I would just like to say that Romney is Mormon by decent. This can be traced if you decided to look it up. It is fact. His great great grandfather came through the area of Arkansas. He is of dishonest decent. Read and learn who your next president may be!

Read today that Willard *Mitt* Romney's ancestor was Parley P Pratt (Jared Pratt b 1769 >Parley Parker Pratt b 1807 Otsego NY (brother was Orson Pratt) >  Helaman Pratt b 1846 > Anna Amelia Pratt m Gaskel Romney. He wrote about him in his book "Turnaround" - From Salon.

The precipitous mountain pass that led the [Mormon] pioneers down into the Salt Lake Valley and still is the route of access from the east on Interstate 80, was first explored by my great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt,” Mitt Romney cheerfully writes in “Turnaround,” the airport bookstore leadership manual he wrote in 2004 while governor of Massachusetts.

“He had worked a road up along ‘Big Canyon Creek’ as an act of speculation when his crop failed in the summer of 1849. He charged tolls to prospectors making their way to California at the height of the Gold Rush and even had a Pony Express station commissioned along his pass.”

Sounds pretty cheerful, doesn't it? But what's missing is Parley Pratt, polygamist, who was accused of marrying an already married and not divorced woman, who was shot dead in Arkansas, and whose death probably had a strong hand in the lurid story of the Mormon's massacre of the Fancher party from Arkansas.

Romney doesn’t add — and why should he? — that Pratt was murdered in 1857, by the husband of a woman he took as one of his “plural wives.” (His ninth.) Pratt was in San Francisco proselytizing and promoting polygamy. The woman converted and eloped with Pratt, then pretended to renounce Mormonism in order to get her children from her parents, where her estranged husband had sent them. The husband tracked Pratt from California to Arkansas, and shot him dead when it became clear that he could not have Pratt jailed. This incident contributed to the general sense of apocalyptic paranoia among the Mormon community that led to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which Mormon settlers — acting, according to some, on orders from Brigham Young — killed an entire wagon train of families on their way to California. There were rumors, before the Mormon militia attacked the wagon train, that Pratt’s killer was among the mostly wealthy Arkansans in the train. The Mormons attempted to blame the murder of children and women on Indians, though Mark Twain and others believed that the “Indians” were likely Mormons in war paint. (Archaeological evidence — dug up, embarrassingly, during preparations for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics — supports that theory.)

The massacre is the bloodiest and most disturbing moment in Mormon Church history, and also one of the rare moments in the 19th century when the Mormons were the perpetrators and not the victims of violence.

Here's what wikipedia says about it.

http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plink&id=14429