• Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS).

• Mitt Romney is the fifth Mormon to try for presidency.

• Romney studied at a church sponsored University in Utah,
Birmingham Young University.
  
• When he was nineteen years old Romney worked for two and
half years in France as a Mormon missionary and also assisted in
managing the affairs of the mission. 

• Romney once stated that religion was quintessential to
freedom without pointing to any particular faith. 

• In his own words he said "Freedom requires religion,
just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of
the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and
commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish
alone."

• Comparing his stance to that of John F. Kennedy's famous
address in 1960, Mitt Romney said 'Like him, I am an American
running for president. I do not define my candidacy by my
religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor
should he be rejected because he believes in my Mormon faith and
I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers --
I will be true to them and to my beliefs,"

• In his Faith in America speech on December 16th 2007,
Mitt Romney said "No candidate should become the spokesman for
his faith. For if he becomes president he will need the prayers
of the people of all faiths."
		

• Barack Obama is a member of United Church of Christ.

• Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, who was brought up
as a Baptist, were most recently members of the Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago. This Church holds close the black
liberation theology and its importance on authorizing groups
exploited by establishment forces.

• Barack Obama had been a active member in this church for
twenty years.  This is where he was married and his children were
baptized. 

• In 2008, Barack and Michelle Obama resigned their
membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The
resignation followed offensive comments by Rev. Michael Pfleger
and Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

• Daniel Pipes stated that Obama was brought up as a
Muslim because he attended Koran classes in 4th grade at a Muslim
school in Jakarta, Indonesia. CNN stated that even though he did
study in a Muslim school for a couple of years, it was a non
religious public school attended by people of different
religions. 

• Obama states that he was brought up in a non religious
atmosphere. His father was an atheist and his mother was one of
the most spiritually awakened persons that he's ever known.
According to Obama, "Religion for her was just one of the many
ways ? and not necessarily the best way ? that man attempted to
control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our
lives."

• Obama proclaims that he is a Christian in all ways. He
stressed that when he was being sworn into office, he had put his
hands on the family bible and when he is in the United States
senate, he pledges allegiance to the flag of USA.

• Obama's paternal grandfather was a Muslim, and he did
attend a Muslum school in Indonesia. He uses these aspects to
tell us that he will be able to handle foreign policy better and
to bring in a new face to parts of the world where USA is not
well liked.