Imagine if Obama was running against somebody who for the first 13 years of his adult life belonged to a doctrinaire "white only" elaborate Good ole boys' country club...
...and that the candidate gave 10% of his income to the white-only country club...
...and that the country club had a gazebo commonly used for the tithing members...but blacks weren't allowed...
Do you think that both Dems & MSM would somehow refrain from exploring all that...???
...All because some Mormons want a "closed book" on their history???
...And because a few Republicans -- who probably compartmentalize 'religion' in their own lives -- want to impose a hermetically-sealed approach to faith issues upon others???
The FACTS are:
* Blacks could not commonly hold the priesthood til 1978;
* black men or women could not get married in lds temples til 1978;
* in fact, they couldn't get temple recommends til 1978;
* which also meant that blacks were generally excluded from the upper etchelon of the Mormon heaven (=living with heavenly father forever)...unless they were servants/slaves there.
And not a peep from Mitt Romney in his 20s or early 30s about this doctrine & policy of his church???
People called me crazy but I really felt something was VERY off when the Mormons poured so much money and manpower into helping pass Prop 8 in CA. Not that their help was unwelcome, but it seemed strange because A) CA is not a major Mormon stronghold and B) why would the Mormons off all people, work so hard to pass a law defining marriage as being only between ONE man and ONE woman? It’s well known that they only gave up their dogma regarding polygamy reluctantly under extreme duress from the US government, so why were they SO devoted to this fight?
I personally believe it was to “pave the way” for Romney’s run, to expose themselves to evangelicals and other committed Christians who probably had limited interaction with them, in a way that made them seem like “the good guys” and discourage any deeper inquiry into their , erm, “non-mainstream” beliefs