In an interview with CNN, North Carolina State Representative Alma Adams says Romney will have trouble appealing to social conservatives in that state because of the polygamist past of the LDS church. She has since apologized. North Carolina recently voted to ban same-sex marriage.
Via Buzzfeed:
"If they look at that awful ballot amendment, and they compare that with his faith, I don't think people will be OK with it," Adams said. "From what I understand about the Mormon faith you can have multiple wives. That's sort of a contradiction. There are questions about who Romney is and what he believes in terms of that particular issue."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stopped practicing polygamy in 1890, and the practice is considered sinful in modern Mormonism. Polygamists are excommunicated from the Mormon Church.
In 2007, Romney said in an interview that he couldn't "imagine anything more awful than polygamy."
Adams's comments represent the second time in the past month that a Democrat has invoked polygamy in discussing Romney. In April, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer went out of his way in an interview to point out that Romney's father was "born on a polygamy commune in Mexico.” The elder Romney was born in a Mexican settlement founded by Mormon polygamists in the 19th century, but he was in a monogamous marriage.
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Then we have Barack Obama's father and grandfather and great-grandfather who were polygamous, and Barack's father abandoned his wife and child. Which candidate's family abused polygamy?