Mitt Romney on "Meet the Press" today turned emotional as he recalled the day in 1978 he learned over his car radio that his Mormon church had finally dropped its full membership barriers to blacks. He may have even shed a tear on camera, or as Drudge has it in a headline at the top of his site: MITT TEARS ON MTP. He had cried that day in 1978, too, allegedly so happy the black ban had finally collapsed.
You'd hardly know that, fact is, Romney had done absolutely nothing about fighting this racist barrier before his epiphany in his car.The Mormon Church considered blacks spiritually unfit as results of a biblical curse on the descendants of Noah’s son Ham. Some prominent Mormons — including Morris and Stewart Udall -- had publicly called for an end to the doctrine, the same kind of pressure that had earlier led to the end of approved polygamy. Mitt Romney, a former missionary -- and in an influential position as son of former Gov. George Romney -- said absolutely nothing.
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Romney did not clarify if he was crying because he was happy or because he was grieving the end of his church's exclusionary practices. He certainly seems to have been doing the latter, according to the CBS News Interview (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/15/the_skinny/main3505361.shtml)
The "other" Romney interviews yielded the following article excerpt:
Back in the U.S. at Brigham Young, when boycotts and violent protests over the university's virtually all-white sports teams broke out at away games, he stayed on the sidelines.
At the time, the Mormon Church excluded blacks from full membership, considering them spiritually unfit as the result of a biblical curse on the descendants of Noah's son Ham.
A handful of students and prominent Mormons called for an end to the doctrine, but Romney wasn't one of them. When he heard over a car radio in 1978 that the church would offer blacks full membership, he said, he pulled over and cried.
Sound like tears of joy? If you think so, you are among the first. Romney's interview CONVINCED me - along with his insincerity - of some bad things about him.
Sarcastically speaking,it is ludicras that anyone, and especially someone claiming to be a person of God, to shelter or practice the belief that any one group of people would have a biblical curse place upon them. Practices such as these are ignorance at it's highest level.
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