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If the article mentioned below is to be believed then his folks did practice polygamy. His views are different.
Mitt Romney's Mormonism
By:
Robert M. Bowman Jr.
Copyright © 2011 Institute for Religious Research
However, the mere label Mormon does not really tell us very much about Romney as an individual. Any discussion of the issue should proceed from a broad understanding of Romney's background in Mormonism.
Mitt Romney's great-great-grandfather was Parley Pratt, a Mormon apostle who had twelve wives. His great-grandparents were polygamous Mormons who moved to Mexico because of U.S. anti-polygamy laws.
Miles Park Romney had five wives—including one taken in 1897, more than six years after the "Manifesto" supposedly announcing a ban on plural marriage in the LDS Church.[1] The historical evidence shows clearly that Miles was not an anomaly. LDS Church founder Joseph Smith had himself secretly practiced polygamy, and his successor Brigham Young led the way in making it a common practice in territorial Utah. Many Mormons, including Wilford Woodruff, the LDS Church President who issued the Manifesto, continued to take additional wives years after the Manifesto. Romney's father, George Romney, was born in 1907 in Chihuahua, Mexico, to monogamous parents, and moved with them to the United States in 1912. George went on to become governor of Michigan (1963-69) and the head of HUD under Richard Nixon (1969-73). During his retirement years, George Romney held the offices of patriarch and regional representative of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church.
Mormons in Transition - Mitt Romney's Mormonism
However, it maybe noted that the article went further which is of relevance
Mitt Romney's Mormonism is not his great-grandfather's Mormonism. In recent years, Mitt has occasionally expressed contempt for the practice of polygamy and pointed out that Mormons no longer practice it, but he has also joked that as a Mormon he believed "that marriage should be between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman."[2] Ironically, as his wife Ann pointed out on the presidential campaign trail in 2007, Mitt was one of the few Republican presidential candidates at the time who had had only one wife—since Rudy Giuliani had been married three times and John McCain, the eventual Republican nominee, had been married twice. By contrast, all of the major Republican candidates for the 2012 nomination have been married only once except for Newt Gingrich, who has been married three times.