Mitt Romney speaking about Mormon faith
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0:00 - 0:01Well let me help you understand.
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0:01 - 0:04You don't understand my faith like I do, alright, so,
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0:04 - 0:07so give me, for a moment, the benefit of the doubt
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0:07 - 0:09that having been a leader of my church, a bishop and a state president,
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0:09 - 0:12I understand my church better than you do. - Right.
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0:12 - 0:16- Alright, my church has very strong beliefs that Mormons
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0:16 - 0:19should not participate in, encourage, in any way support abortion.
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0:19 - 0:24- You could be excommunicated if you do, it says right there. That's what they say, I don't say it! [laughs]
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0:24 - 0:26- Are you thinking I'm disagreeing with you?
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0:26 - 0:28- No, I don't know but if it's stronger...
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0:28 - 0:29- Are you disagreeing with me?
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0:29 - 0:34Let me once again say, I understand my faith better than you do.
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0:34 - 0:35- Right.
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0:35 - 0:36- You don't believe that do you?
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0:36 - 0:38- I'm not sure, you see, I...
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0:38 - 0:40- Well, then it's hardly worth having a discussion with you.
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0:40 - 0:41- Well no no, I'm...
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0:41 - 0:43- Listen, let me... can I complete the point?
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0:43 - 0:47- Well, the reason I said that, is because you also said in another forum,
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0:47 - 0:51I think it was on Stephanopoulos, about the second coming of Christ. - Right.
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0:51 - 0:54- And you said it's gonna happen in Jerusalem. - And it is.
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0:54 - 0:56- And your church says it's gonna happen in Missouri. - No it doesn't.
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0:56 - 1:00- Oh, is that wrong? - Is what wrong, is what wrong?
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1:01 - 1:05The church says that Christ appears on the Mount of Olives and splits the Mount of Olives
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1:05 - 1:07and appears in Jerusalem. That's what the church says.
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1:07 - 1:12And then over a thousand years, the millennium, that the world is reigned in two places,
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1:12 - 1:14Jerusalem and Missouri. That's what the church says.
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1:14 - 1:20The second coming, the arrival of Jesus Christ, our church says is in Jerusalem. That's the church doctrine.
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1:20 - 1:24- So Stephanopoulos mis-quoted your church, which is not surprising...
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1:24 - 1:26- That's fine, that's fine.
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1:26 - 1:29- ...but I was basing my question on that premise.
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1:29 - 1:33- Cleon Skousen has a book called "A Thousand Years" you can talk about.
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1:33 - 1:36Christ appears, it's throughout the Bible, Christ appears in Jerusalem,
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1:36 - 1:40splits the Mount of Olives to stop the war that's coming in to kill all the Jews,
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1:40 - 1:43it's... our church believes that. That's where the coming and glory of Christ occurs.
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1:43 - 1:47We also believe that over the thousand years that follows, the millennium,
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1:47 - 1:52he will reign from two places, that the law will come forward from one place...
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1:53 - 1:59from Missouri, and the other will be in Jerusalem. Alright, that's... now back to abortion.
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1:59 - 2:02- Before we... I have to get back on... but before we do anything else
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2:02 - 2:05I want you to understand one thing. I take this stuff real seriously.
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2:05 - 2:07- Oh I don't though. For me this is all frivolous. [!]
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2:07 - 2:09- No, I take you... no seriously now...
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2:09 - 2:10- Come on, I'm running for President!
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2:10 - 2:16- Now gimme a second, I'm just... just relax. I take you seriously, and I take what you're saying seriously.
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2:16 - 2:21- But you're not giving me the opportunity to explain to you...
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2:21 - 2:22- We only got eight minutes.
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2:22 - 2:28- ... that my, that my... my faith has very strong beliefs, that if I commit abortion, encourage an abortion...
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2:28 - 2:33I was beaten up in Boston because I pointed out time and again that I encouraged girls
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2:33 - 2:35not to get abortions. That I told her [sic] to have adoptions.
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2:35 - 2:40I have never done anything that in any way violates the principles of my church in that regard.
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2:40 - 2:42I've made other mistakes, but in that regard.
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2:42 - 2:50But the church does not say that a member of our church has to be opposed to allowing choice in society.
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2:50 - 2:55It does not say that. And therefore, there are Mormon Democrats.
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2:55 - 2:58There's a Democratic Party in Utah, filled with Mormons,
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2:58 - 3:01and the church doesn't say "they're wrong, they're being ex-communicated", no, it says,
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3:01 - 3:06"Look, we are vehemently opposed to abortion. Ourselves, and for ourselves."
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3:06 - 3:09"But we allow other people to make their own choice."
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3:09 - 3:12I disagree with that view. Politicially, I looked at it and I said, you know what, that's wrong.
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3:12 - 3:19And it's not a Mormon thing, it's a secular position to say, you know what, I was wrong.
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3:19 - 3:25We should have as a society a prohibition on abortion in the following circumstances.
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3:25 - 3:28But it's not violating my faith, let me assure you.
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3:31 - 3:34- I hope we can do this, and we can spend some quality time on the air,
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3:34 - 3:36rather than the soundbite stuff.
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3:36 - 3:40- No I, I mean, I don't like coming on the air and having you go after my church and me and my...
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3:40 - 3:41- I'm not going after your church, I agree with your church!
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3:41 - 3:44- I know, that's right, but... I'm not running as a Mormon,
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3:44 - 3:49and I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon. [sic]
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3:49 - 3:51- See, I don't mind it being about that...
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3:51 - 3:53- Yeah, I do. I do.
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3:53 - 3:55- I agree with the ethics of your church, for Pete's sake!
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3:55 - 3:57- So do I, so do I.
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3:57 - 4:00- Well, [laughs], so I was trying to...
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4:00 - 4:04- No, you're trying to tell me that I'm not a faithful Mormon, that I'm not faithful to my church.
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4:04 - 4:09- No, I'm trying to get you to reconcile what I think is a disparity between...
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4:09 - 4:12- ...and have a great discussion about Mormonism and the Mormon church
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4:12 - 4:15and reading the doctrines of the church and where my view is, and you know what?
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4:15 - 4:19I'm not running to talk about Mormonism.
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4:19 - 4:24- No, but the point is, you know, people who are likely to vote don't want to elect
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4:24 - 4:29a Ted Kennedy, who runs, comes back, or a Senator Harken,
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4:29 - 4:34who comes here to dalley, and comes here to Iowa and says "I'm pro-life",
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4:34 - 4:38and when he gets to Washington stands up and becomes pro-choice.
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4:38 - 4:41- Here's your opportunity to have that settled in your mind.
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4:41 - 4:45I was Governor for four years. See, that is what I'm talking about.
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4:45 - 4:48I was Governor for four years. I had a number of pieces of legislation that came to my desk
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4:48 - 4:54that dealt with abortion, abstinence education, RU486, and so forth.
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4:54 - 4:59I vetoed any bill that was in favour of choice. I was entirely consistent in favour of life.
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4:59 - 5:03So it's not just my word that have to take, but my record. Alright, thank you.
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5:03 - 5:06- Thank you. Thanks a lot.
- Title:
- Mitt Romney speaking about Mormon faith
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Mitt Romney ranting about Mormonism. The REAL Mitt Romney!
(Interview done by Jan Mikelson WHO-Iowa) - Video Language:
- English
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- Duration:
- 05:17
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