In a time when all belief in a transcendent morality is under fierce, leftwing attack, this sort of thing is going to become more and more often:

The Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said Friday he would have no problem voting for a Mormon for U.S. president.

"We rejected an Evangelical [Harriet Meiers] for the Supreme Court and accepted a Catholic [Samuel Alito]," said Haggard, who was in Salt Lake City to address the Religion Newswriters Association's annual convention. "It's a question of competence." Evangelical Christians are more interested "in good government," than in religious affiliation, the founder and senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., said. As the leader of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, which has 45,000 churches across the United States, Haggard's statement is significant because of the ongoing tensions over theology between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and evangelical Christians. To many, Mormons are viewed as non-Christians because of their extra-biblical scriptures, rejection of historic creeds, claims to divine authority and unique rituals.

As the quote indicates, there is plenty for Mormons and Evangelicals to squabble over - and, of course, plenty for Catholics, Evangelicals and Mormons to argue about, and when we throw Judaism in to the mix...well, the dissent between theologies just grows to massive proportions. For many years, these divisions among believers have helped the secular progressives to prevail. They are united against all believers, while all believers were not united against them - well, now differences are being composed and arguments glossed over in the interests of survival.

In the end, after all, a devout Mormon and a devout Jew have more in common with each other than either does with a secular progressive. And we can all get back to arguing matters theological once we have securly re-established the right to free-exercise in this nation.

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