for being a mormon. shortly after producing perry to the crowd of social conservatives texas pastor said they shouldn t select mitt romney because he s mormon, a religion the pastor described as a cult. later cnn political correspondent jim acosta asked the pastor how he responds to voters who insist that romney s religion shouldn t be an issue. here is what he said. the southern baptist convention, which is the largest protestant denomination in the world has officially labeled mormonism as a cult. i think mitt romney is a good moral man. but i think those are us who are born again followers of christ should always prefer a competent christian to a competent non-christian like mitt romney. political activist bill bennett responded to the pastor s comments today. take a listen. i would say to the pastor, you stepped on and obscured the words of perry and santorum and cain and bachmann and everyone else who has spoken here. you did rick perry no good, sir, in what you ha
believes that mormonism is a cult and that mitt romney is not a true christian. so i tell you all that to set up what we re seeing today. mitt romney taking the stage. a lot of people wondering if he would address the controversy. he just took the stage moments before we hit the air here. we re going to start this from the very top and let you hear all of mitt romney s comments and he started by going after the president. let s listen to him now. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. wow, a lot of old friends here. good to be so enthusiastically welcomed. and thank you to jay seculow. aren t we lucky to have a treasurerer like that arguing our causes before the supreme court. and speaking of hitting it out of the park, how about that bill bennet? isn t he something else? now, i ve been coming to this event for six years. and this is the biggest crowd yet. for that, i suppose we should acknowledge president obama. he is, after all, the conservative movement s