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so was there a polygamy commune, or wasn’t there?
this washington post write-up on the tiff between mitt romney and brian schweitzer is remarkably free of information. we learn, for the sixth or seventh time, that gov. schweitzer will not apologize for what he told ben jacobs – that mitt romney “will probably not choose to highlight his own family’s connection to mexico as a way of reaching out to hispanics, because that history involves a polygamy colony.” and we learn that romney is offended.
the write-up wraps with this: “romney’s father, george, was born in mexico and moved to the united states as a child. he went on to become the governor of michigan.” which… doesn’t tell us what’s being discussed. let’s go back to what schweitzer told jacobs.
schweitzer did not say that romney’s “dad’s dad was a polygamist.” he said that romney’s dad was born into a “polygamy commune in mexico.” this is true. in the 1880s, miles romney – the great-grandfather of the current gop candidate – established a commune in mexico with the express purpose of allowing the church to continue that practice after the united states cracked down on it. miles took another wife in 1897, while living in the colony. gaskell romney, his son, didn’t engage in plural marriage. so both romney and schweitzer, talking past each other, are right.

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