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See link below for the news article. I think adoption is great, and the Huntsmans are doing a wonderful thing, but two quotes in the article attributed to Gov. Huntsman struck me as odd:

And, Huntsman said, he hopes that as Asha "becomes American, she will also be able to maintain some of the Hindu values that were part of her first year of life."

The family donated $10,000 to the orphanage, he said, and also promised the [Catholic] sisters in charge [of the orphanage] that they would be invited to attend Asha's wedding.

First, does Huntsman really hope that (presumably) an active LDS Utah girl will "maintain some of [her] Hindu values that were part of her first year of life"?

Second, did Huntsman promise to invite the Catholic nuns to the little girl's wedding, while at the same time expecting that the girl will marry in the LDS temple, where the nuns cannot enter?

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650216541,00.html

Rollo Tomasi wrote:First, does Huntsman really hope that (presumably) an active LDS Utah girl will "maintain some of [her] Hindu values that were part of her first year of life"?

Second, did Huntsman promise to invite the Catholic nuns to the little girl's wedding, while at the same time expecting that the girl will marry in the LDS temple, where the nuns cannot enter?

Part one is possible, but I agree, part two is VERY problematic.

It sounds like a political statement that can easily be ignored as time passes.

[apologetic mode on]The nuns are perfectly free to choose to join the church and get a temple recommend before the daughter gets married. If they don't choose to do that, it's their problem.[/apologetic mode off]

I'm inclined to give the guy a break. He just adopted a child, and we should be happy that this little girl now has a loving family to take care of her.