{"id":132,"date":"2009-04-21T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/04\/mormonism-and-politics.html"},"modified":"2009-04-21T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T15:42:14","slug":"mormonism-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/04\/mormonism-and-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Mormonism and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Boston Globe, journalist Michael Paulson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles_of_faith\/2009\/04\/whats_it_like_t.html\">reports on a recent conference<\/a> held at Utah Valley University on &#8220;Mormonism in the Public Mind.&#8221; The talks Paulson summarized were largely about Mormonism and politics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One speaker who ran for office in Utah related the frustrations of being both a Mormon and a Democrat. He labels himself a &#8220;progressive Mormon.&#8221;  That probably comes across to some as a suggestion that those who are both Republican and Mormon are somehow regressive, which might explain why he didn&#8217;t get elected in largely Republican Utah (some Democrats do get elected there).<\/p>\n<p>A Mormon legal historian who publicly opposed Proposition 8 talked about his difficult experience. On the other hand, Mormons who disagreed with him didn&#8217;t picket outside his house.  Here are his comments on the Prop 8 campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It would be difficult to understate the effectiveness of the LDS campaign,&#8221; he said, citing doorbelling efforts, sign-holding, and election day efforts to get voters to the polls in support of Proposition 8. By contrast, he said, &#8220;the organizers of &#8216;No on 8&#8217; came across as rank amateurs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last speaker (other than Paulson himself) addressed the question of whether Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormonism cost him the Republican nomination. I&#8217;ve seen arguments going both ways; this scholar&#8217;s opinion is that &#8220;there&#8217;s a great argument to be made that he lost Iowa due to his religion,&#8221; which put Romney on the defensive for the balance of the nomination race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Boston Globe, journalist Michael Paulson reports on a recent conference held at Utah Valley University on &#8220;Mormonism in the Public Mind.&#8221; The talks Paulson summarized were largely about Mormonism and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mormonism and politics - Mormon Inquiry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/04\/mormonism-and-politics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mormonism and politics - Mormon Inquiry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the Boston Globe, journalist Michael Paulson reports on a recent conference held at Utah Valley University on &#8220;Mormonism in the Public Mind.&#8221; 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