If someone wants to know more about Mormonism or any othe religion, they should ask an authority on the matter. Why put a candidate on the spot to defend their faith? They should defend their specific beliefs and actions, but to hold them accountable to explain or proselite their regligion during a campaign seems to be proper focus.

If you stopped the average atheist, Catholic, Budhist, Protestant, Mormon, or Muslim on the street, could you expect them to do justice to describing something as extensive as their religion in a five minute response? an hour? a day? And if they did try to, they could only cover one aspect of their beliefs, not the totality of their beliefs.

It's too bad some people haven't learned anything from the JFK campaign and how it was ludicrous to have JFK held accountable for the whole of his faith. Those who don't learn from the past....tend to repeat it!

My understanding is Catholics believe in the Pope, mormons believe in a modern Prophet. I call it an non issue. Mormons honor there prophet but do not worship him. They worship Jesus Christ.

No, Mormons do not "Worship" Jesus. They worship God the Father, just like Jesus taught us to. Jesus is part of the Godhead, along with "the Holy Ghost" and all three of which are distinct and separate beings. This Godhead doctrine was held by most Christians before around 150 AD after which inventiveness lead to a new Godhead found in the trinity. Strictly speaking Mormons ARE Christians, and todays Trinity Christians are believing in a new God that was invented (like you invent any philosophy) over time, written down in 325 in Nicene, and finally all decent was killed (literally, just like Muslims do, by the way) with the advent of Augustine in 425. It is like the Democrats making Republican free enterprise an outlawed belief and making it a crime punishable by death if you voted Republican. Funny how politics mixed with religion, other than Mormon religion (see D&C 134, the only religion that has as scripture the freedom of conscience as the central role of governement) leads to loss of freedom of conscience. Go Mitt!