Evangelicals In Defense of Romney: A Reader

In an earlier post, our editor Andre E. Johnson, suggested that conservative evangelicals are engaging in theological cognitive dissonance as they struggle to support “Mormon” Mitt Romney over “Christian” Barack Obama. Evangelicals declare that they could not vote for someone who does not share their faith tradition, yet they are lining up behind the Romney candidacy. We thought it would interest our readers to see how some conservative evangelicals handle this theological dissonance and the rhetorical strategies many use to support someone who they believe is antithetical to their faith tradition.

1. Why This Conservative Evangelical Counter-Cult Expert Will Vote for Romney

2. How Can I Vote for a Mormon?

3. If You’re An Evangelical Who Doesn’t Like Mormons, You Should Still Be Outraged At This

4. Why Evangelicals Can Support Mitt Romney

5. A Christian Skeptical of Romney Reviews “Why Evangelicals Should Support Romney – And Feel Good About It!”

6. Why Romney can, and should, win evangelical vote

7. Ralph Reed: Conservatives Excited About Mitt Romney Because He Flip-Flopped On Abortion

8. Has Romney won over evangelicals?

9. Prominent African-American Southern Baptist Condemns Mormonism as Racist

10. Evangelicals and Romney: Politics Trumps Theology?

11. Evangelicals for Mitt (website)

12. When Baptists Voted for a Heretic

13. Can Romney ace the evangelical Christian base?

14. Romney, Republican evangelicals and the Mormon thing

15. Romney Can Win Even By Talking About His Faith

16. Romney’s “Friends:” I’m Mormon, Not Christian; Extreme Wealth Inequality is Good

17. Religious Conservative, Gary Bauer, Calls for All Pro-Lifers to Embrace Pro-Lifer Romney

18. A poll: Romney, Republican evangelicals and the Mormon thing.

19. Romney Campaign Building Relationships With Evangelical Leaders

20. This evangelical says Mormonism isn’t a cult

21. Mitt Romney and Evangelical Voters: An Arranged Marriage

22. What Happened to Romney’s “Evangelical Problem”?

23. Romney’s Problem

24. Will ‘Teavangelicals’ turn the Obama/Romney tide?

25. Mitt Romney’s Current Focus: The Conservative Evangelical Base

26. Why Mitt Romney Sits Uneasy On A Conservative Saddle

27. Some ‘teavangelicals’ won’t vote for Romney because he’s Mormon

28. Mitt Romney’s Disappearing “Evangelical Problem”

29. Fear Factor: The Conservative Christian Crusade Against Mormonism

30. Romney Romances Religious Right

31. “For the Sake of the Gospel” Group Willing to Have “Safe Politics” with Mitt Romney.

32. The Weakness of Romney’s Right

33. Poll: Romney may see an evangelical ‘enthusiasm gap’