Romney’s Mormon faith is no reason not to vote for him for president affirmed Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Face the Nation Sunday. Asked about Romney’s Mormonism, Dolan recalled speaking a few months back at the Anti-Defamation League where he called on Jews and Catholics alike to fight anti-Mormonism if it flares up during the campaign.
“I said, ‘Listen everybody. We Catholics and we Jews have felt this thing on the other side. And now, one of the ways we can cooperate is to see that religious prejudice, religious bigotry doesn’t enter the campaign.’ I said, ‘there may be reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney as president of the United States, that he’s a Mormon cannot be one of them.'”
The Jews at the gathering gave this speech a standing ovation, Dolan recalled. He added, “I don’t think Catholics would have any problem voting for a Mormon at all.”
