[CaptainK]

I thought Romney was pro-abortion.

[sagar]

To liberals, he was anti-abortion. To conservatives, he was pro-abortion. Basically, Mitt Romney is two-faced. He morphs into anything he wants to, and can be morphed into anything others want him to be.

[fishtank]

Romney worships the self-god of chaos.

This story makes perfect sense, because at its root, mromneism makes no sense.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. The Mormon haters got to have it both ways. He's a pro-life extremist if the audience is wavering Massachussets moderates and, at the same time, he personally performs abortions if the audience is wavering southern Evangelicals.

This article fails the smell tests for two reasons:

1. Mormon bishops are not in charge of thousands of congrgants. Even hundreds might be a stretch. A bishop is basically a lay leader in charge of a single congregation, i.e. what you can seat in a modest sized church building. I'd guess that to be about 300 tops if the house is packed. If they are like any other denomination, there may be half again that many members on the rolls who never turn up for church unless they are giving away free stuff.

2. A single lay leader doesn't have sole authority to excommunicate anyone for any reason at the local level. I recall a big national flap over one Sonya Johnson and the equal rights amendment back in the late 1970's. She had to go to a lot of trouble to get excommunicated in order to get a big national soapbox for her moon battery. I doubt that the system has changed much. If it was that easy, I am sure there are a lot of Mormon rank and file who would love to see Harry Reid get excommunicated.

[svcw]

He is. Probably just didn’t get to her soon enough, which is why she was threatened afterward.

[Psalm 144]

“I thought Romney was pro-abortion.”

For ‘gentiles’, most definitely. ‘Latter Day Saints’ appear to be another matter.

I spotted this dichotomy a while ago, and that is my conclusion. Do all you can to maximize population growth in one’s own population group while suppressing it in that of all others. Ditto in promoting sterile copulatory arrangements. Reduce theirs, grow yours, rinse and repeat for a few generations and the game has changed.

As an historical example of such a policy, the Third Reich awarded the Cross of Honour of the German Mother for exemplary living and childbearing provided that both parents of the children were “deutschblütig” and genetically-fit, the mother was “worthy” of the decoration and that the children were live births. This was simultaneous with the same State initially sterilizing and eventually liquidating the ‘impure’ and the unfit population.

Same principle.

A theory, but it would resolve the apparent contradiction.

[DNA.2012]

Romney IS pro-abortion.

And the new Republican nominee.