Much the same...someone being a fellow LDS likewise does not qualify them for the presidency.

It's not OK to not vote for someone because he's black, but it's more than OK to not vote for someone because she's a woman.

If you vote AGAINST someone because of their race, you are being racist. Likewise, if you vote FOR someone because of their race you are being racist.

There's a lot more to politics and life than the color of the candidate or any other person you are working with's skin.

Race doesn't matter!

I wish both parties could grasp that and quit playing the race card in every election.

GeeBee, on the other hand being LDS does not disqualify someone, as many opponents of Romney seemed to think.

@ Stewart...I'm LDS, and I don't think it disqualifies him either. I just find it telling that the same people who seem to dis others for voting for Obama just because he's black had no problem voting for Mitt based on nothing more than the Mormon/Olympic factor, having no idea the kind of pandering he did to the left in Mass., and the failures his policies were.

Do you REALLY know a lot of people out there who actually say they are not voting for Obama because of his race? I mean really, they told you that's why they can't vote for him? If you do, you need to stay away from that group, they're a bunch of racists and bigots.

I think you just bought some of the Democrat rhetoric that says there are a bunch of baaaad people out there who won't vote for Obama because of his race. I'm sure there's some, but not enough to get worried over.

Likewise... do you really know people who said they voted for Mitt because he's white? I mean really? And not just something you heard from a ranting partisan poster on this website?

Alisa Marie -

You are right: treating someone differently because of their race certainly is racism. Because you have read "To Kill A Mockingbird," your awareness of this issue is greater than what it might have been otherwise.
However, it is worth bearing in mind that every generation has its own despised minority - some group of the population that the rest of the people believe it is okay to treat differently, that it is okay to hate them, that it is okay to place limits on their civil rights. The sad thing is, many people guilty of doing believe that they are doing God's will.
As you consider who the despised minorities might be in your own life in Centerville, you might ask yourself which side of this type of "racist" divide you are on.