[colorado tanker]

I think you have a misconception about what a Mormon bishop is. He is not an official of the church and is essentially a lay minister. Romney cannot speak for the church. Thus the analogy to a hypothetical renegade pro-choice Catholic bishop doesn't work.

[ansel12]

Priest, Missionary, Bishop, Stake President, personal meetings with the with the holy prophet of the church.

Romney was a powerful religious leader within the church as far as I know, and it was you that brought Catholics in as though Romney was some renegade Bishop that was in rebellion with the higher leadership, although none of us have ever seen the evidence of that battle.

Romney did represent the church in all of those roles.