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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
And Thus Spoke Moroni: Kill a Fetus for the Senate; Jail a Doctor for the White House
Mitt Romney = Hypocrisy
We have a Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, who wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Yet, in 1994, when he was running for the Senate, he came out in favor of choice for women.
Romney admitted to Mormon feminist Judith Dushku that “the Brethren” in Salt Lake City told him that he could take that position, and that in fact he probably had to in order to win in a liberal state like Massachusetts.
Pandering triumphs over religious belief.
PAUL KRASSNER is the editor of The Realist. His books include: Pot Stories for the Soul, One Hand Jerking and Murder at the Conspiracy Convention. He can be reached through his website: http://paulkrassner.com/