2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Speculation has it that Harry Reid's Source comes from within the Mormon Church... [View all]braddy
(3,585 posts)Which is true of course.
This is from Sunstone Magazine November, 2005. (Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry.)
"At that time, a senior LDS official close to the First Presidency said that some members of the Quorum were dismayed at Romneys position on abortion even if they understood it was consistent with the doctrine of agency.
They realized it would serve no purpose to quibblethe greater good was to get him elected, to give him a fair shot at realizing the victory his father booted forty years earlier."
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"As if to underscore his personal angst, as he has done in the past, he sought advice from the man he admires most in this world: Mormon president Gordon Bitner Hinckley.
The conversation eventually turned to whether a run for the presidency would be good for him and the Church. The specifics of the conversation are, of course, known only to people who were there. However, Romney left with the clear impression that the upbeat Mormon prophet was not worried one whit about the additional scrutiny a presidential campaign might focus on the Church and its teachings but was emphatic about steering wide of any and all partisan political involvements."