A conservative Christian friend of mine posted this today:
I get very uncomfortable when I see Christians go to a Glenn Beck rally where Beck is invoking God. Whatever we have in common with him politically, Mormons are decidedly outside of Christianity.
I honestly believe that most of Beck's fans don't know about his Mormonism.
Steve Benen pulled a similar observation from Christian Newswire:
Glenn Beck promotes a false gospel. However, many of his political ideas can help America.
Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Mormonism is not a Christian denomination but a cult of Christianity.
Of course, both my friend and the Christian Newswire are wrong about the politics and the "Judeo-Christian values" thing (Natural Law was the major foundation for the Constitution), but the religious pegging of Beck falls in line with the Christian view of the LDS.
So when Glenn Beck talks about President Obama's notion of Christian theology being a "perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ," I can only respond to Beck by asking, "When you said that on Fox News Sunday, were you wearing your magic underpants?"
Adding... By way of clarification, and prompted by a reader who happens to be Mormon, I want to underscore that my "magic underpants" joke above was more of a tweak of the Christian perception of Mormonism as a bizarre cult, and not necessarily my own views. In other words, I find it strange when accusations of religious "perversion" are lobbed around between different sects of Christianity (or whatever religious groups) as though one is more even-keeled than the other. Anyway, it always gets a little dodgy when a nonbeliever sticks his head into a fight between two religions, which is one of the reasons why I don't write about it much.