The Hill News

Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney was asked Monday on the campaign trail whether he agreed with a former teaching of the Mormon Church that said interracial marriage was a sin.

The moment - described by reporters at the event outside Green Bay, Wisc. as terse - was prompted by a question by Bret Hatch, a 28-year-old Ron Paul supporter, according to the Washington Post.

Hatch began by asking if Romney agreed with the a verse from Moses in the Book of Mormon, but the former Massachusetts governor interrupted him when he began reading the passage.

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