It was only a few seconds, but at Tuesday night’s debate, Republican presidential hopeful (and Mormon) Mitt Romney gave some of his most extensive religious comments yet of the 2012 presidential campaign, saying, “That idea that we should choose people based on their religion is the one that I find to be most troubling.”

After Gov. Rick Perry said that he did not agree with comments by his fellow Texan, pastor Robert Jeffress, that Mormonism is a cult, Romney responded with a case for a secular approach to the nation’s highest office:

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