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1. Mitt didn’t disavow anything. You would have to look far and wide to find a faithful LDS man who has any kind of eagerness to bring polygamy back and Mitt’s remarks are representative of faithful LDS men. Even back in the day men like Brigham Young and others were extremely reluctant and began practicing it only out of faith and duty.

2. I never heard any LDS complain about anything like this either. Last I checked the Bible the Gideons handed out was a KJV New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs as well so what is the big deal?

3. Covenants are not promises or oaths. Nor is there any conflict between the oath of office and his duty to God as a faithful Mormon, in fact his duty to God would include keeping the oath of office.

4. Although the press breaks the quote into two parts and characterizes the last part about God appearing to others as well as ‘hastily added’, the fact remains that he said it. Again, I haven’t heard any Mormons complaining about this, and I’m reluctant to trust how the media portrays it.

5. I don’t see Romney as having done anything to blur any lines. He put emphasis the common values we share and pushed doctrinal differences aside as irrelevant to the political process (and he was right to do so). He was clear that there were differences, and they they were not relevant in deciding between candidates.

Of my fellow Mormons I’ve talked with who did not support Mitt, they were either liberals who though Mitt was too conservative, or they felt some other candidate was closer to the conservative idea.

I can’t recall hearing even on of my fellow LDS cite any of these as their reason for not supporting Romney. It seems to me that Newsweek went out and compiled a list of what anti-Mormons tried to use to turn Mormons against Mitt, found a couple Mormons to comment on the list, and didn’t really look at the reality of the situation.

Interesting though that even after his leaving the race, and even after McCain gets it all sown up, people still can’t get Mitt off their minds.