The Rove GOP has encouraged explicitly religious criteria for policies and candidates.  Why would this strategy not backfire against a non-evangelical Christian? ~Andrew Sullivan

Yeah, all of this prejudice against Sam Brownback is outra…oh, wait, he’s talking about Romney, who isn’t a Christian.  He is a Mormon.  Obviously.  That strikes me as being slightly relevant to the question at hand, since at least that claim about Mormonism’s non-Christian nature is actually easy to substantiate.  The argument Romneyites and those opposed to anti-Mormonism need to make is that it is somehow actually wrong for Christians to refuse to vote for non-Christians on primarily religious grounds.  They can’t make such an argument without slinging the charge of bigotry, which is a charge that is for the most part ridiculous and unfounded, and so they either don’t talk about it or they just whine about how unfair it is.