The idea that polyester-attired preachers will be winding hayseed congregants into a fit of anti-Mormon hatred because Mormons believe Jesus Christ has a wife is a myth, although it will continue to be pushed.
Somewhere, in a trailer in the Panhandle, a Bubba preacher is mulling over whether he should burn a Koran or call Mitt Romney an agent of Satan. Over at MSNBC, Ed Schultz is trashing Mormonism, and by extension, Mitt Romney. So are Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Matthews. In other news, evangelicals in South Carolina and Florida are ready to easily boost Romney to wins in the South Carolina and Florida primaries. Tales of evangelical hostility to a Mormon presidential candidate are way too hyped. The group that is most likely to oppose Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon are liberals.
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