Such religious bigotry and ignorance would indeed be an obstacle for an LDS candidate. It is interesting to note, that the Evangelical/Protestant Right religio-political movement has embraced Roman Catholics at all levels now, from the Pope on down to the local priests and laymembers to join them in the pushing forward the issues of abortion, prayer in schools, creation vs evolutuon, etc, etc. This type of unity is a very recent trend. As was stated earlier in another post, it was not until the 1960's that JFK was elected as our first Roman Catholic President.
