'The Desert (sic) News of Salt Lake City is owned by the Mormon church. But that didn't stop the editorial board from ripping presidential candidate Mitt Romney about his time on the board of Marriott when the company was making money hand over fist from pornographic videos.
The Brody File broke this story FIRST. Since then, the Associated Press and others have followed with pieces of their own and it has spread. Below is the first part of the editorial:
"Pornography taints everything it touches. Mitt Romney should have understood that. So should the Marriott Corporation and other hotel owners who offer hard-core movies in hotel rooms. Romney caught a bit of flack last week because he spent nearly 10 years on the Marriott board and yet never tried to reverse the company's policy of providing pornography on demand, something J.W. 'Bill' Marriott Jr., defended in a 2000 letter as being economically important..For a presidential candidate who has railed against pornography, this is not entirely insignificant. Even if the subject never came up at a board meeting, one can argue that at least part of the $25,000 plus stock he was paid annually for his board membership came from the money some hotel guests paid for access to the films."
It's never a good thing when your own church gets on your case but I wonder how much this will hurt Romney. I don't think the story by itself is a major issue but groups determined to take him down will try and lump the Marriott story into a wider argument about how Romney says one thing and does another.'
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/195576.aspxedit: to add
sic at citation of the Deseret News.