Mitt Romney meets an anti-Mormon heckler in Florida — and responds in such a way that does not make a candidate YouTube fodder:

…But his warm welcome at the massive, heavily Republican retirement community was marred when one man attacked him for being a Mormon. “You sir, you are a pretender. You do not know the Lord, you are a Mormon,” the man shouted, drawing boos. Romney responded calmly. “Let me offer just a thought,” he said. “One of the great things about this great land is we have people of different faiths and different persuasion, but we need to have a person of faith to lead this country.” Romney, 59, drew a standing ovation for the poised reaction to the attack. But the incident highlighted a potential obstacle to his efforts to win over social conservatives in the party…

UPDATE: Here’s the video.