What about Separation of Church and State?

To day starts the voting process at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida!   All of my life I have watched both parties because I come from a "mixed" marriage.  My Dad was a Republican (one of four in the county) and my mother was a acquiescent Democrat!  I consider myself a Democrat now!

The Republicans will nominate Mitt Romney today if the hurricane does not blow them away first;  but it does not seem to be an "easy" marriage.  One of his problems is his religion;  Mitt Romney is a Mormon.   I turned on the television and Sen. Orrin Hatch, of Utah said he did not think that his being a Mormon would be a problem.  (Senator Hatch is also a Mormon)!

 

Senator Hatch also added that he didn't think that Romney should spend any time defending his religious choice;  Americans wanted to know "What are you going to do for us?"  But many other non-Mormons in the Party, especially conservative evangelicals, want a little more reassurance about what kind of religion this Mormonism is?

 

And me, I'm a Baptist  -- not a good one but once a good one if you measure "good" by faithful attendance, active in congregation type of standards, and all of my life I have heard the Baptist doctrine of "Separation of Church and State".  We ooze it at our seams but do we really believe it!  If we really believe it, then why would it make any difference about whether he is a Mormon or a Yoruban?

 

So I went to Barnes and Noble, bought a book called "30 Second Religion" and read the page on Mormonism.  This 3 minute theology overview says:  "For Mormons, God has a physical body (albeit exalted in heaven), Jesus is the perfect first-born Son of God and the Trinity consists of three distinct beings united in a common purpose."

 

What I truly believe in is the same thing I've long believed in!   I believe in the Separation of Church and State.  I believe that we should never allow a President to spew his religious views upon this country.   I am not for Mitt Romney but it is because I am a liberal Democrat; not because I am a Mormon-hater!