[xvi] Kip [blogger], “Mitt Romney is no Jack Kennedy,” A Stitch in Haste, July 27, 2007.
[xvii] Scott Schulte, “Resilient Romney: Can he play in Peoria?” Utah Spirit, June, 2007. p. 7.
[xviii] AP Interview: Romney considering speech to discuss role of his Mormon faith in politics. Associated Press. Thursday, July 26, 2007.
[xix] Ibid.
[xxi] Alec [blogger]. A Stitch in Haste. July 27, 2007.
[xxii] Ibid. See also, Brian Miller [blogger], A Stitch in Haste. July 27, 2007. See also Michael Golden [blogger], A Stitch in Haste. July 28, 2007.
[xxiii] Doctrine and Covenants. (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1981) Section 132:61-64.
[xxiv] “Celestial Marriage,” Seer 1:2 (Feb. 1853), 31-32.
[xxv] Lisa Miller, “Belief Watch: Ever After” Newsweek. September 3, 2007.
[xxvii] Benjamin F. Johnson, Why the Latter Day Saints Marry a Plurality of Wives…(1854), 13-15.
[xxviii] Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997) and B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992) as well as B. Carmon Hardy, Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its origin, practice and demise (Norman: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2007).
[xxix] Ibid.
[xxx] The Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1981) 2 Nephi 5:21 as well as Mormon 5:15.
[xxxii] Chandra Niles Folsom, “The Mormons are Coming,” Fairfield Weekly. July 26, 2007.
[xxxiii] Joseph Smith History (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1981) 1:18-19.