From Robert:
All of the information about the Romney family history came out in the
1962 campaign for Governor of Michigan. Democratic Governor John
Swainson was running for reelection against American Motors President
George Romney, Mitt's father.
George Romney won because it turned out that Swainson had previously
been a member of the Reorganized LDS Church. And in 1962 racism was
still king in Michigan. And Governor Swainson came on too strong for
equal rights for all Americans.
But the Romney family dirty laundry was well publicized. George Romney
admitted he was born in a polygamous colony in Mexico. But the most
important Romney ancestor was the Mormon Prophet Parley Pratt. Like
all the other early Mormon prophets, Pratt held that the capital of
the USA must be moved from Washington DC to Independence Missouri, the
site of the original Garden of Eden in Mormon mythology. And from
Independence Missouri, the Mormon Church will then rule the United
States and then the world.
Mitt Romney refuses to disavow Parley Pratt. In fact he cannot do so
because all prophecies Pratt received are considered official Mormon
Doctrine. So he does the pooh-pooh act instead. Nobody knows what Mitt
Romney really believes about anything except that his dedication to
the Mormon religion seems not to be open to question.
Best regards, Robert
Hi Team! *? 2 ALL:
ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE -
(above): Joseph Smith and wives
Romney's father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, was born
in Chihuahua, Mexico,
in 1907 to American citizens living in a Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints colony.
The Romney family had left the U.S. to avoid being prosecuted for
polygamy after laws against
the practice were enforced, and returned to the U.S. after the
Mexican Revolution broke out.
Some family members stayed in Mexico and Mitt Romney has about 40
relatives still living
south of the border. - Huffington Post
Toby Harnden reports:
A governor who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and was given a prominent
speaking role at the Democratic National Convention has said that Mitt
Romney could struggle in the November election because women 'are not
great fans of polygamy'.
Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana, who was viewed as a possible
vice-presidential running mate for Obama four years ago, raised
Romney's Mormon faith by repeatedly stating that his father was 'born
into a polygamy commune in Mexico'.
(above): Schweitzer, Romney
The comments were quickly disavowed by an Obama spokeswoman but have
raised concerns among Republicans that the Obama campaign and its
allies will use Romney's Mormon faith as a means of attacking his
character.
...(Schweitzer) said, '86 per cent [of women are] not great fans of
polygamy'. He added: 'I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is
a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father
was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico'".
Romney denies family came from Mexican polygamist commune - what are
your comments?
Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
Voice of the People
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'Romney's father was born into a polygamy commune in Mexico':
Montana's Democrat governor launches personal attack on Obama's
election rival
By Toby Harnden
Daily Mail
PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:47 EST, 20 April 2012
...During his 2008 speech at the Democratic convention in Denver,
Schweitzer trumpeted his Cathoilc faith, saying: 'Like Senator Obama,
my family has roots in the Great Plains.
'My grandparents were immigrants who came to Montana with nothing more
than the clothes on their back, high hopes and faith in God.'
Romney's father George W. Romney, who went on to become head of the
American Motor Company and governor of Michigan, was born in 1907 in a
settlement in Mexico that had been founded in the 1880s by Mormons
fleeing American anti-polygamy laws.
The last polygamist in Romney's direct ancestry was his
great-grandfather Miles Park Romney, who had three wives. Romney's
paternal grandfather Gaskell was monogamous and the Mormon Church
outlawed polygamy in 1890.
Five years ago, Romney, who has been married to his wife Ann for 42
years, said: 'I have a great-great-grandfather. They were trying to
build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional
as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more
awful than polygamy.' Ann, whose father was a Welsh atheist, converted
to Mormonism before she married Mitt.
A senior Romney adviser said he expected Democrats to use the
presumptive Republican nominee's faith against him. 'They'll take
advantage of whatever they can.
'Even if they never have to use the word Mormon, if there's a chance
it gives people a little bit of a doubt or erodes part of the
Republican base, they'll be happy to take it. But I don't think
they'll be caught with their hands in the cookie jar talking about
Mormonism.'
Already, there are indications that the Obama campaign is prepared to
go after Romney's religion in subtle ways. His advisers declared
Mormonism 'off limits' after they were panned for portraying Romney as
'weird'. But in recent days the word 'secretive' has been used about
him repeatedly - a charge often laid at the door of the Mormon Church.
Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist
Convention and a prominent evangelical figure who has met Romney
privately said: 'As far as I'm concerned, Mormonism isn't a Christian
faith. It's a different religion. But I and most evangelicals wouldn't
have a problem voting for a Mormon against Barack Obama.'
He said that he believed personal faith should not be part of the
election and doubted the Obama campaign would 'comment on Romney's
religion frontally' but expected Obama's media allies to do so
eagerly.
'They're going to try to highlight all the more the exotic beliefs of
Mormons and hope to scare off enough independents to help Romney win.'
Predicting 'the ugliest campaign in my lifetime, and I was born in
1946', he said the press would attempt to get swing voters to ask
themselves: 'He believes in that? Wow, do I really want a president
who believes something like that?'
In the US media, jibes about Mormon polygamy and 'magic underwear'
(observant Mormons like Romney wear what are known as temple
undergarments beneath their cloths) are commonplace and acceptable
whereas that mocking Jews or Muslims is considered beyond the pale.
Romney is a former Mormon bishop who hails from one of the most
prominent families in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Mormons believes that early Christian leaders fell away from God's
truth and that it took the discovery of the Book of Mormon by Joseph
Smith, the self-proclaimed prophet who founded the church, to
'restore' true Christianity.
Smith is said to have discovered the sacred text in 1823. It had been
engraved on golden plates buried in a hill near his home in New York
that he had found after being guided there by an angle called Moroni.
Mormons do not smoke tobacco, swear or drink coffee, tea or alcohol.
They conduct baptisms of the dead, usually of their ancestors but
also, most controversially, Holocaust victims (a practice the church
now outlaws).
They believe that Jesus appeared to the Americas after the
resurrection and that there are three heavens. Blacks were not allowed
to be ordained into the Mormon Church until 1978.
Romney and each of his five sons served for two years as Mormon
missionaries. In Romney's case, he was sent to France in the late
1960s. Romney later joked: 'It's quite an experience to go to Bordeaux
and say, 'Give up your wine! I've got a great religion for you!''
A number of the tenets of Mormonism are regarded as bizarre by many
Americans and one of the biggest challenges Romney faced in the
primaries was that many evangelicals regarded Mormons as members of a
non-Christian cult.
Romney lost primaries in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana - the bible belt of the Deep South - though all these
states are virtually certain to back him in the general election.
Aware of the widespread suspicion of his religion, Romney has shied
away from talking about it. He gave a speech in College Station, Texas
in December 2007, billed as the equivalent to John F. Kennedy's 1960
address to allay fear about his Catholicism, in which he insisted that
'no authorities of my church' would 'ever exert influence on
presidential decisions'. But even then he uttered the word Mormon only
once.
During the Republican primary campaign, his advisers avoided almost
any mention of his faith. In January, a senior campaign official said
that he believed there was an anti-Mormon smear campaign afoot in
South Carolina but he wanted no public mention of it for fear of
aggravating the issue.
The downside of this approach was that Romney's deep faith, the
observant life he has led and the family he has built are central to
understanding him. By barely referring to Mormonism - his core - it
was easy to believe he had no core.
Alex Castellanos, a veteran Republican strategist who was a top
adviser to Romney in 2008, said that Romney's faith could be turned
into an advantage.
'He's over the tough part on the Mormon issue. He cleared that hurdle
in the primaries.' Talking about his faith 'helps people to understand
that there's a real core to Mitt Romney, that he believes there's a
right and there's a wrong and he's lived his life the right way'.
He added: 'The real window into Mitt Romney's heart is Ann Romney. The
window into his soul may be his faith. Seeing who he is as a human
being tells you how he's lived his life.'
The current Romney adviser agreed, saying the campaign could to 'take
this perceived weakness and turn it into a strength' by emphasising
the tens of millions of dollars he has donated to his church (all
Mormons are required to tithe 10 percent of their income) and his
pastoral care of church members.
'We don't need to talk about Mormonism, we don't need to do a faith
speech. But we can talk about it in terms of who you are, about
family, about good works.'
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