Romney's toast: Wait 'til the Juh-heezus-loving right learns there's polygamy in his lineage....

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from the AP, via Yahoo:

By JENNIFER DOBNER and GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writers
2 hours, 44 minutes ago



SALT LAKE CITY - While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.

Polygamy was not just a historical footnote, but a prominent element in the family tree of the former Massachusetts governor now seeking to become the first Mormon president.

Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897. That was more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice.

Romney's great-grandmother, Hannah Hood Hill, was the daughter of polygamists. She wrote vividly in her autobiography about how she "used to walk the floor and shed tears of sorrow" over her own husband's multiple marriages.

Romney's great-great grandfather, Parley Pratt, an apostle in the church, had 12 wives. In an 1852 sermon, Parley Pratt's brother and fellow apostle, Orson Pratt, became the first church official to publicly proclaim and defend polygamy as a direct revelation from God.
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The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_el_pr/romney_polygamy

[napi21]

1. This was posted earlier here on DU. It shouldn't matter what

his relatives did. I don't want Mitt as Prez, but it has nothing to do withwhat hisancestors did!

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2. Not saying it should....but it will with the Repug rightist base.

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[LiberalFighter]

3. I doubt it they don't know how to read the newspapers

They get all their info from Windbag and O'Liely