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Mitt Romney
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"Since his inevitability as a candidate this spring, you've seen evangelical leaders who took pleasure in calling Mormonism a cult come to his side. Things are changing."
Joanna Brooks
Mormon writer at Religion Dispatches, on how evangelicals have backed off criticism of Mormonism in light of Mitt Romney's political success (RNS)
"You can already see the change in thinking among many evangelicals who see Mitt Romney more as the Republican candidate for president and less as a Mormon."
Leith Anderson
President of the National Association of Evangelicals (RNS)
"While I am not prepared to reclassify Mormonism as possessing undeniably Christian theology, I do accept many of my Mormon friends as genuine followers of the Jesus whom I worship as the divine Savior."
Richard Mouw
President of the evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary (RNS)
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"I think it is more helpful to call Mormons another religion, distinct from biblical or historic Christianity, as just about everyone from Catholics to Methodists to Baptists have clearly stated. It's a different religion that uses the same words to describe very different things."
Ed Stetzer
President of LifeWay Research (RNS)
"Churches are wary of becoming involved in a very partisan way, or campaigning on issues that might be controversial, because their mission is to reach their whole communities."
Galen Carey
The National Association of Evangelicals' vice president for government relations, on polls that say a growing number of Americans do not want to hear politics from the pulpit (RNS)
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