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Posted: 7:42 AM- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he can't imagine "anything more awful" than polygamy.
The practice was adopted by Romney's Mormon faith in the 19th century, but abandoned more than a century ago. Today, the LDS Church today condemns plural marriage and excommunicates members who practice it.
Romney, former Massachusetts governor and onetime head of the Utah Winter Games, makes his comments in an CBS News interview to be aired on KUTV Channel 2 this Sunday at 6 p.m.
"I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image anything more awful than polygamy," Romney told 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace.
During the interview, Romney also blasts President Bush's foreign policy -- saying that his fellow Republicans in the Bush White House made mistakes in Iraq that the country is still paying for.
But Romney also says Bush isn't the only one to blame.
"He's the person where the buck stops, but it goes through the secretary of defense and the planning agencies, the Department of State - it's the whole administration," Romney says. "They made mistakes . . . and we're paying for those mistakes."
Romney also says the president's "surge" policy of putting additional troops into Iraq deserves a chance to work.