Has Mitt Romney Shown Religious Intolerance?
Here is a new rough draft for a TV commercial I will be producing for the Democratic Super PAC AmericanLP. Please send me suggestions and criticisms.
“Religious Tolerance”
:60 Second TV Ad
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Opening video of Rev Jeremiah Wright “God Damn America!”
Voiceover: “Intolerance is ugly in whatever form it takes, especially when it flows from the pulpit.”
(Text only: “November 19, 1993,”) Voiceover “the Mitt Romney family baptized Mitt Romney’s father-in-law, Edward Davies, 13 months AFTER Davies had died. Davies was a lifelong opponent of organized religion. Was this tolerant of Davies Wishes?”
(Text and images: On March 22, 1969, Ed Davies daughter Ann married Mitt Romney.) Voiceover: “Neither of Ann Romney’s parents was allowed into the Romney wedding ceremony performed at the Salt Lake Temple. Non-Mormons are not tolerated at the wedding ceremonies of Mormons.”
(text: “From 1966-1969, Mitt Romney was a full-time employee of the Mormon Church. Romney was appointed Bishop in the Mormon Church. Romney became one of the largest multi-million dollar donors of the Mormon Church”) Voiceover: “Since the 60s, Mitt Romney has been a powerful, influential Mormon Church leader. Mormons did not accept that Black people had full souls equal to Whites until 1978. What kind of leader promotes an organization that had an official policy of racial intolerance?”
Closing graphic in text “In 2012, vote in favor of religious tolerance.”
“Paid for by AmericanLP”
Are you pointing out that Mitt Romney is intolerant, or that the Mormon Church, of which he is a member, and to whose teaching he presumably adheres is intolerant? It sounds like the latter. If that is so, there is a very delicate line beyond which the ad could be considered distasteful. Better are references to Romney’s actual positions and actions that suggest practical intolerance.
There are 250 million better ways to go after Mitt Romney (r), and none of them are about his personal religious beliefs.