Salt Lake Trib Asking How Mormons' Prop 8 Push Will Effect Mitt Romney, Other Mormon Candidates

                  by: Autumn Sandeen                 
             Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 13:00:00 PM EST                                                                       

                             
Love or hate California's Proposition 8, one fact-based thing we can take away from the campaign is that the First Presidency (the Prophet and his two counselors) of  the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) told their church membership to "do all [they] can to support the proposed constitutional amendment." There is now precedence for the LDS' prophet to tell its members how to vote on very public, controversial issues. So, if Mitt Romney were to become the Republican Nominee for President in 2012, could the political activism by the Mormon Church hierarchy become be an issue of higher order than the John F. Kennedy/Pope issue of 1960? I tend to think so.
But, that's not how Thomas Burr of the Salt Lake Tribune cast the issue in first few paragraphs of his piece LDS political activism on gay marriage could impact Romney future; Fallout >> Prominent fight could help and hurt White House bid: