when mitt and i met and fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our life together. i was an episcopalian. he was a mormon. mitt and i also go to different churches but in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example. i ve been watching that example. our faiths come together in the same moral creed. mormonism is no longer off limits for team romney. his wife mentioned it by name on tuesday, and romney s faith came up in several speeches last night. mike huckabee, a baptist minister who in the 2008 primary defeated romney in iowa didn t exactly offer support for romney s faith but said it wouldn t affect his vote. i care far less as to where mitt romney takes his family to church than i do about where he takes this country. huckabee also used a speech to tear town the president s views on social and religious
[cheers and applause] he raised a family and he became mayor of our town. my dad would often remind my brothers and me how fortunate we were to grow up in a place like america. he wanted us to have every opportunity that came with life in this country, so he pushed us to be our best and give our all. inside the houses that lined the streets of our town there were a lot of good fathers teaching their sons and daughters those same values. i didn t know it at the time, but one of those dads was my future father-in-law george romney. [applause] mitt s dad never graduated from college. instead he became a carpenter. he worked hard, he became the head of a car company, then the governor of michigan. when mitt and i met and fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our life together. i was episcopalian, he was a mormon.
mormons do consider themselves christians. i have been down to liberty a million times and it is one of the centers and i went back to when jerry falwell was getting the place started. that remains what always was. at core and a fundamentalist evangelical institution. they mean the old and the new testament and not the book of mormon. i thought mitt romney did a fine job of praising christianity and in the one phrase, distance himself as he had to do because they don t consider him one of them. i think it is an interesting phrase and he does cover it that way, but i would say if a catholic or episcopalian or anyone who was not of the same christian and baptist style of christianity and sex of
mormons do consider themselves christians. i have been down to liberty a million times and it is one of the centers and i went back to when jerry falwell was getting the place started. that remains what always was. at core and a fundamentalist e evangelical institution. they mean the old and the new testament and not the book of mormon. i thought mitt romney did a fine job of praising christianity and in the one phrase, distance himself as he had to do because they don t consider him one of them. i think it is an interesting phrase and he does cover it that way, but i would say if a catholic or episcopalian or anyone who was not of the same christian and baptist style of christianity and sex of
because of these people he spoke to at liberty, because of the evangelical base, he s just not willing to go into it on the campaign trail very much. jimmy, does he need to even campaign for the evangelical vote at this point in the public research institute poll shows he s getting 79%, obama s getting 19%. yeah, he does. we talked about this in the primaries back late last, what is this may it, back in november we talked about this. he needs to come out of the closet on his religion. hate to draw the parallel. why would you not embrace your own religion? it shows that you re a religious person. i don t think that s bade thing when you re courting people that believe in a god that you believe in. i m an episcopalian, you re a baptist, you re a mormon. i don t know what you are. nobody knows what i am. it doesn t matter because at the end of the day, people of faith agree with you that you re