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Posted by: Lowell Brown at 04:29 pm, December 21st 2006 &mdash No Comments yet »

Mitt Romney's much-examined positions on gay rights and abortion, and his consistency on those issues, are political matters; but the two issues are so important to religious conservatives that we think it's appropriate for us to link to Dean Barnett's post today. Dean's perspective is important because he provides an "up close and personal" view of Romney's position on the issues and of Romney the man. As a young volunteer in Romney's 1994 Massachusetts Senate campaign, Dean was Romney's driver.

As is the case with most Barnett pieces, this one defies easy summary, so I won't excerpt any key paragraphs for you. As Glenn Reynolds often says, read the whole thing.

I will, however, quote these thoughts from the comments to Dean's post, because they made me chuckle:

I will not hold Romney's Mormonism agin 'im. I am evangelical and southern. I dislike the impression that we are stubborn to the point of shooting ourselves in the foot over something like this. I can understand the notion but I can't picture, when it gets right down to THE VOTE, evangelicals sitting it out or pulling the lever for any stinkin' Dem.

As for me, I want to encourage my fellow evangelicals to remember we are spiritually descended from Abraham. Abe was practical and wiley. He wouldn't refuse a smart deal unless it imperilled(?) his faith. I don't feel any threat to my faith coming from Mormons. Hot secular chicks, sure, but not Utah. The worst that I could see happening is that Mormons take over and force us all to start drinking Sprite.

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