More fun with politics and religion:
Marco Rubio -- a Tea Party darling, Republican Senator from Florida, Cuban-American and Devout Catholic -- may be disqualified from being a VP candidate in the Republican Party because... wait for it... he was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of 8. This information is from an extensive article on
BuzzFeed.comA former Mormon? Well, that won't do. No, that won't do at all.
It is bad enough that we have a Mormon still in the running for president. But VP too?!
Forget the fact that Rubio was 8-years old at the time and several other family members were also baptized; forget that 5 years later he took his first communion in the Catholic Church.
... That childhood "indiscretion" apparently is enough in the minds of some pundits to knock him off a potential GOP ticket.
After all, we all know about those Mormons. What? Need a refresher? How about this tasty tidbit:
“Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?” That was written by Santorum in 2007.
Please don't make me pull out the quotes from Pastor Robert Jeffress. You know I will...
This is what I take from this: Mormons are just fine as a socio-religious oddity in the mountains of the West, but they cannot be tolerated in any position of power out of concern for their
proselytizing power.
I am amending my original assessment of the 2012 campaign. In my opinion, the country is still not ready to elect a Mormon as president and it may not even tolerate a former-Mormon-now-Catholic for vice president.
Ain't politics and religion fun?
