Mitt's honesty in question once again...
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:12 am
From the "Huffington Post":
("Mitt Romney 'Binders Full Of Women' Claim Misleads," by Laura Bassett, "Huffington Post," 17 October 2012, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/1 ... more257198)
From the LDS lesson manual 'Primary 2: Choose The Right'
President of the Church, T. Monson in 2008:
and again in 2011:
and this:
Dallin H. Oaks reckons:
According to Elder Richard L Evans:
During the last debate was your potential President, Mitt Romney being 'honest' in terms of how his Church Leaders would define 'honesty'?
"Mitt Romney raised eyebrows during the presidential debate Tuesday night when he claimed that as governor of Massachusetts, he had been so dismayed at the lack of female cabinet candidates that he sent women's groups out to find them.
"'I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks?" and they brought us whole binders full of women,' he said.
"In fact, Romney did not direct women's groups to bring him female candidates, 'Boston Pheonix' reporter David Bernstein points out. A non-partisan collaboration of women’s groups called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project (MassGAP) was responsible for the effort in 2002, when the group's leaders realized that women held only 30% of the top appointed positions in the state.
"Romney boasted that during his term as governor, Massachusetts had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America. 'Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort,' he said.
"This statement, too, is misleading. While 42% of Romney’s appointments during his first 2-1/2 years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined to 27.6% during his full tenure as governor, according to a 2007 MassGAP study."
("Mitt Romney 'Binders Full Of Women' Claim Misleads," by Laura Bassett, "Huffington Post," 17 October 2012, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/1 ... more257198)
From the LDS lesson manual 'Primary 2: Choose The Right'
(emphasis mine)Explain that telling the truth is part of being honest. When we tell the truth, we tell about things exactly as they happened.
President of the Church, T. Monson in 2008:
May we be men and women of honesty and integrity in everything we do.
and again in 2011:
May we be examples of honesty and integrity wherever we go and in whatever we do.
and this:
“A Latter-day Saint young man lives as he teaches and as he believes. He is honest with others. He is honest with himself. He is honest with God. He is honest by habit and as a matter of course."
Dallin H. Oaks reckons:
A lie is not always told in so many words. It may be a creature of concealment or a misrepresentation by action or a half-truth.
According to Elder Richard L Evans:
Truth or untruth is not always altogether a matter of literal language, but often of implication, of inflection, of innuendo, of subtle suggestion. A clever person intent on being untruthful can give a false impression, even when his literal words can little be called into question. ["The Spoken Word," Improvement Era (November 1961), p. 854]
During the last debate was your potential President, Mitt Romney being 'honest' in terms of how his Church Leaders would define 'honesty'?