The Two Faces of Harry Reid

It began with Gregory A. Prince, a Mormon author and blogger, who wrote about GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney:

“His arrogant and out-of-hand dismissal of half the population of this country struck me at a visceral level, for it sullied the religion that he and I share — the religion for which five generations of my ancestry have lived and sacrificed, the religion whose official mantra is ‘to take care of the poor and needy throughout the world,’” Prince wrote. “My first impulse was to rent an airplane towing a banner: ‘Mitt Romney is Not the Face of Mormonism!’”

Prince, who claims he backed Romney in his Massachusetts gubernatorial bid and in his 2008 run for president, railed against Romney after a secretly recorded video appeared in which the candidate said 47 percent of Americans believe they are victims and entitled to government handouts.

When asked if he agreed with Prince, Senator Harry Reid, a Mormon himself, answered, “He said that Romney has sullied the religion that he, Prince and Romney share and he’s so disappointed that in his words, ‘It’s a good religion and he’s hiding from it.”

“I agree with him. Romney’s coming to a state where there are a lot of members of the LDS Church.” Reid continued, “They understand that he is not the face of Mormonism.”

Remember, facts like the truth are a tricky thing for the Democratic Senate Majority Leader.

During the 2012 Democratic National Convention the party adopted the following, “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.”

Reid has yet to denounce this platform statement which isn’t in good standing with the Mormons church. In 1973, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released the following statement about abortion, which remains applicable today:

“The Church opposes abortion and counsels its members not to submit to or perform an abortion except in the rare cases where, in the opinion of competent medical counsel, the life or good health of the mother is seriously endangered or where the pregnancy was caused by rape and produces serious emotional trauma in the mother. Even then it should be done only after counseling with the local presiding priesthood authority and after receiving divine confirmation through prayer.”

Who is more the face of the LDS Church and who isn’t couldn’t be clearer.