Mitt Romney and family
During the 2008 presidential race, a bogus Christmas card “from the Romney family,” containing controversial quotes from the Book of Mormon, found its way into the mailboxes of South Carolina Republicans. Holiday greetingsappeared positive, with the greeting reading, “We wish you and your family a happy holiday season and a joyful New Year,” but the foul play from the covert authors was far from merry. The card included Book of Mormon passages designed to make conservative Christian voters in the state feel uncomfortable with the Mormon candidate. One quote said that God had multiple wives, while anotherstressed that the Virgin Mary was “exceedingly fair and white.” Neither the Romney family nor the Boston Massachusetts Temple cited on the card had anything to do with the mailing.