Thursday, January 11, 2007
... to a Three Ring Circus? Chris Dodd, a senator from Connecticut, announced today that he would run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. It is not a big surprise, as he has been mulling the decision publicly for nearly a year now. Last year, an article pointed out that if Dodd won the Presidency, we would have a Mormon First Lady. Dodd, a Catholic, is married to Jackie Clegg, a Mormon from Utah and a former executive at the Export-Import Bank.
The article then went on to relate the following anecdote from Utah Senator Bob Bennett: Speaking at a recent gala dinner of the Brigham Young University Management Society in the Georgetown University Conference Center, Bennett said a tongue-in-cheek Dodd told him, "At Bob Jones University, we are now a two-cult family."
Dodd was apparently referring to the fact that some evangelical Christians view both Mormonism and Catholicism as cults. Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian school in South Carolina, has attracted criticism for past hostility to some denominations and to interracial dating. Despite the lack of comment from Bennett or Dodd camps, a Salt Lake Tribune writer took the hypotheticals one step further (albeit parenthetically): Easy polygamy joke of the day: Who knows when there might be a
Mormon Second Lady or Third Lady?
I guess that would require three rings.
posted by Mark # 7:49 PM 
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