Psalm,
I don’t think it’s as sinister as all that. He hasn’t a single principle that he holds on to. All he does was to please the polls and cement his legacy. It’s what he thought would make him most popular and get elected.
He’s really a one-trick pony: an ego-driven political huckster. Once you approach him from that point of view, it all makes sense.
Perhaps. When Beck was touting how Bishop Willard actually was a moral man, because while he publicly promoted anti-life, anti-family policy in Massachusetts he privately discouraged such deviant practices within Mormon circles, I had to wonder: Why? Why promote and even subsidize sterility in the greater population, while discouraging that path of oblivion in one’s own small group?
I still question the motives for that dichotomy, but otherwise agree with your post.