From the NYT’s long piece yesterday about Mitt Romney’s tenure as a Mormon “lay leader”:
Mormons oppose abortion, except in extreme cases like rape, incest or where the life of the woman is in danger—and require that church elders be consulted. In 1990, Exponent II, a Mormon feminist magazine that Ms. Dushku, the Suffolk University professor, helped found, published an article by a married mother of four who recounted her own experience after doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy when she was being treated for a potentially dangerous blood clot. Her bishop got wind of the situation, she wrote, and showed up unannounced at the hospital, warning her sternly not to go forward. The article did not identify Mr. Romney as the bishop, but Ms. Dushku later did.
Now the woman has come forward, identifying herself in Mr. Scott’s book as Carrel Hilton Sheldon. (Through Ms. Dushku, she declined to be interviewed.) “Mitt has many, many winning qualities,” she is quoted as saying, “but at the time he was blind to me as a human being.”
Lay leader? Sounds more like a Mormon enforcer—and callous piece of shit.
I’m thoroughly enjoying watching the bat-shit crazy christian fundies renounce what they call the “mormon cult” aimed directly at (especially) Romney and Huntsman. Of course they’re ALL fuckin’ crazed, but it’s fun to watch them turn on each other in the name of JEEEEE-sus!
Anyhoo, yes Dan, he’s a callous piece of shit. What a dick. I don’t think he’ll make it through his party’s primary season, though. Some other fuck tard is going to win that mantle (please, please, please, please let it be Bachmann! Oh, so fun!!).