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Alternet Exposes Mitt Romney’s Role as Mormon Bishop. Shows his Extremist Religious Beliefs
The Alternet piece begins with a certain Peggy Hayes, then a 21 year old Mormon and unmarried mother of a three year old daughter. One day Romney, her bishop asked if he could come over:
Hayes, the divorced, unmarried mother of a 3-year-old daughter, was struggling as a nurse’s aide in a working-class suburb of Boston. She had little in common with the successful Bain executive, but the request wasn’t as odd as it might seem. Hayes was a Mormon. Romney was her bishop. Romney walked into her small apartment, made small talk and then commanded her to give her baby up for adoption after it was born. He was her bishop, and as she knew, Mormonism disapproved of single motherhood. Hayes said no.
Romney did not like the answer and allegedly threatened Hayes with excommunication:
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