Brigham Young’s Great-Great-Granddaughter on Mormonism and Mitt Romney

[eridani]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/07/exclusive-brigham-young-s-great-great-granddaughter-on-mormonism-and-mitt-romney.html

Emmett has watched Mitt Romney very closely throughout his public life and has strong opinions about what shaped his personality and his character. “Mitt is a product not only of his wealth, but of an organization that gives men power when they are 12 years old,” she says. “That is when boys are ordained with the priesthood. It is a big moment in a Mormon male’s childhood.”

As for what pundits say is Romney's difficulty connecting with people, Emmett blames it largely on what she calls “the entitled Mormon male syndrome, where the leadership professes compassion and concern but leaves the manifestations of that to the drones. All male leadership is not this way; there are some wonderful men who do their best to exercise their power compassionately, but many do not.”

Emmett says Romney was a bishop, “a position where everyone defers to you. What a bishop says goes. People come to them to receive blessings.” He then became a stake president, she says, which means he presided over several congregations, and at that point bishops deferred to him.

“Mitt has had people defer to him and not challenge him his entire life,” says Emmett. “In the Mormon church if you challenge your priesthood leaders it’s a very bad thing to do, especially for women. As the world can now see, Mitt has a very hard time with being questioned and criticized; he’s had so little of this in his life."

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

1. That reminds me

That reminds me, Park Romney, Romney's ex-Mormon Libertarian cousin, has a similar opinion on Mitler. I will post a separate thread of something he wrote from his website in a few moments.

[brewens]

2. I have a friend who is somewhat obsessed with Mormon women and Mormon

sexual practices. He's kind of a pervert anyway so I don't take a lot of what he says seriously. He can really go off on the Mormons though. According to him it's a sex cult and the men really have it made. He's spent some time in Utah around them and swears there is all kinds of swapping going on. Then there's something called a "Saturday child" that I think he claimed is when a Mormon man gets an underage girl pregnant.

He doesn't seem otherwise biased against their religion and he's not religious himself. I think he wishes he was one of those guys.

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

3. Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith himself "shared" wives with other Mormons. In fact, it was his systematic abuse of women and coming on to a particular Mormon's wife that led to his death.

He came on to a Mormon wife, who told her husband, who got quite upset about it. Smith told her that God had told him personally that it was OKAY for her to give "half of her love" to him, and that she could keep the other half for her husband. The wife's husband (I forget his name) and other Mormon dissidents setup the Navuoo Expositor, a short lived newspaper that gave a lengthy expose on Smith's abuse of women who came to the LDS, his dictatorship in the city, his military ambitions, and his desire to establish a U.S. theocracy. This paper only lived for one publication, as Smith immediately convened a meeting of the city and formed an angry mob to burn down the Expositor. This led to his later arrest and shooting.

[bushisanidiot]

4. Romney is power hungry and is personally, a very angry person

when others don't follow along with his views, or dare question him on his lies,
he blows a gasket.

I can't wait to see him do that in one of the coming debates.

It will be delicious.