Romney's family tree contains six polygamous men with forty-one wives.     Mitt Romney's family became wealthy when they sued Mexico after using it as a safe haven to flee polygamy laws.    tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2012/10/17/mitt-romneys-family-became-w...
  

The Portrait that emerges is that  Mitt became active in the church around 1977 and is not only a bishop in the LDS church but today is a High Priest of the highest echelon (the “order of Melchizedek”) within that religion .

Women began proposing changes that would include them more in the life of the church.... like letting women speak after men in church to putting baby changing tables in men’s bathrooms . Ann Romney was not considered to be sympathetic to the agitation of liberal women ...she was invited to social events sponsored by Exponent II but did not attend. She was, in the words of one member, understood to be “not that kind of woman

Mormons do not have paid full-time clergy and only Members in good standing take turns serving in leadership roles performing ecclesiastical duties on top of career and family responsibilities. But a dichotomy exists within the Mormon Church, which holds that one is either in or out; there is little or no tolerance for those, like so-called cafeteria Catholics, who pick and choose what doctrines to follow and that's an important message. Mormon doctrine—including many concepts, such as the belief that Jesus will rule from Missouri in his Second Coming.

To some church members Romney was the product of a hidebound, patriarchal Mormon culture, inflexible and insensitive in delicate situations and dismissive of those who didn’t share his perspective. Women began proposing changes that would include them more in the life of the church. In the end, the group came up with some 70 suggestions—from letting women speak after men in church to putting changing tables for babies in men’s bathrooms but Ann Romney was not considered to be sympathetic to the agitation of liberal women within the stake. She was invited to social events sponsored by Exponent II but did not attend. She was, in the words of one member, understood to be “not that kind of woman.”

(reference Vanity Fair)