A Southern Baptist media guru is reaffirming his support for Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney and urges evangelicals to consider the person, and not the theology, when deciding their presidential choice.

Mark DeMoss, the founder of evangelical public relations firm The DeMoss Group, made his pick for the GOP nomination public when he accepted a volunteer campaign position for the former Massachusetts governor. DeMoss heralds Romney for his political experience, business acumen and his support for traditional values such as marriage between a man and a woman.

He asserted that these things are more significant than Romney’s Mormon faith.
“I decided that it’s more important for me that a candidate shares my values than it is [if] he or she shared my theology,” said DeMoss, who also supported Romney during his 2008 run. “I don’t have the tiniest bit of doubt that Gov. Romney shares my values on so many important issues.”

DeMoss – whose PR firm represents such influential evangelicals and groups as Franklin Graham, Chuck Colson, and Campus Crusade for Christ – believes Christian voters mistakenly place theology over qualifications when they select a candidate for the presidency. Shared theology, he noted, is a benchmark that many Christians only use inside the church or church ministry.

“I don’t know why we take a test that we don’t apply anywhere else in life, for the most part, and apply it to the one job in America called president of the United States,” he said. “I just don’t agree with that.”

Affirming Christian theology, he noted, does not mean that a leader will not disappoint voters or make a misstep. DeMoss pointed to disgraced pastor Ted Haggard as an example.

“He represented evangelicals as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals,” said DeMoss. But as a result of his sex and drugs scandal, “he let a lot of people down.”

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