Evangelical Anxiety: Romney win could legitimize LDS Church

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When Billy Graham scrubbed his website of information on cults, like Mormonism (his term, not mine), it didn't please everyone. The thinking is that it is one thing to vote for Romney (his opponent is, after all, black) but that political expediency does not justify pretending that Romney is a Christian.

...For evangelicals, berating Billy Graham is like Catholics dissing the pope. Through his globe-trotting crusades and passionate preaching, the nearly 94-year-old evangelist has converted countless Christians and almost single-handedly ushered evangelicalism into the modern age.

But when "the greatest proclaimer of the gospel in the last century," as one Southern Baptist called Graham, embraced Mormonism last week, he confirmed conservative evangelicals' worst fears about the 2012 election: That Romney's rise would lift his Mormon church to cultural prominence and acceptance within mainstream Christianity.

Howell Scott, senior pastor Bethel Baptist Church in Alamogordo, N.M., said the BGEA's declassification of Mormonism as a cult "will have disastrous unintended consequences." "The most immediate consequence will be the acceptance and approval of Mormonism as a legitimate Christian 'denomination' or faith group," Scott wrote on his blog last week. "The blurring will only increase if Mitt Romney is elected president."

Most evangelicals do not consider Mormons Christian because Latter-day Saints revere Joseph Smith as a prophet, consider the Book of Mormon on par with the Bible and conceive of the Christian Trinity as three separate gods. Mormons acknowledge those differences but insist they are Christians...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/billy-graham-website-mormon-cult-removed-backlash_n_2012209.html

[Marr]

1. I love it when bigots have to choose their most important issue.

For con-men like Graham, it was apparently a pretty easy choice. Religious bigotry lost without a fight to racial bigotry (or even more likely, plain old money).

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

2. YES it could!

Makes you wonder how it will affect voter turnout.

[Berlum]

3. RepubliWanker 'chrystians' gettin all jiggy with the Accursed Infidels (R)

Tsk tsk tsk

[TwilightGardener]

4. Polygamy! Being a god on another planet! Magic underwear!

It's coming, fundies--your leader just said it's all OK now...