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In reply to the discussion: The throat-slitting gesture: Did EASTWOOD know it's part of Mormon ritual? [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)44. There's a table at the bottom of this page. Basically Pratt's g-daughter married Mitt's g'father.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_family(George) Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States with their children owing to the federal government's prosecution of polygamy. His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (18461909), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt. In the 1920s, Romney's uncle Rey L. Pratt (18781931) played a major role in the preservation and expansion of the Mormon presence in Mexico and in its introduction to South America...
Romney's parents, Gaskell Romney (18711955) and Anna Amelia Pratt (18761926), were American citizens and natives of the Territory of Utah. Gaskell Romney was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. They married in 1895 in Mexico... where George was born on July 8, 1907. They practiced monogamy (polygamy having been abolished by the 1890 Manifesto, although it persisted in places, especially Mexico)...Gaskell Romney was a successful carpenter, house builder, and farmer who headed the most prosperous family in the colony,which was situated in an agricultural valley below the Sierra Madre Occidental...
The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 and the Mormon colonies were endangered in 19111912 by raids from marauders...The Romney family fled and returned to the United States in July 1912, leaving their home and almost all of their property behind....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
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The throat-slitting gesture: Did EASTWOOD know it's part of Mormon ritual? [View all]
UTUSN
Sep 2012
OP
The BBC narrator said that the two are similar "but Mormons are smarter"!1 and both are CULTS n/t
UTUSN
Sep 2012
#5
The LDS throat-slitting gesture is part of temple ceremonies and is a depiction of what WILL BE DONE
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#6
It's something they nicked from the Freemasons along with most of their other temple ceremony
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2012
#12
He already wrote it. After he turned on the Mormons, he spent the rest of his life running from them
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#18
There's a table at the bottom of this page. Basically Pratt's g-daughter married Mitt's g'father.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#44
And he's a bishop. A man. Not one to be questioned. Not accustomed to being questioned. nt
valerief
Sep 2012
#14
The Mormon hierarchy has an unwritten policy of allowing and even encouraging lying if they believe
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#19