Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Romney "cried" when blacks were allowed to join the Morman Church??

Where is the media when you need them?

In the CBS News Story "Mitt Romney as Mormon Missionary" (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/15/the_skinny/main3505361.shtml), we learn something about Romney's past feelings about blacks. Here is the entire article, with the most telling section shown below and highlighted below in bold:

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.

So, the man who wants to be the 44th President of all of America "cried" when black people were admitted to his church?? When did his feelings toward blacks change, assuming that they have changed? Why is it that no one in the media has asked Mitt (who reminds me a lot of "Joe Isuzu from the 80's commercials) about this?

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