Yes, I Can Vote To Elect A Mormon As President!

At the top I profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior having a personal commitment to Him having received influence from Christian parents and Bible-believing churches. We were taught that the denominational label was not the issue but our relationship to God the Father. From there I would go on to say that I'm related to, a friend of, and/or acquainted with a number of Mormon people having grown up in Southern California which had a growing LDS and RLDS population going back to the 1800s. From history I understand that their founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., believed that all the Protestant churches in his New York region had become corrupted and that he was chosen as a prophet to restore the one true Church which would rightly honor Jesus Christ and conduct itself as He had intended. Now I mean to do no one any harm with that summary. I do not know the mind or the heart of Joseph Smith or his successor Brigham Young. If the LDS church today still maintains that it is the "one true Church" of Jesus Christ then it is one of the matters of their traditions, beliefs, and practices with which I disagree. But we Americans have points in common as well as our differences. As a teenager I became a very small-scale political activist helping to walk precincts and make telephone contacts on behalf of candidates and issues that I supported. A number of us who took an active part in "Conservative" and Republican political matters came from a number of religious traditions including Jewish, Roman Catholic, Mormon, "Mainline" Protestant, and Evangelical/Orthodox/Fundamental. We were taking part in the process most likely because we had guidance from our religious/spiritual upbringing that God is real and that He has determined right from wrong and that government should NOT violate the founding precepts of our Republic which came from Jewish and Christian belief and teaching. We Americans of a Traditionalist/"Conservative" bent still hold a variety of religious views which matter to us even if we don't all agree on every point and distinctive. How deeply Governor Mitt Romney and his family are involved with the LDS is for them to decide. Similarly, President Obama's spiritual beliefs are his own responsibility whether he honestly acknowledges Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or he benefits from being prepared with acceptable Evangelical buzz-words and phrases which make him sound like a Bible-believer at a given moment. But when it comes to the governing of this Constitutionally-defined Republic I prefer someone with real-world business and governing experience and whose religious views follow Smith and Young and who will adhere to the Constitution rather than someone deeply influenced by Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky with their commitment to a remaking of the United States on a progressivist socialist fantasy model. In other words, yes I do support Governor Mitt Romney for President in 2012.