COMMENCEMENT

Romney Talks Faith, Marriage

At Liberty University commencement speech.

Marriage is an “enduring institution,” Mitt Romney said in his speech at Liberty University on Saturday, a “relationship between one man and one woman.” Romney’s much-anticipated speech at the school leaned heavily on themes of Christian faith—even on a campus where the school paper wrote, “Mitt Romney was announced as Liberty’s 39th commencement speaker, great—but he is a Mormon.” In his speech, Romney focused on wooing evangelical conservatives, and tied what he saw as Christian values to American success. Romney told the graduates, “Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition, with its vision of the goodness and possibilities of every life.”