Chronos:
That’s not “has Ron Paul’s name on it”, that’s “has Ron Paul’s name in it”. Any old yahoo can put up an ad that says “Vote Ron Paul”, but they couldn’t air an ad without the familiar “I’m Ron Paul and I approve this ad” without his support. When you see an ad like that, it’s even money that it was actually put out by the opponents of the politician in question, as a false-flag operation to make him look bad.
Yes, that’s true. I should have clarified that there’s no evidence that it can from his camp.
DianaG:
So by this logic Catholics should be presumed to support child rape.
In all seriousness, I have issues with Romney’s religion only because he’s used religion as an argument against gay marriage, which I think is pretty hilarious when you belong to a religion that has historically regarded marriage as between (well, among) one man and as many barely pubescent girls as he’s able to acquire.
That said, as previously noted Romney’s association with LDS just is, he’s not espousing any particularly Mormon principles, and to my knowledge is not especially active in the church. He’s Mormon like Ted Kennedy was Catholic. No big. Now, if he were to put out a newsletter espousing racism and polygamy, that’d be bad, mkay?
You do realize that’s a doctrine they abandoned about 150 years ago.
You might as well say it was hypocritical for Bill Clinton to stand up for women’s rights when he was President of a country that historically denied women the vote.
Also Judaism used to endorse polygamy and Orthodox Islam does so to this day.
DianaG
January 8, 2012, 2:15am
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I suppose I might, if I regarded fighting *for *peoples’ rights as being the same as fighting *against *them.
Also, LDS abandoned polygamy out of political expediency. Now that I think about it, Romney might be Mormon to the core.
