I understand this is essential a beatup of a trivial non issue.
I cannot understand why Romney is so obsessed in clarifying his civil rights position and his Mormon church not accepting Blacks as church leaders before 1978? Who the f cares about such things. And Romney does not run the Mormon church, he does not has to clarify such things. This is the Republican primaries and civil rights etc is not really such a big issue.
Actually, in the speech that didn’t seem to be the thrust of the one-liner.