Are Romney or Leavitt for Polygamy?
Didn’t think so.
In context, it is necessary to understand this is UTAH we are talking about.
The issue of Polygamy prosecution is apparently a troubling one there. Most Mormons don’t practice it or condone it, but some of them do, and what to do about them is a UTAH troubling issue.
Leavitt apparently resolved his confusion that possibly Polygamy is protected under freedom of religion by later saying he now knows it is not.
YOU, the poster of this thread, may believe the story of Romney’s Leavitt appt. is about Polygamy, but it isn’t about that.
Leavitt has held very high-level, federal appt. jobs under President Bush, as well as having been a long-time governor of Utah.
He isn’t a new face on the scene.
I have known of him for years.
You are cherry picking, trying to force feed us like we were babes in the woods.
And that’s the truth.
The Dessert News (a SLC lds publication) made it about polygamy. Grey was just posting the article.
People will wonder about polygamy, because the MSM will not stop asking about it and cable networks are not going to stop doing shows on it.
moromns practice polygamy, that’s what the whole sealing for eternity in the temple deal is about - many wives......for and we know the answer.
Are Romney or Leavitt for Polygamy?
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Romney is...
He often announces that he “believes in” the “faith” of his fathers...
Romneys ancestors were polygamists who believed that polygamny would lead to godhood and getting to go to the highest level of the Mormon afterlife with a planet of their own and lots of willing “wives”
Th Mormon doctrine polygamy AKA “celestial marriage” is called “the first principle”
IOW its the most important thing to believe in and practice in Mormonism...
Monogamy is called prostitution...
The advocacy group Conscience Cause formed in February to rescind or revise the birth control mandate. The organization's board includes Jim Nicholson, the former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President George W. Bush, and Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Ed Gillespie. Gillespie is an adviser to the Romney campaign. ".... Source
The focus needs to stay on the Left and their efforts to breakdown this country, brick by brick. No one will accuse Mormons of hating the United States and American exceptionalism.
It's hilarious to see a Romney supporter accusing someone of "cherry picking" and of all things, "force feeding" after the way that Mitt was force fed down the throats of voters.
BTW, I have been posting mormon facts at FR since '07....and until the mormon church recalls the 52,000 missionaries that are out there knocking on the doors of Christians and claiming their Christian faith is bogus, I will continue to do so.
Mitt won't be able to hide from mormon polygamy, and choosing Leavitt as a team leader after Leavitt's statement on it is as dumb as the GOP-E running a member of a proven racist sect against a black man.
Nobody knows the answer to that except for Romney and Leavitt. I don't know anything about this Leavitt but Romney is a known flip flopping, lying, liberal.
Lie detectors aren't positively 100% accurate but put them both on one and we might learn a little more.
Leavitt was Governor of Utah, having sworn to uphold the Constitution and laws of the State of Utah, when he gave a press conference on July 23, 1998, and was asked about the felony child abuse prosecution of John Daniel Kingston that was then ongoing and in the headlines.
Kingston was accused of beating his 16-year-old daughter with a belt when she balked at becoming the fifteenth wife of Kingston's brother. Although Kingston, a polygamist, was being tried for felony child abuse, neither Kingston, nor his brother, were being prosecuted for polygamy. Kingston was leader of a break-off fundamentalist Mormon sect, clearly not the LDS.
Anti-polygamy groups were publicly and vocally outraged that no polygamy charges had been brought and the Kingston matter was a major public and political issue in Utah.
Leavitt was asked in the news conference why Utah didn't prosecute polygamy. In addition to the comment that it may be a religious freedom (despite there being a famous U.S. Supreme Court case to the contrary when the LDS Church was fighting against federal prohibitions against polygamy, Reynolds v. U.S., one that any Utah lawyer or politician should know), Leavitt didn't leave the matter there.
He acknowledged that Utah didn't prosecute polygamy. He suggested it was a matter of consenting adults (and many here on FR will agree). He answered questions about polygamy for approximately four minutes before announcing he would answer no more. Among his comments, he said:
"It's clear to me in this state and many others, they have chosen not to aggressively prosecute it. I assume there is a legal reason for that. I think it goes well beyond tradition. What needs to be cracked down on, if there is to be such a crackdown, is any abuses of peoples' civil and human rights."
All of that - with the religious rights soundbite - is what caught national attention.
Leavitt later backtracked on the religious rights statement, however, he never issued orders to begin a prosecution of polygamy. In fact, there never was one. To this day, the official website of the Utah Attorney General states that Utah and Arizona have chosen to deal with child abuse and welfare cheating from polygamy, rather than polygamy itself. Again, my assumption is many on FR will agree with that stance.
However, Leavitt swore to uphold the Utah Constitution, which prohibits polygamy. He swore to uphold Utah laws, which prohibit polygamy. He was forced into the spotlight on polygamy, and the fact that Utah does not prosecute polygamy, because of a particularly noteworthy case and press conference.
Once he learned that he was wrong about the religious grounds . . . his choice was apparently to let the polygamy continue.
That's why he's viewed as the poster boy for political polygamy. Not that he's practicing it - but that moreso than any other Utah governor, he was put on the spot to police the prohibition and he chose not to do so, for what that's worth.
Was he sticking up for libertarianism and civil rights? Was he being a political pragmatist in a state that doesn't want a polygamist history spotlighted, now matter how? Call it as you see it.
These people ... I never knew there was such a hotbed of Mormon hate left in the world and here it is on Free Repubic.
Obviously, this man spent many years in public service, was a governor for ten years and had a high appointment under President Bush.
To drag up polygamy on this guy is grasping at really ugly straws.
This pick does Romney no good. Lots of blogs today were bringing up the fact that Leavitt is pro-Obamacare.
How stupid is Romney?
Leavitt is a crony capitalist who has been making millions off of Obamacare. He sends absolutely the wrong/right message about a Romney administration by heading up his transition team.