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Mitt Romney angered evangelicals during his first White House run in 2008 by blurring the theological lines between their faith and his Mormonism<\/a>. Lurching in the other direction, he irked them again by scarcely mentioning religion at all during this year\u2019s GOP primaries.<\/p>\n

But Romney has finally found some middle ground, evangelical leaders say, by sidelining theology and stressing the \u201cJudeo-Christian values\u201d that he shares with social conservatives.
\u201cHe\u2019s made it very clear not to gloss over the theological differences that his faith has with evangelicals,\u201d said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council in Washington. \u201cAs long as he talks about the shared values of our religious traditions, I think he\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romney did exactly that during a Sept. 9 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a> interview, saying that religion inspired him to run for president \u2014 without mentioning the word \u201cMormon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Judeo-Christian ethics that I was brought up with \u2014 the sense of obligation to one\u2019s fellow man, an absolute conviction that we are all sons and daughters of the same God and therefore in a human family \u2014 is one of the reasons I am doing what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Conservative Christian leaders are taking the same approach, urging evangelicals to focus on Romney\u2019s policies and principles, not the particulars of his faith.<\/p>\n

The GOP platform, including opposition to abortion and gay marriage, fits \u201csquarely within the Judeo-Christian tradition,\u201d more than two dozen Christian notables wrote in a Sept. 7 public letter congratulating Romney<\/a>\u00a0on the document. The signers included activist Ralph Reed, evangelist Franklin Graham and Focus on the Family President Jim Daly.
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