Who didn’t see this coming?
An essential part of those attacks (on the President) was the idea that America is a Christian nation and needs to be led by a Christian that understands that. And that’s exactly the kind of criticisms Romney is facing. It’s not that he’s a bad guy, the detractors on stage here at VVS have said (which is more credit than Obama often got), it’s that Christians really need a Christian to lead them. And – despite its allegiance to Jesus Christ – Mormonism just doesn’t fit the bill, some here say.
“I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man, but I think those of us who are born-again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian to a competent – to a competent non-Christian like Mitt Romney,” Dr. Robert Jeffress, the man who caused a stir Friday when he introduced and publicly endorsed Rick Perry here, told CNN.
He also called Mormonism a cult.
I tell ya, the good “values voters” on the right view the LDS church as on par with Wicca.
Jefress wasn’t the only committed anti-Mormon to take the stage at VVS. Leading up to the event, there was much hype about Bryan Fischer, the radical evangelical known for saying Mormons don’t really have the same Constitutional rights as other faiths, taking the stage right after Romney on Saturday.
He used a similar line to Jeffress, saying the founding fathers — he mentioned John Jay specifically as Jeffress has — expected a Christian to lead the nation.
They’d rather have the master of N****head than a non-Christian. You read it here first. It is going to be Perry.