Romney Slated to Speak at Evangelical College Comm...

Mitt Romney, Mormon presidential candidate, will give the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on May 12, 2012.  The University was founded by the late Evangelical televangelist, Jerry Falwell.   The university is a bastion of evangelical education and sentiment.   The university estimated that 14,000 students will graduate at the ceremony, with some...

Santorum Quits Presidential Race

At an event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum’s home state due for primary voting on April 24th, 2012,  Santorum announced that he will suspend his campaign for the Republican nomination.   The news was released on April 9th and was welcomed by both those for him and against him.  All three trailing candidates, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul, had been urged to quit, so that...

Why Some Evangelicals Support Mitt Romney

While surfing the internet, this writer happened upon an interesting website, Evangelicals for Mitt.org. On this website there is an article: “Why We Support Mitt.”  The article starts off with this statement, “We want a candidate who shares our political and moral values and priorities, can win in 2012, and can govern effectively thereafter by articulating and implementing...

How Can an Evangelical Vote for a Mormon?

On the Evangelicals for Mitt website, there is an intriguing (for Mormons) section called “How Can I Vote for a Mormon.” This is a fair question, since I am sure if the position were reversed, we would be asking the same thing. Here are some comments from the website under that broad heading: How do you think Mitt Romney can overcome his “evangelical problem? Answer: “Briefly,...

How Romney Stands on Conservative Issues

Note: This is the last of three articles highlighting comments from the website Evangelicals for Mitt.  The first two are Why Some Evangelicals Support Mitt Romney and How Can an Evangelical Vote for a Mormon? It is both cheering and instructive that the headline for this section of the website reads, “Gov. Romney is for traditional marriage and he has proven it.” There follows bullet...