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29975
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English
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Truth and Consequences : Mitt Romney, Proposition 8, and Public Reason
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Alabama Law Review
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61
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Tuscaloosa, AL
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University of Alabama School of Law
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337
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My purpose in this Essay is to examine the deployment of religious truth-claims in electoral politics, through the lenses of Gov. Romney's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination and the LDS church's participation in the successful Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California. I will argue that in contemporary electoral politics, attacks on the truth of a religion make little sense in light of the pluralism and postmodernism that now characterize the contemporary United States, but are a likely consequence when the religion itself introduces such truth-claims into electoral politics.