Pot Meet Kettle
Who else sees hypocrisy in a Mormon supporter of Mitt Romney (by the way, he’s out of the race!) complaining that many evangelical Christians in the South support Mike Huckabee? This is especially funny because many of the Mormons I know are Romney supporters (coincidentally, I’m sure) and he won the Utah primary. I think Maurine Proctor has no room to criticize religious prejudice or bias in politics. I wonder if she would complain if the shoe were on the other foot. I wonder if office holders in Utah are disproportionately LDS. Matthew 7:3–5 anyone?
Update: One of Jay’s comments at LDS & Evangelical Conversations led me to support for my anecdotal evidence that most of the Mormons I know supported Romney. 9 out of 10 sounds eerily familiar.
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February 7, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Heh, yeah. It’s been reported that 90% of Utah repubs voted for Romney … and who came in second? Ron Paul. Then compare the relatively close races in the bible-belt between Huck and Mac with Mitt also running well and you get the clear picture that Mormons are actually afraid of their own shadow ’cause they are the ones with a HUGE religious bias.
Of course, it’s different when the candidate is also a High Priest in god’s kingdom. That’s not bias — just common sense.
February 7, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
The results I found show McCain in a distant second with 5% of the vote to Romney’s 90%. Un-be-lievable. Actually, I can believe it.
February 7, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Yes, that’s correct. I’m going off what was being reported on MSNBC the night of Super-monster Tuesday … just guessing that Salt Lake County Repub results hadn’t come in yet … Ron Paul would have been in second based on the Utah Valley results.
February 7, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Not that the second place position is all that important considering Romney’s 90% share. I’m a stickler for details (to a fault).
Seth R. said,
February 7, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
Bleh…
You’re still reading Meridian Jonathan?!
No wonder you don’t want to come back.
Incidentally, a Evangelical blogger called the Mormons on this very issue. You can peruse the discussion here:
http://ldstalk.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/politically-speaking/
February 7, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Call it a hobby.
Reading Meridian keeps me in touch with who I was as a Mormon. You may not be that kind of Mormon, but I was. Sad but true.
Thanks for the link. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the reek of hypocrisy.
sniffs armpits when no one’s looking
February 7, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
I’m posting an email that I just got from a private email list that I’m on without the author’s prior permission. I hope keeping it anonymous make this kosher. I’m not trying to ridicule this person or cast any blame. I’m just illustrating the nature of some of the Mormon support for Romney:
Romney’s failed candidacy is somehow seen as a lost battle in the war between God and Satan. I know I’m putting words in this person’s mouth, but that is the view: Romney represented God in this presidential race, just like some people believe that Huckabee represents God.
February 7, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
(see updated post above) … and Nevada Mormons don’t have the excuse that Romney helped out an Olympics in their state.
February 7, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Well, you’re not the only former “Meridian Mormon” around these parts. I’m with you. I can feel the “desperate in Zion” writer’s pain as if it were my own, ’cause I’m not that far from having felt the same way.
On the mish we all but worshipped at Truman Madsen’s feet as he described the life and times of Joseph Smith. For me, Mitt could have easily been seen as a proxy for the failed Presidential run of JS. I had in fact thought of the reconstuction of the Nauvoo temple as a kind of resurrection — and certainly would have thought of President Romney as further vindication … and proof for my faith that God makes all things right in the end.
In other words … there is no doubt much “spiritual” and physical sorrow in Zion over this set-back. I can taste it like the morning after a birthday party at Buca di Beppo.
February 7, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Anonymous said,
February 11, 2008 @ 1:03 am
Fortunately not all of us Republican Mormons voted for Romney. Some of us voted for Ron Paul. The more I look at my politics, the more I’m thinking of becoming a Libertarian (and borderline Marxist oddly).
Oh and lets not forget about demographics: only about 60% of Utah is Mormon (only 40% in SLC) and not all of them are RePublicans, many are long time Demoncracts too. I knew an active member who when the missionaries came over for dinner he’d ask them if they liked Rush Limbaugh. If they said yes, he’d say get out. His wife of course would make sure they still got fed though. Not caring much about politics at the time I did ask, “who’s Rush Limbaugh?” Mmmmm, that was a good pot roast and potatoes that night.
February 13, 2008 @ 9:56 am
The most important demographic to consider is the proportion of Mormons among the Republican voters in Utah. In Nevada, as reported in the article that I linked to, Mormons were 25% of the voters but Mormons are only 7% of the population.