Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

[cbayer]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/election2012/6370/mitt_romney’s_best-known_mormon_critic_tells_it_all._one_last_time._/

September 10, 2012

An interview with Judy Dushku
By JOANNA BROOKS




For years, now, the press has been beating down the door of Judy Dushku, a Mormon feminist, global women’s rights activist, and professor at Suffolk University. It was Dushku who during Romney’s Senate run in 1994 broke the now infamous story of Romney’s pressuring a woman in his congregation not to have an abortion even though her life was in danger. That’s a brave stance to take in a community that prizes conformity and group loyalty.

But Judy Dushku is ready to stop serving as the media’s go-to on Romney’s issues with women. She’d like the whole story to be told. But she’d like the press crush to end. After all, she’s busy these days founding an initiative to foster economic self-sufficiency among women in Uganda.

I’ve known Judy for twenty years. With her graying hair in its bobbed cut, her twinkling blue eyes, her African jewelry, and her matter-of-fact presentation, she’s a beloved figure in Mormon feminism and a role model to young Mormon feminists. We sat down for breakfast in Boston recently. Our goal? To get the whole story of Mitt Romney’s most famous Mormon critic told once and for all. Her message? Yes, Mitt has issues, and no, he does not represent the whole Mormon story.

interview at link

[riverbendviewgal]

1. THis is so good

Thanks for sending this. Mitt is everything I thought he is. the article confirms it.

[cbayer]

2. The interviewer is a rising star in the media.

She is a really interesting writer and reporter.

I wasn't that familiar with the interviewee prior to reading this interview. It's good to know that there are true, progressive feminists within the mormon church that are fighting to change it.

Thanks for taking the time to take a look at it.

[speedoo]

3. k&are nt

[cleanhippie]

4. I'd like to know more about her work in Uganda.

Considering just how devastating the Christian missionaries have been in that country, I'm skeptical of anyone with a religious motivation doing anything in that country.

[LadyHawkAZ]

5. “In Salt Lake, they told me it was okay to take that position in a liberal state.”

Anyone else want to bring up the bogus comparison with JFK, or tell me again how his faith shouldn't be an issue?

[cbayer]

6. I found that line particularly disturbing as well.

[onager]

7. The irony, it burns.

Since it was Mormon money and troops that rammed thru Proposition 8 in the nation's most liberal state.