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I didn’t post my own thoughts about Glenn Beck’s rally in DC, and I’m convinced we need to do everything we can to dissociate our faith from a political party, though not from stating our views on particular issues, but I’m annoyed with his decision to weigh in on Obama’s theology and beliefs when Beck himself, a Mormon, seems to be siding with Christians — and I mean he is siding with orthodox, conservative, evangelical Christians — and seems to be taking their side when he makes those points.

Jason Poling, an evangelical pastor in Pikesville MD, wrote this response to Glenn Beck’s accusation against Obama’s theology …

It is passing strange for Glenn Beck to describe President Obama’s theological views as a “perversion of the gospel” given his conversion to Mormonism. Mormon theology is irreconcilably at odds with orthodox Christian theology at several crucial points.

Nevertheless, I am quite sure that many Mormons are in fact sincere and devout followers of Jesus despite the fact that they drink their doctrine from a poisoned well. The same may be said of people who adhere to the sort of liberation theology that is really Marxism with a thin veneer of Christianity.