Glenn Beck, Mormons, and the Religious Right
Newsweek - Conventional wisdom in the last election cycle held that Mitt Romney could never win the hearts of America’s conservative evangelicals—the Republican base—because he’s Mormon, and evangelicals don’t consider Mormons to be properly Christian. “I don’t believe conservative Christians will vote for a Mormon, but that remains to be seen,” James Dobson, then chairman of Focus on the Family, told radio host Laura Ingraham in the run-up to the 2008 contest. But just two years later, the person who has most loudly, most passionately, and, some would say, most convincingly gathered voters around a faith-and-values message is media personality Glenn Beck—who happens...
