Pray Tell by Jonathan Chait in The New Republic
The wrong reason to hate Mitt Romney.
The secularism that has generally prevailed since World War II is precisely what has allowed a Catholic to be elected president and a Jew to be nominated as vice president, among other ways that religious tolerance has expanded.
Latter-Day Skeptics by Josh Patashnik in The New Republic
Mormons against Romney.
Ever since they made their peace with the federal government and won statehood for Utah more than a century ago, Mormons have strained to overcome their status as outsiders. And Romney’s run for president could represent a major step forward in that quest, accomplishing for Mormons what John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign did for Catholics: signaling that they are finally legitimate players in American life. “There’s a feeling that this signifies, in some sense, that we’ve arrived,” says Mormon historian Richard Lyman Bushman.
There’s just one catch.