Justin Webb's America

Unchristian behaviour

• Justin Webb
• 6 Dec 07, 02:40 PM GMT

If you are coming afresh to the Mitt Romney Mormon controversy (he made a big speech today at President Bush's father's library in Texas) and you wonder what all the fuss is about, take a look at this little message aimed at his wife Ann, whose father was from Wales, and was presumably not a Mormon.

I remember meeting her more than a year ago, when the campaign was getting going, and talking about the travails in store. I wonder, though, whether she could have imagined some evangelical Christians would be so, well, un-Christian.

Two things though. Are we over-hyping the wild fringes here to get a story, or are Americans genuinely worried about the Garden of Eden being in Missouri (the Mormons apparently believe it was ) - and why deliver the speech in Texas?

Seriously, of all the places Mitt Romney might go to appeal to conservative Republicans I reckon the Bush Library would be about the worst choice, except, perhaps, Salt Lake City itself...

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