Mormon, Catholic, same thing?

This week Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a speech at the George Bush Presidential Library in Texas to talk about his Mormon faith. He confronted the suspicions of many. suspicions that his faith would cloud his decisions if he were elected. at one point he said “I will take care to separate the affairs of government from any religion, but I will not separate us from the God who gave us liberty.” President John F. Kennedy faced almost the same problems while he was a candidate. He made a speech on his roman catholic fait. He stated that his faith had not and would not affect his politics. He spoke about his stands against the Vatican whilst in congress. There are many similarities between these two men and there struggles because of religion but one major difference exists. There were 42 million american roman catholics in 1960 but there are only about 6 million american mormons now.