I sure don't. I care about what Mitt's plans are for the country. I don't care that he was a Mormon in 1972.

It definitely matters that he was reared to adulthood in a faith which held the inferiority of the Negro as divine revelation.

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

Did you watch the ad? It's little more than a hit piece on Romney's religion. And it's credited to Huntsman (which I think might be mistaken) and has an anti-Obama tag at the end. So it doesn't even belong here in the first place.

But plenty of Democrats started the same way. Everybody knows Robert Byrd's history and Bill Clinton had to make friends with plenty of 'former' segretationists to rise in the ranks of the Arkansas Democratic party.

1972 was 40 years ago. I don't give a shit what Mitt was doing then. I give a shit what he's doing now.

If it had any truth, then racial attitudes would never have changed in this country at all. We still have a long way to go and they are plenty of unrepentant racists out there, but as someone who grew up in the south, I can tell you without any hesitation that there are vast numbers of people who don't have the same attitudes towards race (or to Jews and Catholics) than their forebears.

And stating that something tends to be the case is not stating it is invariably so.

In applying the general view to this particular case, however, you have a person who, if he took his religion at all seriously, absorbed while young as a matter a sacred scripture directives to regard Negroes as inferior creatures cursed by his God. You then see this man, as an adult, aligned with a political party which counts persons animated by racism against blacks as its sturdiest bloc of mass support, and, as a part of his political campaign for President, personally displaying clear signs of racism in his public speeches, and giving countenance to racist speech by his mouthpieces and in his campaign advertisements. The conclusion that doctrines of the religion he was raised in have some influence on this behavior even today is a very reasonable one.

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

...BYUs federal exemption they get this "revelation"!??!!?!

Fuck em, it took pressure from the government for their god to give some revelation that they should change a racist ass'd doctrine and I don't believe they've changed the way they think just their doctrine