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"That same old problem of religion in politics: Mitt Romney, Mormonism, and The White House"

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[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. 

[xx] Lawn Griffiths, “Is America ready for a Mormon President?” The Phoenix Tribune.  August 18, 2007 

[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.

[xxvi] Lawn Griffiths, “Is America ready for a Mormon President?”  See also, B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992).

[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.

[xxxi] Joseph Smith History (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1981) 1:16.

[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.

[xxxiv] Carrie Sheffield, “White Horse on the White House: Will a Mormon candidate fulfill Joseph Smith’s prophecy” Opinion Journal – The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2006.

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