JONES: Mormonism is pantheistic -- it is a religion of -- well, it doesn't teach the same thing about Jesus Christ that we teach. Mormonism teaches that Jesus Christ...
KING: Came back,
JONES: ... were brothers, that they were spirit children that God and his wife fathered in heaven, and that when there's a Mormon marriage in the temple and so forth and so on, that that couple when they die go to a planet and people it with spirit children, just like God and his wife people heaven, and that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers, and that Lucifer rebelled, and Jesus sided with the father. Therefore, he had -- the Bible teaches very clearly that Jesus Christ is God. He is not a created being, he is God. He is in essence -- he is very God of very God.
I bring this up because anyone who thinks the religious right is going to vote for a Mormon is deluding themselves. These people think Catholics are the anti-Christ. You think they're going to embrace Mormons?
ABC's Jake Tapper explained on THIS WEEK today that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "fuzzing" his description of his Mormon faith in order to make it sound more mainstream to American voters. Tapper also explains why asking about Romney's Mormonism is fair game (basically, because Romney is running as a faith-based candidate, so it's fair to ask him about the faith that he says will influence his judgment). Not to mention, the Republicans routinely judge others by their faith if that faith happens to be Islam (or any version of Christianity that isn't Southern Baptist). What's the difference here?
