Brigham Young’s Great-Great-Granddaughter on Mormonism and Mitt Romney

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2. Insights into character.

Personally, I don't care much about the theology of Mormonism vis-a-vis a candidate.

However, how an individual practices religion or lack of religion certainly provides an insight into that person's character.

Nixon was a Quaker ... but I don't know that he ever went to Quaker meeting for decades. Jimmy Carter was a Baptist, and his tolerance and liberalism caused him difficulties with his church -- that told us a lot about the kind of person he is, and why he ended up with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Rmoney strikes me as a pretty dedicated and committed Mormon, and that is probably why he doesn't want to talk about it very much (and another reason why he doesn't want to release his tax returns). That probably means that he and his wife subscribe to the more regressive and repressive parts of that particular religion.

In other words, if Rmoney was a 'jack Mormon' (as we called them in Wyoming) who was only a nominal member of the church, well, it wouldn't matter much. But as he appears to be an active, involved LDSer, then the practice of his 'faith' matters in figuring out what kind of leader and 'governor' he would be as President.

And I think that is fair game for debate and discussion.