Mitt Mormony

Cf: Spencer W. Kimball, who on December 30, 1973, became the twelfth president of the Mormon church, feels that the Indians are actually becoming a "white and delightsome people." In the LDS General Conference, October 1960, Mr. Kimball stated:

I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents--on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated (Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

SheikBen wrote:Keli I do not disagree that Mormonism is wrought with grave error, and further that Romney is not a good candidate. I surely will not vote for him in the primaries. However, if it is him or Obama, I fear the choice is obvious.

I think we do well to remember that the last person in the White House to self-identify as a Baptist was that paradigm of virtue, Bill Clinton. I don't think Mitt's mormonism is really pertinent in why he is a bad candidate with misguided policy positions.