....and then this happened.

http://www.todayinmormonhistory.com/2017/08/50-years-ago-today-aug-31-1967.html

I have never considered myself a Republican and I was just 18 then, not yet eligible to vote, but I felt bad for George. IIRC, there were lots of people who agreed with him.

Apologies if you've already read 50 Years in Mormonism today.

Even though was 7 at the time, I remember him saying that he was brainwashed, but not by whom.

When Mitt was first campaigning for President I wondered whether he was George's son. It had not even occurred to me before then that George Romney was Mormon.

More recently, I saw an old photo with Marion Romney looking over one of Mark Hofmann's forgeries.

Edit: I guess Marion was George's cousin.



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I think the Romney's, in one line or another, are all related to the Romney's who were polygamists in Mexico.

I'm not sure why, but I used to like to listen to Marion G., although I avoided listening to as many of them as I could. Here's a piece from Wiki about his history:

Romney was born in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to expatriated parents, George S. Romney and Teressa Artemesia Romney (née Redd).
His father George Romney was a cousin of Michigan governor George W. Romney, who was born in nearby Colonia Dublan. Marion Romney is the second cousin of Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 Republican presidential candidate. Teressa Redd was the daughter of Lemuel Hardison Redd and Sariah Louisa Chamberlain. Teressa and George married in 1894 in Colonia Juárez.
Romney was the second of ten children. His younger sister, Lurlene Romney Cheney, later converted to Catholicism and entered a religious order as Sister Mary Catherine, a Carmelite nun at the Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Holladay, Utah.[1]
Romney studied at Academia Juárez until his family left Mexico in 1912, when violence from the ongoing Mexican revolution spread to their region. He lived with them for the remainder of his youth in California and Idaho. In 1917, the Romneys moved to Rexburg, Idaho, where his father became principal of Ricks Academy. Romney graduated valedictorian of Ricks high school in 1918.

FYI:

"Lurlene Romney Cheney, later converted to Catholicism ..."

Lurlene had a daughter:

Evona Cheney (1924-2011), who married Jay Huntsman (1923-2002)

Wow. This means I am a distant cousin to the Romneys.

Artemesia a/k/a "Mesha" was an ancestress of mine.

She was very good at watercolors.

There was a Romney who was a portrait painter in England way back when. He is a distant ancestor of the Utah Romneys, but of course Artemesia was not a Romney until she got married

The Romneys and the Redds were both in COlonia Juarez escaping the feds and doing their best to keep polygamy alive.

Camilla Kimball, Spencer's wife, grew up in Colonia Juarez in a polygamous household, untl Pancho Villa made life uncomfortable for them and everybody had to leave town fast.

Lovely name, Artemesia.

GR was SP when I was p n my mish there... Or was he Governor? I forget which, but I remember going to his house after stake conference!

If George W. Romney was born in Colonia Dublan in Mexico, how did he qualify to be president?

Just askin'

His parents were (still) US citizens.
Children born to 2 US citizens, no matter where they're born, are US citizens.

Just like Ted Cruz was born in Canada, but was born a US citizen. Same thing.

I shoulda known that. Thanks

Funny how he could spot "brainwashing" about this issue but not in his religion.