Sounds a lot like what you're doing with Romney's conscience
Not at all. With you, you were inwardly judging the motives of Tricia Erickson.
With me, we can track what Romney has outwardly condemned -- and confirmed -- about Mormonism. He did on one occasion condemn historical Lds polygamy. Other than that, he has confirmed the rest:
"There are some for whom these commitments are not enough. They would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs."