Pat Robertson: Romney's faith not an issue

Updated 5:21 p.m. ET

Televangelist Pat Robertson said today Mitt Romney's Mormon faith is becoming less of an issue with voters.

"It looks like the people who were worried about his Mormonism at least that crowd is diminishing somewhat," Robertson said today on the 700 Club. "The question is, if you have two candidates, you don't have Jesus running against someone else. You have Obama running against Romney."

Chris Roslan, a spokesman for the Christian Broadcasting Network, said Robertson's comments are not an endorsement of Romney. The CBN, as a non-profit organization, neither supports nor endorses candidates.

"What he's saying there is that Romney's Mormonism is no longer an issue, so it's a fairly level playing field," Roslan said.

Robertson told the Associated Press last fall that he's gotten out of making personal endorsements.

Romney this weekend made an appeal to evangelical voters with his commencement address at Liberty University. The Lynchburg, Va., school bills itself as the "largest Christian university in the world."

Romney didn't specifically mention his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he told graduates that they share with him the same beliefs and values.

"People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology," Romney said. "Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview."

Robertson's comments were first reported by BuzzFeed.

Note: This post was updated to reflect comments from the Christian Broadcasting Network.