Even Data Could Cry, Kind Of
December 16, 2007
The message has hit Mitt Romney; he is just too much of a robot. This has, apparently motivated his handlers to power him down and adjust his programming so that he is now capable of human-like emotion.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press†today that he wept with relief when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church, announced a 1978 revelation that the priesthood would no longer be denied to persons of African descent.
Romney’s eyes appeared to fill with tears as he discussed the emotional subject during a high-stakes appearance that he handled with no major blunders.
It seems strange that people would be so adamant about making Mitt explain his Church’s history on race while cheering Huck’s position on homosexuality, but in this campaign, nothing is under “normal” scrutiny. Romney’s family has a pretty solid reputation of civil rights activism, and particularly racial equality. His father, then governor George Romney, understood the importance of ending segregation, and while many people like to “say” that they stood with Martin Luther King, Governor Romney actually did at rallies in the deep South, in opposition to the edicts of his own church and many of his constituents. In Detroit, in Michigan, the race riots were dividing blacks and whites through lines, mile roads and school districts. He knew personally how deep-seeded racial divisions could destroy communities. As important as equality was to his father, then, its no surprise that Mitt would have this particular reaction when, just after he turned thirty, his church began admitting black priests and bishops (Mitt was minus one when blacks were finally allowed to receive the church’s patriarchal blessings).
Its kind of sleazy to ask Mitt to explain his church’s teachings on the subject, but we suspect its not like Huck is hiding his church’s teaching on everything else, making it all fair game (Rudy and Fred don’t appear all that interested, thank heavens, so we only have to hear about the faith of two frontrunners). The problem is, Huck believes everything typically associated with caricature-quality Christianity, with added emphasis on the really crazy stuff, making him, oddly, an acceptable excuse for a Republican to the media, or at least one that is so perfectly in line with their inflated interpretation of mainstream Christianity that he’s just another one off the line. Mitt kind of appears normal sometimes, so he gets the Kanye West treatment over some strange edict his church issued back in the 1830s, when most of the country, and certainly Arkansas, was having a hard time with the whole slavery thing.
Maybe some of them would care to explain why Robert Byrd still hasn’t torn up his Klu Klux Klan membership card and why Albert Gore, Jr. has never apologized for Albert Gore, Sr.’s strict opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Yeah, thought so.
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