Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has launched his exploratory committee. And every story covering this seems to bring up his Mormonism, with the suggestion that Americans may not be ready to elect a Mormon president.

This strikes me as odd. After all, his father also ran for president, back in 1968, and I don't recall his Mormonism being made much of at the time. Has the US grown less religiously tolerant?

I suspect so.

Did anyone make a fuss, at the time, about Dwight Eisenhower being a Jehovah's Witness?

And note that there has never been another Catholic president, after JFK, despite Catholicism being the largest demonination in the US.