Politics’ Strangest Bedfellows

The ‘Way Back Machine School of Thinking’ is becoming a prominent tool in election campaigns; and the Internet the latter day ‘Penny Dreadful’ of the global reading world.

With Mormonism up front and out there in the person of GOP-pushed presidential candidate Mitt Romney; with the outing of tag team Mitt Romney and Ron Paul coming to the surface; with Ron Paul’s son Rand Paul saying he would be honoured should Romney tap him for vice president, the “news” of the day leads you all the way back to eight-year-old Marco Rubio.

Political blog buzzfeed.com wants you to know that Marco was something other than just a cute, little dark-eyed boy when he was eight.

When his family lived in Nevada, this little turncoat already had a history with the Mormon church. As a little gaffer, Rubio most likely already had a relationship with tadpoles too, but that doesn’t fit the Brutus template.

Rubio family members (God only knows why) owned up to Buzzfeed that Rubio was baptized in the Mormon Church at about the ripe old age of 8, along with some of his family members.

Though they are sometimes loathe to admit it, proselytizing goes on in most religions, and when Rubio was attending grade school, he and his family lived in the Mormon stronghold of Nevada.

Rubio and the Marco clan were, up until the faith swicheroo, Catholics. After a few years, the family returned to Catholicism and Rubio received his First Communion at age 12.

Converts sometimes find themselves going back to the church they attended before their conversion. Tolerance being a cornerstone of all religions but one, no one tars and feathers converts returning to their original places of worship.

via Politics’ Strangest Bedfellows.

 

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• Was Marco Rubio A Mormon? Who Cares? (huffingtonpost.com)
• Rubio active in Mormon Church as adolescent (thehill.com)