Mitt Romney's Grovelling

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom... Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religious endure together, or perish alone."

Or not.

Romney's platitude-laced flattery was supposed to change the minds of evangelical Christians who regard the candidate as unfit to hold office because of his religious beliefs.  I suspect that most will continue to see Romney's Mormonism as a deal breaker.

Question: How does Islam fit into Romney's religion = freedom paradigm?

Comments

[DrSteve]

1. Religion requires freedom: I'm no expert, but would have thought the opposite applies. The US is a pretty free society as these things go, but the seperation of church and state had to be written into the nation's primary documents - why? Because history shows that religion does not like freedom. (I don't see why it should even to be expected to; it's domain is faith.)
Perhaps he meant that religion requires the legal freedom to exist, unlike, say the USSR - but how would that even be relevant?
2. Freedom requires religion: I'm racking my brains to see how this might make sense....No, sorry, nothing yet.
3. Romney must be, shall we say, peeved about 'Big love'.