Gene Cesspool
by poputonianDoes anyone know what channel this comedy is on? I’ve read about the episode where the dude got the death penalty for putting the celery by the tomatoes, but this one about a Republican with contaminated genes should also be good for a laugh or two.

“My church has long ago given up that practice in the 1800s, but putting that aside for a moment, it’s real clear that Americans, myself included, believe that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman and not more than that, and also not same sex couples,” Romney told MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.

Romney, of course, didn’t mention that about the time The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy in 1890, his great-grandfather was among those Mormons who fled to Mexico to start their own community where plural marriage continued to be practiced.
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Romney’s family tree is rife with polygamists on the paternal side. Two great-great grandfathers, for example, had more than 10 wives each.
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His great-great grandfather, Miles Romney, eventually took on 13 wives, including the niece with the same name of his first wife, Elizabeth Gaskell. In all, Romney’s family tree harbors six polygamous men with 41 wives, according to research by The Salt Lake Tribune.
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“Within the Republican primary, when you get into South Carolina, God knows if polygamist roots will hurt him,” Ballenger says. “Maybe something like that would cost him enough votes.”

UPDATED to include last snippet. Most people quoted in the article don’t think this will matter in Romney’s political success or failure. I have no idea and was just making fun of the fact that Romney is having to defend himself about that marriage definition thing. I think Chrissy Matthews, on the other hand, is just plain fascinated that some men once had multiple wives.