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Fellow Mormons Say Romney Is Not The Face Of The Religion, He Sullies It
http://www.ibtimes.com/fellow-mormons-say-romney-not-face-religion-he-sullies-it-795875BY Laura Matthews | September 26 2012 10:24 AM
GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney is still feeling the repercussions from a secret video recording, leaked online more than a week ago, showing him dismissing nearly half of Americans as freeloaders.
This time, the backlash is coming from some of his fellow Mormons, who say the Romney running for president isn’t the face of the religion. Instead, they say that Romney sullies Mormonism, a religion that takes care of the poor and those in need, with that “47 percent” comment.
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Mormon author Gregory A. Prince, a former Romney supporter, wrote in a blog post for the Huffington Post last week that the GOP nominee’s comments angered him.
“When the news of Mitt Romney's Florida video broke on Monday evening, I was incensed -- but not for its political implications,” Prince wrote. “His arrogant and out-of-hand dismissal of half the population of this country struck me at a visceral level, for it sullied the religion that he and I share -- the religion for which five generations of my ancestry have lived and sacrificed, the religion whose official mantra is to 'take care of the poor and needy throughout the world.’”
Prince added that his initial impulse was to “rent an airplane towing a banner that reads ‘Mitt Romney is Not the Face of Mormonism!’”
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