Damascus, Mormon Boy Scouts, and Perez Hilton
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We all know that Mitt Romney is rich, but just how much does his church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, get within a year? Oh, just about $7 billion.
A running narrative -- sometime prominent, other times latent -- in the 2012 election is Romney's Mormonism, and whether it might scare away many a good evangelical Republican from the voting booth.
Ann Romney, who is not running for president, has rekindled the Mommy Wars by giving a single interview defending herself after a Democratic talking head said a single mean thing about her resume.
Though Mormons have been explicitly banned from posthumously baptizing late Holocaust survivors since 1995, religious leaders found themselves apologizing yesterday for annointing the parents of a famous Nazi hunter into their ranks.
Newt Gingrich fired his Iowa political director for saying, "A lot of the evangelicals believe God would give us four more years of Obama just for the opportunity to expose the cult of Mormon" in a focus group a day before Gingrich hired him last week.
Arthur Laffer on 9-9-9, Robert Jeffress on religion and politics, and Jordan Tama on the Super Committee
A core Perry supporter says he must juxtapose "traditional Christianity to the false God of Mormonism"
Says Perry is the best pick to be president because he's "born-again follower of Jesus Christ"
Virginia school board declares 'A Study in Scarlet' to be derogatory
Obama campaign plans to say his 2012 challenger is not like the rest of us
The Wall Street Journal outlines the preemptive steps the church has taken
And only 38 percent know that Obama is Christian
They'll seek protection under a Supreme Court ruling striking down anti-sodomy laws
Frontrunner Romney is looking to cut off Hunstman's support in homestate Utah
The ambsassador set aside Mormon beliefs on alcohol at official ceremonies
Mormons almost like 'Book of Mormon'
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