Why Romney Might Not Want to Define Marriage

[babylonsister]

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Why Romney Might Not Want to Define Marriage


Andrew Sullivan takes exception with Mitt Romney's statement -- highlighted in a new Obama video -- that we should not discard 3,000 years of history of marriage.

"Ahem. His own family were ardent polygamists only a century ago -- and went to Mexican colonies to escape US federal oppression of their version of marriage (which also goes back a long, long way and still exists across the world). Romney's great-grandparents were polygamists; one of his his great-great-grandfathers had twelve wives and was murdered by the husband of the twelfth. For Romney to say that the definition of marriage has remained the same for 3,000 years is disproved by his own family. It's untrue. False. A lie."

[jenmito]

1. Amen! But it's too late-he DID define it. And he wants to outlaw same-sex marriage with a

constitutional amendment, too.

[Robbins]

2. Here was my comment on this

Romney Is last person who should be talking about marrage

1:His own family history(If attacking Obama's father and Stepfather are ok then Romney's family history Is ok)
2:While the Moman church official postion now Is against pologramy there have been reports many momans don't abide by that
3:Untill 1978 Blacks couldn't be ministers(or whatever they are called) In the moman
church and reports are the moman church Is opposed to Interracial relationships
4:Romney Is bishop In chuch and donates Millions to It.He can easily be tied to the
church's activities
5:This highlights Romney's flipflopping from being to left of ted Kennedy on Gay rights In 1994 to severly conservative who opposed to even civil unions todays.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And wouldn't it be great if we ever had a 'journalist' that could ask Mitt

after his statement, "How then do you justify your own great-grandparents definition of marriage?"

[KurtNYC]

4. Having Mormons define marriage is like having Crispy Creme define health food.

btw, is the 13th wife free?

[Zorro]

5. Romney defines marriage as a holy sacrament between a man and a woman

and a woman and a woman and a woman...

[DrKPhd]

6. A few thoughts

This 3000 year history of marriage included the dowry system, as well. The "traditional" marriage that the Republicans cling to typically isn't the 3000-year-old variety, it's the kind from the 50s. American conservatives idealize the already idealized "Leave it to Beaver" image of the nuclear family which was a modern aberration, and they justify that idealization by claiming it's always existed.