COLUMN - Hoe kijken Amerikanen in Nederland naar de presidentsverkiezingen aldaar? De komieken van Boom Chicago in Amsterdam werpen hun licht op Obama, Romney en alles daaromheen in een serie gastblogs. Vandaag in aflevering 2: Mitt Romney en zijn Mormoonse achtergrond.
Reading today’s news is tough for Obama supporters like me. Gallup polls have Romney ahead of Obama by two percentage points among likely voters. Election Day is less than a month away and the idea of a Romney victory gives me the shivers.
So, I thought now is as good a time as any to bring up something about Mitt Romney that nobody is talking about; something that bothers me.
Mitt Romney is a Mormon.
Not just a Mormon, actually. He’s a Mormon Bishop. He baptized people. He hired priests. And, because he’s Mitt Romney, he probably fired them as well.
I don’t have anything against religion. I grew up in a religious family, and, to be honest, I rather enjoy going to church.
No, my beef isn’t with Religion. It’s with Mormons and their history with black people. Did you know that before 1978, Mormons weren’t supposed to “associate with black people”?