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Yesterday we linked to a story about an ex-Mormon "warning" about Romney.  Now the same story is showing up at a French site.  I've done a little more poking – the source of the story is a news service called "American Family News Network."  They are a division of Donald Wildmon's American Family Association (check the sidebar).  Wildmon is about as far right as the Christian right gets, unless you want to incorporate the Klan, which I, for one, don't.  He is pure fundamentalist, definitely not evangelical, so it is not really surprising that he would be lining up against Romney.  If this is where the creedal Christian opposition to Romney takes root, it is so far out on the fringe as to not be a big deal.

Lowell:  That's odd, if true. I had heard from eyewitnesses that Wildmon has attended Romney events and was actually quite friendly to Romney.

John retorts: I heard the same thing, but that was then and this is now – things have gotten serious.

From France to the Middle East…an Arab outlet reports on candidate outreach to Israel.

A South African source carries a Bloomberg story handicapping the race.  It has a paragraph breakdown on each candidate.  Here's a telling pull quote:

As a Mormon, he could face religious bigotry.

They seem to think opposition on religious grounds is definitionally bigoted.

Is there a new religious right?  One that looks more like a religious middle?  It should be interesting to see if the old religious right lines up with the new in the form of Huckabee and Brownback, or stays ideologically aligned with the old which is currently represented by Romney.

It's about to become offically official.

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