Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan also discussed the New York Times article on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism that I cited in my own post on Monday. Andrew’s web site may found at http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com.

A Mormon reader of Andrew’s took exception to the Times article, saying that Mormons in fact believe that at the Second Coming, Jesus will appear on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and will also appear at the New Jerusalem in America. A further discussion of this issue may be found on a Mormon web site, www.mormonmentality.org.

I mention this because while I merely cited the Times article, I don’t wish to be a party, even indirectly, to misrepresenting anyone’s religious beliefs.

That said, I think the argument I made in my post still stands. If Mormons believe that Jesus will return to earth on the Mount of Olives and in America, and Mitt Romney omits the latter appearance in order to make Mormonism appear more acceptable to orthodox Christians, then he is still pulling an artful dodge.

Why can’t he be as frank about his Mormonism as Hillaire Belloc was about his Catholicism?