Mitt Romney
Faith in the spotlight on Kennedy Center red carpet and stage at annual Honors gala
By Adelle M. Banks — December 5, 2022
(RNS) — Singer Ellie Holcomb said Amy Grant taught her to be a ‘there you are person’ rather than a ‘here I am person.’
How opposition to Prop 8 led Latter-day Saints to back Senate’s same-sex marriage bill
By Bob Smietana — November 16, 2022
(RNS) — Same-sex marriage, long a divisive issue, could be the thing that brings Americans together, said Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah.
Does Evan McMullin have a chance to beat GOP Senator Mike Lee in Utah?
By Jana Riess — October 24, 2022
(RNS) — For an incumbent GOP senator to lose an election in one of the nation’s rubiest states is certainly a long shot, at least according to the rules of politics as usual. But it's not politics as usual.
Why believe better family policies will reduce abortions? Well, there’s the data.
By Charles C. Camosy — June 7, 2022
(RNS) — There is plenty of evidence to suggest that increased social support will result in fewer abortions.
Biden restores Bears Ears, other monuments cut by Trump
By Matthew Daly — October 8, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante […]
We must take care of our children
By Thomas Reese — February 24, 2021
(RNS) — A refundable child tax credit would drastically reduce child poverty at a time when children are in great need.
At the Capitol, we saw the best and the worst of US Mormonism
By Jana Riess — January 8, 2021
(RNS) — The domestic terrorist who dangled from the Senate balcony and occupied Mike Pence's seat is a returned missionary of the LDS Church, to our shame. But Mitt Romney, also a Mormon, showed some of the best qualities our religion is capable of.
Could Catholic moral theology light the way for a new GOP?
By Charles C. Camosy — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — The party is realigning around a religious, multiethnic, working-class populism, and Catholic thought could provide an ideological foundation.
How Romney and Pelosi used their faith to resist Trump
By Emma Petty Addams, Jennifer Butler, and Jennifer Walker Thomas — February 14, 2020
(RNS) — We can follow their example to stop supporting candidates who use faith as a means to consolidate power, influence or money.
Impeachment leads to theological war of words among Trump critics and backers
By Jack Jenkins — February 8, 2020
(RNS) — A theological war of words over Trump's impeachment has been going on for months, with the commander-in-chief and his opponents invoking the divine and questioning each other’s faith.
When religious conviction trumps politics: The case of Mitt Romney
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2020
(RNS) — The former Republican standard-bearer puts his follow GOP senators to shame.
Romney cites faith as inspiring his vote to convict Trump
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — February 5, 2020
(RNS) — 'I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am,' he said, taking a long pause to collect himself. 'I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.'
Mormon political control of Utah may be slipping, election shows
By Jana Riess — November 7, 2018
(RNS) — Despite the opposition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah voters affirmed medical marijuana. Although Mormonism remains deeply influential in this red state, the church is gradually losing its political control.
Romney: Jeffress wrong man to give Jerusalem embassy prayer
By Associated Press — May 14, 2018
(AP) — Senate candidate Mitt Romney of Utah says a prominent Baptist minister shouldn’t be giving the prayer that opens the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem because he’s a 'religious bigot.'
Will Mitt Romney’s senate bid turn (more) Mormons away from Trump?
By Jack Jenkins — February 16, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Romney's pitch reflects a Mormon tradition of polite politics and reservedness about one's faith that differs from other American religious conservatives, in particular evangelicals.
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