This could get really ugly.

Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton will be attending “Pentecost 2007: Taking the Vision to the Streets” forum on Monday, June 4 at George Washington University in the District of Columbia.

So now instead of arguing whether Romney's Mormonism is Christian or not, we are going to get into a discussion about whether God is left or right, Republican or Democrat?  I have got to think that is the path to hell.

If you think things are ugly now, can you imagine how they will be if this is what happens?  Imagine if rather than deciding who to vote for based on faith we start deciding who is faithful based on their vote.  Now we just do not have improper religious issues in politics, we have politics driving the religious bus.  Wouldn't it cease to be religion at all under those circumstances?

That's why the goal of this blog is to reduce the influence of religion, if NOT religious people, in political debate.

John Mark Reynolds agrees, media has it in for us Evangelicals - they want to paint us as losers however they can.

Lowell:  Here's JMR's first paragraph, denoted the "Bottom Line:"

Soon the media is going to tell you, traditional Christian, that you are voting for Romney because you are too stupid not to do so . . . just as one month ago they were implying that you were too big of a bigot to vote for Romney.

The whole thing is simply delightful, and a must-read. 

Nancy from EFM lands on NewsMax.

Lowell:  Another great read.  And more:

David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register analyzes Romney's polling surge there:

The polls also indicate some of the national story lines are having little impact on caucus-goers.  . . . On the GOP side, all the yammering about Romney's Mormon religious faith being a liability appears to be more of an obsession with the political community than it is to caucus-goers. The same is true of all the talk about his flip flopping or changing his position on issues. Like Edwards, Romney has organized well and spent lots of time here. He combines an upbeat message with an executive persona.

 

Both candidates are doing well because they are seen by activists as guys who can be winners in November 2008.

HT:  John Hood at NRO's The Corner, who also notes that Yepsen "has for years been the go-to journalist when the national media want to understand Iowa caucus politics."

And finally . . .

K-Lo interviews Bay Buchanan, who happens to be one of those Mormons:

Lopez: You share a religion with Mitt Romney and you’re an active movement-conservative type. Are people tolerant toward Mormons? Are conservative Christians — or could they do him in?

Buchanan: I am most aware of an anti-Mormon bias among elements of the Christian conservatives. To a lesser degree I saw anti-Catholic bias among the same crowd when I was involved in my brother’s campaigns. I do not believe religious bigotry is enough to derail Governor Romney’s campaign for President, but it does present a significant primary hurdle for him.

Translation:  Yes, there's bias but it need not be fatal to Romney's candidacy.  In one way, a disappointingly bland answer; in another, further evidence that there's just not much more to say about the ultimate impact of The Question.

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