I decided to take a look through the Web site of one of the top, and certainly the most vocal (and rabid) religious right organization, the American Family Association, and see what they had to say about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
What piqued my interest was the dearth of email alerts and updates from the religious right over the past week about the growing discussion over Mitt Romney's Mormonism. What's odd is that the religious right groups are the first to cry "you hate Christians" whenever anyone even mentions a scintilla of disagreement with them on anything. It's therefore a wee bit surprising that the religious right has been mum about what some on the right are trying to label "Mormon-bashing." After all, Romney is positioning himself as the religious right Christian candidate for president, so wouldn't you think the religious right Christians would be the first to defend one of their own?
They're not.
Is it that the religious right has a bit of a problem with Mormons, or anyone who is not a Southern Baptist? After all, these are the people who think that Catholics aren't Christians because they worship a "Satanic counterfeit." Is it that far a stretch to wonder whether the same people who think Catholics are going to hell have a problem with Mormons?
Anyway, I was rather surprised to find quite a library of anti-Romney writings on the American Family Association's Web site in a large number of articles from the past few years. Here are a few excerpts/blurbs from the AFA about Romney - note that each one is from a different story about Romney:
A pro-family activist predicts that with every new revelation about the liberal record of now-former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney...
A pro-family activist group in Massachusetts is warning that Governor Mitt Romney is not the conservative politician he's portraying himself to be...
Michigan conservative says Mitt Romney is too liberal
Cardinal O'Malley asked Governor Mitt Romney for a religious exemption... Governor Romney reluctantly responded that he lacked legal authority
A conservative activist in Massachusetts says he is very disappointed by Governor Mitt Romney's decision on the state's emergency contraception law.
...denouncing a large homosexual and transgender youth event in Boston this weekend -- an event that is being promoted by Governor Mitt Romney's office.
Some pro-family groups and the conservative media are being accused of covering up the fact that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is "the founding father of homosexual marriage' -- or so says a parents coalition leader in that state.
Christians seek Romney clarification on homosexual rights
Group Demands Romney Roll Back Pro-Homosexual Program Funding.
A former Republican presidential candidate says former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has hurt his run for the White House by not supporting America's top general over remarks the military leader made that homosexual acts are "immoral."...
