Have you ever played the swimming pool game Marco Polo? Played it all the time growing up in Las Vegas where pools were a plenty. If you need a refresher on how the game is played watch this short, highly professional video explaining the “water” rules. It was named after a 13th Century explorer.
In the last 24 hours (and in the days to come) pundits and journalists have been saying “Marco.” But no one is responding “Polo.” Instead, people are responding “Mormon.” Words out that Senator Marco Rubio from Florida was baptized a Mormon when 8 years old. Nicholas G. Hahn’s article Marco the Mormon took me back to the swimming pool game. I can’t get–Marco! Mormon!–out of my head. Perhaps there will be a new ground version of the game when the political wannabe religious news subsides.
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