Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 08, 2012
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October 09, 2012
Transcript:
Parisian: Oui? Mitt Romney: Bonjour, monsieur! We're her to persuade you to abandon your faith traditions for ours! We feel so strongly that our religious beliefs are superior to your own that we've forgone service in Vietnam to tell you about them! Parisian: Go away. I am relaxing with my mistress. Mitt Romney: When should we come back? Ten minutes? July, 1968. A wary Parisian answers his door. It's elder Mitt Romney!
I understand that Mitt Romney was reared in the LDS tradition, which includes a sordid tradition of overt, institutional racism. As an adult, however, Mr. Romney is responsible for his own spiritual decisions. An apostle once known as Saul of Tarsus wrote, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” (I Corinthians 13:11, RSV)
Has Mr. Romney ever publicly addressed why he maintained his childhood affiliation with, and even took leadership roles in, a church which, until Mitt’s thirty-second year of life, excluded blacks from its priesthood?
And have those Republicans who in 2008 made much to do about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons ever taken Mr. Romney to task about his church’s racist history?