The Priest, Bishop, and Stake President, Mitt Romney, is a deeply religious and devoted Mormon and Mormon teacher.
Romney’s family immigrated to America in the early 1840s to serve the cults founder. Mitt’s own father was born in Mexico because the Romneys had migrated to Mexico to stay devoted to pure Mormonism and Mitt had three grandmothers (polygamy).
Mitt is a strong force in Mormonism and is among the secretive, most devout and devoted 15% elite of Mormonism.
Bishop Romney is the “ Book of Mormon thumping religious fanatic” that you say you “would much prefer”. A President Mitt will even need special devout Mormon secret service who share that 15% membership of the most holy, with him, so that they can escort him into the privileged, and secret, inner workings of the religion which rigidly forbids access to about 85% of the less devoted and committed Mormon ranks.
Only 15%???
But...
but...
What about that "Families are Forever" thing that MORMONism stresses???
Three grandmothers!
LOL
That’s gonna be the end of his run when that gets out.
FUMR and your 3 Grandmothers!!!!
Respectfully, you're a generation off. Two of Mitt Romney's great-great grandfathers (Miles Park Romney and Helaman Pratt) practiced polygamy, but his grandfathers weren't polygamists.
It's interesting that Helaman Pratt claims to have become a polygamist because LDS prophet Brigham Young told him to:
“On April 20, 1874, Helaman, on the advice of Brigham Young, married Dora Johanna Dorothy Wilcken [Anna Johanna Doratha Wilcken] as his second wife.”
Mary Pratt Parrish, “Helaman Pratt,” in Hatch and Hardy, Stalwarts South of the Border, 543-52. Cited by award-winning LDS historian Todd Compton in his online work on Romney's polygamous heritage.
Romney's family left Deseret - the theocracy Brigham Young attempted to establish in the Utah Territory (which led to the Utah Wars with the U.S. Army), and went to Mexico to help establish a LDS polygamist colony. Romney's grandfather, Gaskill, brought the Romney family back to the U.S. in 1912 due to the violence of the Mexico Revolution.