Mitt Romney continues to warm evangelical voters to the idea of a Mormon President, as evidenced by his well-received commencement speech Saturday at Liberty University. But the presumptive GOP nominee has yet to robustly address a key issue of shared passion for evangelicals and Mormons alike: the promotion of international religious freedom.
At Liberty Romney touched on domestic religious freedom concerns, as he has several times during the campaign in response to the Obama administration's new birth control insurance mandate. "It strikes me as odd," Romney told Liberty graduates, "that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with."
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