[Brown Deer]

Romney is proud of his forefathers and what they did...

Yes, they fought in the Revolutionary War. That is certainly something to be proud of! but I'm still not voting for him.

[Colofornian]

Yes, they fought in the Revolutionary War. That is certainly something to be proud of! but I'm still not voting for him.

Sorry. Nice try on your overstretch.

If Romney had such an ancestor, they weren't Mormon. They might have been the father of a Mormon, but there no American Mormons til the 1830s. And the Pratt brothers, Orson & Parley, were the first "Mormons" in Romney's ancestry. (They are BOTH Mitt's ancestors because of internal inter-family marriages...it's rare to have two brothers as somebody's direct ancestry)

And if Romney had such an ancestor, that doesn't fit with the quote I gave...where Romney twice references "faith" and once the "faith of his fathers."

The "faith" of any Romney ancestors (in pre-Mormon times) are "officially" deemed as "apostate." That would hardly be a matter of "pride" since Romney was discussing "faith" -- not uniform-wearing in a war.

How do we know Mormon diss all pre-1820s "Christian" (& other) faiths? See chart below:

Charting Mormon Foundational Intolerance: Smithesque Slander of the Christian Church

MEMO: ‘Wake-up call’ to allies of Mormon founder Joseph Smith and those operating as current disciples of Smith: Those who 'preach' against intolerance need to take note of Mormonism's intolerant roots

Title: A Primer of How Lds founder Joseph Smith Launched His Campaign of Open Bigotry vs. Worldwide Christianity, Engaging in Scorched-Earth Religious Politics

Mitt Romney, Dec, 2007, speaking @ the George Bush Presidential Library: "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."

Snapshot of Joseph Smith’s Slanderous Invectives vs. Christian Sects	Mormon Source [Note: Most of these are Mormon ‘scriptures'. In fact, First three rows below are Lds 'scripture' & therefore cannot be rug-swept any more than a Jew might try to take three commandments off of the very tablets of stone Moses brought down from the mountain]
“...which of all the sects was right… must join NONE of them, for they were ALL WRONG… those professors were ALL CORRUPT…”	Joseph Smith – History vv. 18-19. – Lds "scripture" Pearl of Great Price
...“which of all the sects was right…ALL their CREEDS were an ABOMINATION in his sight…they teach for doctrines the commandments of MEN…”	Joseph Smith – History vv. 18-19. – Lds "scripture" Pearl of Great Price
Mormon church the only ‘Christ-sanctioned’ church on earth: “…the foundation of this [Mormon] church…the ONLY true and living church on the face of the whole earth” [Obvious ‘scorched earth’ implication: All other churches are false and dead]	Lds “scripture” Doctrines & Covenants 1:30
Direct question asked of Joseph Smith: 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons?" Answer from Lds "prophet" Joseph Smith: 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness."	Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119 [Not “scripture” – but still publicly spoken by the Mormon ‘living prophet’ and published by a later Mormon ‘living prophet,’ Joseph Fielding Smith – via a publisher owned by the Mormon church – Deseret News Press, 1938]
“In 1952…the first official proselyting plan was sent to missionaries throughout the world…It included seven missionary discussions that emphasized…[four topics, one of them being]…THE APOSTASY and Restoration…” [This makes it almost 60 years that Mormon church missionaries, now numbering 52,000, have formally emphasized in its training & door to door saturation a priority in bashing the worldwide Christian church as “apostates” (100% AWOL)]	Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints p. 116, 1996

[svcw]

Romney’s family could not have fought in the Revolutionary War as mormons, there where no momorns until 1830.