2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Brigham Young’s Great-Great-Granddaughter on Mormonism and Mitt Romney [View all]WinstonSmith4740
(3,410 posts)You're absolutely right. I just got back from a family re-union back east, and one of the things I got to see was the Kennedy Library in Boston. (By the way, if you ever get the chance, GO!) He had the same issue with being a Catholic. The Republican Party at the time made a big deal of him being more faithful to the church instead of the law.
Here's the difference. Kennedy met the issue head on...his speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association can be found here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16920600. Romney won't talk about his membership in the church, much less his leadership positions in it, and is basically running from it. Suddenly, after 4 years of the wing-nuts calling Obama a foreign born, secret Muslim who hates America, NOBODY is supposed to talk about whether Rmoney will respect the carved in stone American doctrine about the law being the final word.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.