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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I believe that was a factor. I think the leaders of LDS church had a huge say in what and or how he took those positions.
I would have felt the same way if he'd been a Scientologists.
I don't think that's the same issue regarding Obama and his church.
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Tully - this in interesting. I don't think that the LDS leadership factored in at all. Romney did what he needed to do to get elected governor of Massachusetts, and his ideals either had to flex to fit that roll, or they were his real beliefs to begin with. When he ran for POTUS, I think that he changed his message in an attempt to capture the Republican right, which is probably the most valuable portion of the party since they do so well at actually voting. Honestly, if he had stayed true to his message as governor, I would have thought about voting for him, but that went away almost as soon as he declared for President.
As far as your idea about Scientologists, I'm going to have to give that a lot more thought. For some reason I can't get the South Park "Tom Cruise is in the closet" episode out of my head when pondering it. You do raise an interesting point, though.