Romney Strikes Rare Notes of Faith in Aurora Speech

At CNN, Eric Marrapodi and Halimah Abdullah describe Mitt Romney’s speech on Friday as a return “to his roots of faith in the face of a national tragedy.” Only hours after the Colorado movie theater shootings, Romney offered “a rare public expression of faith for the candidate who has kept much of his faith private,” write Marrapodi and Abdullah. “Romney, who was the head of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Boston, quoted heavily from the Bible and the Book of Mormon as he stood before a small crowd in New Hampshire.”

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