No drinking at White House dinners, for one thing...

The New York Times has a huge op-ed section on the issue of electing a Mormon as president:

With two Mormon candidates in the 2012 Republican presidential primary race, will it be easier or harder for one of them to win the nomination? When Mitt Romney ran in the GOP presidential primaries in 2008, his religion caused discomfort among some conservative voters, who objected to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The controversy lead him to give a speech in December of 2007, in which he asserted his Christian convictions and played down his Mormon beliefs.
In the 2012 race, he has been joined by a fellow Mormon, Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah and ambassador to China, who has dismissed his religious beliefs in the past. (“I can’t say I’m overly religious,” he told Fortune magazine last year.)
Is it a greater risk for Mormon politicians to play down their religion, or will this alienate the party faithful more than the candidates' embrace of their faith? Or do Republican voters care more about their candidates' policies this time around than their religion?

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