Orson Scott Card- Is Mitt Romney Serious?

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Orson Scott Card read Hugh Hewitt’s A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney and responds with his own excellent primer on why it’s ridiculous to not consider a candidate who happens to be Mormon. From looking at the practical benefits of the Mormon faith to dismissing unnecessary concerns of the political influence of the Church, it’s a great read from a believer’s perspective for everyone.

But as a Mormon, I found his take on the difference between the Church leadership vs. its bureaucracy and how they treat LDS celebrities very interesting:

I’m a Mormon public figure, of sorts, and I know a few others. And I’m aware of exactly how the Church hierarchy deals with public figures.

A writer like me is a constant target of meddling middle-level bureaucrats who seem to think that their job in life is to afflict me for anything I write that wouldn’t be appropriate to put in a Sunday school lesson. But in all the years of low-level harassment, the actual Church authorities, in Salt Lake and locally, have always stood by my right to do my job as I see fit.

Government figures are more like sports figures in the way they get treated: Mid-level Mormons suck up to them mercilessly. But, once again, the higher-level authorities leave them alone to do their jobs.