Because he's both religious and right-winged, of course. There is zero empathy among either types.

This isn't an attack on Mitt Romney for what his ancestors did, this is an attack on Mitt Romney for what he does. It's a crime and a sin to not learn from the suffering of your ancestors; like the West Bank settlers who talk in eliminationist rhetoric about the Palestinians, Mitt Romney refuses to learn the lesson of compassion from his forebears. Mitt Romney's family was persecuted and chased from the country for practicing thier form of marriage. The default position of anyone who is a descendent of Mormon polygamists (as I am0 should be that the government should stay the hell out of people's private lives. Mormon polygamy was the "gay marriage" of the 19th century; a political football fed by hysterical intolerance. How Mormons, in their desperate need for acceptance, forgot the lessons of that bigotry and have now become the bigots is where it all went wrong. Mormons believe (they still do, theologically) that plural marriage is god's plan. The government persecuted them for that. Now, gay people, and many of the churches they attend, hold that marriage for them is god's plan. But it is the descendents of the once persecuted, like Romney, who are leading the charge to keep their rights from them. Why can't Mormons learn from their history and stand up for the right of the individual to decide who they wish to marry, instead of the state? They once got this, and now they do not. Mitt Romney dismisses what his ancestors fought for, and betrays their memory.