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During a discussion on Rick (President of the 2^nd Republic of Texas) Perry’s possible run for the White House on FOX and Friends this past Sunday morning, Ainsley Earhardt turned the discussion to a pronouncement of what many evangelicals and mainstream Christians believe: Mitt (Flopsy Mopsy) Romney, a Mormon, is “obviously not a Christian.”

Earhardt said that since Romney is “not a Christian” he may not have a good chance of raising big money among Christians if Rick Perry runs for president.

And so it begins; FOX PAC has fired its first salvo at Flopsy hoping to keep him from winning the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nomination because he’s a Mormon.

When the discussion began tumbling down that particular rabbit hole and host Dave Briggs said he wasn’t sure if Perry could “get in and raise money with Mitt Romney.” Earhardt disagreed. “Well the Christian coalition … I think [Rick Perry] can get a lot of money from that base because [of] Romney obviously not being a Christian … Rick Perry, he’s always on talk shows, on Christian talk shows, he has days of prayer in Texas,” she said.

Many evangelicals “Christians” claim the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is non-Christian, and although a recent Pew poll showed that 58 percent of white evangelicals didn’t see a problem in supporting a Mormon candidate, evangelicals are warning the voters to be careful.

“Let’s face it; Romney simply doesn’t have a consistent worldview and much of what he does believe is contrary to the conservative and Christian worldview,” states an open letter being circulated 14 Jul 11, according to Michigan Messenger. Some far-right uber-conservative religious, including Gary Glenn of the American Family Association’s Michigan chapter, have signed the letter. Yes, this is the same group sponsoring Rick Perry’s Texas Style Day of Prayer in August.

“That (Romney’s faith) might be fine for someone running for city council, but he’s running for the presidency of the most powerful nation in the world. To accept his multiple conversions as authentic and then give him the keys to the White House would be foolish. At this critical time in American history, we need a leader more than ever who has spent a lifetime defending and promoting conservative principles. The last thing we need is someone whose ideology abruptly shifted only after he and his consultants decided to prepare him for his first Presidential campaign,” it adds.

“There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked. What do I believe about Jesus Christ?” Romney said in a speech on December 6, 2007.

“My church’s beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths,” he said, adding, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind.” Each religion, he said, has its own unique doctrines and history. “These are not bases for criticism but rather a test of our tolerance. Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.”

Romney has argued (correctly) that requiring a presidential candidate to describe and explain his church’s distinctive doctrines “would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution.”

During Romney’s failed 2008 run for the GOTP nomination, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said, “Here is the bottom line. As an Evangelical Christian – a Christian who holds to the ‘traditional Christian orthodoxy’ of the Church – I do not believe that Mormonism leads to salvation.”

Evangelical journalist Warren Cole Smith has said he could not vote for a Mormon because they hold to false teachings. Placing a Mormon in the White House “would serve to normalize the false teachings of Mormonism the world over,” he said in a post on Patheos.com last month.

“As an evangelical Christian who believes that Mormonism is a false religion, I think it only makes sense that I would not want to be a part of any effort – either intentional or not – that would spread a false religion,” Smith said.

So this is what I’ve been saying all along; the far right uber-conservative so-called Christians of the GOTP are not going to vote for a Mormon. If – and it’s a big if – Romney can win the GOTP nomination, will the evangelical voters support him? Probably not because they’re not going to risk their “salvation” by voting for a “non-believer”, and conservatives need to understand this, they are not going to support his nomination, or his election; they’d rather see that “socialist Muslim” in the White House than a Mormon.