By Jon Meacham Monday, Oct. 08, 2012
The sermon that followed was titled "America's Destiny." Its preacher was Marion G. Romney, a member of the Mormon elite and cousin of former Michigan governor George Romney and of Mitt Romney. The Salt Lake address and a follow-up speech the next spring at Brigham Young University neatly captured the Mormon vision of America's special role in sacred and secular history--a vision that greatly expands the traditional Protestant view of America as a new promised land.
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