Andrew Sullivan is right to point out that there is a tremendous double standard at play in the fact that President Obama’s relationship to Jeremiah Wright has been made the subject of a long-lasting national controversy while Governor Romney’s relationship to racist statements by past LDS leaders has been quietly accepted.
(In fact, it may be the case that during 2012 general presidential campaign, Obama has been the object of more religion-related public antagonism and mischaracterization than Romney—including the persistence of charges that Obama is Muslim, not a Christian, as he has professed.)
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