liberals now?
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Where are they? Because this is an inside the conservative loop problem. That percentage that they are talking about are mostly conservatives, Christian evangelicals.
@ Jon
I doubt very seriously if it the liberals that are in that 18%. Look no further than your Teas Party folks, evengelicals, and way far right wingers that would go against him for his religious background. Sorry but your rant against progressives has no basis. Go attack the conservatives that go against a person because of their religious beliefs or non-beliefs.
-Jon
Ok ... where are all the liberals now? Remember when they attacked everyone and everything because they felt that their beloved President Obama was being biased against because he was black ... isn’t religious bigotry as bad as racial bigotry? Liberals stand up … and defend Romney from the religious bigotry that is happening mostly among your liberal friends … if you read the poll numbers … almost 2 times as many democrats were bigots as republicans … 18% TO 10% …. Anyone want to bet as to whether the liberals raise up and attack the religious bigotry that seems to exist among 1/5 of their liberal brothers and sisters … I bet no!
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The issue of Mormonism was a far greater problem to the GOP than the Democrats. Its the persistent invasion into politics by the LDS leaders ( against professed Church doctrine, by the way) that upsets liberals, as well as the fact that the Mormon aristocrat has nothing in common with the average voter. Its his craven pandering and lies we object to, not his faith.
This should not be an issue. Shame on people. This country was based on religious freedoms.
Liberals whining that everyone is racist against Obama.
Grow up and quit crying wolf, 1d1ots.
Jon- Given all of the manufactured garbage distributed by the GOP and their mouthpieces at FOX and elsewhere about Mr. Obama, why would anyone from that party raise a peep about perceived dicrimination against Romney?
Frankly, I have't hear a single utterance about Mr. Romney and his region- yet the airwaves are full of paranoid junk about Obama being a Muslim, or born in Kenya, or lying about his college, or taking away our guns. Each and every item promoted by the GOP, and every one patently false.
He gets what he gives.
Yet liberals/democrats would prefer to vote for a man who has a M u s l i m background over a Mormon . Mormons have never caused the heartship we have had to deal with these people for over at least 20 years. I do not understand their reasoning.
Who cares about his religion, he will never be president anyway.
Willard "Mitt" Romney is what he is. Being a Mormon is the least of his concerns.
Jon
Ok ... where are all the liberals now? Remember when they attacked everyone and everything because they felt that their beloved President Obama was being biased against because he was black ... isn’t religious bigotry as bad as racial bigotry? Liberals stand up … and defend Romney from the religious bigotry that is happening mostly among your liberal friends … if you read the poll numbers … almost 2 times as many democrats were bigots as republicans … 18% TO 10% …. Anyone want to bet as to whether the liberals raise up and attack the religious bigotry that seems to exist among 1/5 of their liberal brothers and sisters … I bet no!
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Quite the strawman you've got there Jon. Can you please post a link to your claim that it's the "libruls" who are being intolerant? No? Didn't think so. Time to put your little strawman to bed, dear.
Reggiedw, what is a "heartship"?