"There are many Christians who feel anxiety about whether or not they should support a Mormon"

As much as I hate the thought of casting my vote for Mr. Romney, I see little alternative. To cast a “protest vote” for an un-electable 3rd party candidate, regardless of how strong a believer he (or she) may be, would be little better than staying home and casting no vote at all. We simply cannot allow the present incumbent to be re-elected if at all possible.

“As much as I hate the thought of casting my vote for Mr. Romney, I see little alternative.”

Right in the palms of their hand. Where the idea that a person can simply choose not participate in our enlightenment secular humanist pagan exercise called democracy in general, or at least defer such participation until there are actually desirable choices, seems to be so unsavory.

This position ignores the fact that in many times and places Christians made the decision not to get involved in public life, and suffered severe persecution for it. (The early church was charged with being insufficiently patriotic by the Roman Empire for example.)

Also, why do we keep going along with the idea that the next election is the most important election in history, and that our nation, our future, and our way of life depends on it?

Yes, unemployment is 8.1%. In 1983, it was 9.6%!

Yes, there is the war on terror going on. Compare that to the Cold War, like the Bay of Pigs where Kennedy strongly considered using nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union, who would of course have responded in kind. And the 70s were great. High unemployment, high interest rates, high inflation, fuel shortages, the Soviets gaining influence all over the world, terrorism (foreign and domestic), urban riots and other civil unrest, Watergate and the Viet Nam War. So what is it that makes NOW so much worse than then? Or the Great Depression?

Also, exactly what would Romney actually do different from Obama? No one knows, in large part because he won’t tell us. Here’s the deal: Obama continued a lot of Bush’s policies. A whole lot. It is just that the Obama supporters like Bush policies a lot better with Obama in charge than they did with Bush. And Bush? Continued a lot of Clinton policies. It is just that Republicans and conservatives liked Clinton’s policies a lot better under Bush than they did under Clinton. So, when Romney does many of the same things that Obama did, the people who voted for Romney will claim that Romney is saving the country by doing a better job of implementing Obama’s agenda than Obama did. Or something. Is that how it works? Because that is certainly how it seems to.

The facts: no matter who wins, some form of ObamaCare (which was Romneycare before it was Obamacare, and was George W. Bush’s MediCare Part D before it was Romneycare …) will be enacted. No matter who wins, the government will pressure Israel to give land to the Palestinians, just as George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush did. (George W. Bush called the failure to secure a Palestinian state one of the greatest failures of his administration.) No matter who wins, this country will continue to appease Muslims and other hostile regimes, just as Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush did. No matter who wins, judges that support abortion and gay marriage will still be placed on the federal bench. No matter who wins, the Federal Reserve will still be in control of our monetary policy, and a great deal of our economic, political, and military decisions will be dictated by the United Nations, the IMF, the WTO, and other organizations that just happened to be headquartered in the United States (making the idea that we are actually a sovereign nation nothing more than a myth) and our Supreme Court, which is now comprised entirely of Catholics and Jews, will continue to make rulings designed to bring us in line with “international law”, as they have been for some time. And it is safe to predict that our next president will take us to another war for the purposes of “spreading democracy”, just as Obama (Libya), Bush (Iraq, Afghanistan), Clinton (Kosovo) and Bush (Somalia) did. And the next president will use the “Patriot Act”, unmanned intelligence and assassination drones, and other devices just as vigorously as Bush and Obama did, if not more so. The only real difference will be whether you choose to defend this stuff or not because you voted for the guy who is doing it.

Which again, is exactly where they want you.