Mitt Romney Second Amendment

In GOP race and on Broadway, Mormons taking center stage

Mitt Romney has said he plans to see “The Book of Mormon,” the hilarious Broadway musical from the creators of “South Park” and “Avenue Q.” And there’s a moment in the show when you can practically imagine him onstage.

It comes in the second act, when a group of Ugandan converts puts on a pageant for visiting Mormon leaders: a bawdy, profane and very incorrect retelling of the story of the Mormon faith. (It involves appearances from certain “Star Wars” characters, plus a song-and-dance depiction of how dysentery happens.) As the Mormon leaders watch in shock and disbelief, it’s hard not to notice that they all have very Mitt-like hair.

Which makes one wonder what Romney himself would think of the show. In public, he’s been good-humored. In private, would he fume?

Or would he realize that “The Book of Mormon,” blasphemy and all, is precisely the kind of public relations tool that Mormon candidates could use?

Mormonism looms over Romney’s presidential prospects, just as it did in 2008, except that instead of one major Mormon candidate, now there are two.

For both Romney and Jon Huntsman, the path to the presidency is the same: appease evangelical Christians to win the GOP nomination, then assuage social liberals in a general election. (In a recent Gallup poll, notes Southern Methodist University political scientist Matthew Wilson, more Democrats than Republicans said they’d never vote for a Mormon.)

So far, Romney and Huntsman have taken very different approaches. In his speech on faith in 2008, Romney defended his devoutness and argued that Mormons are no different from other Christians.Huntsman has downplayed his Mormonism, saying several confessions play a role in his life.

This is a message the voters may or may not buy, since the fourth national religion was more important to the end. The church has played a major role in supporting Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in California. It was to have, as many have noted, a moment of pop culture.

And when it comes to representations of life Mormon, "The Book of Mormon" is in some ways, the most accurate. HBO’s “Big Love” and TLC’s “Sister Wives” focus on polygamy, which the church has disavowed for a century. In “The Book of Mormon,” the subject doesn’t come up. Robert Lopez, who co-wrote the show, told me that there once was one polygamy joke. It didn’t get a laugh, so it was cut.

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