Mitt Romney ran into a little trouble yesterday, when a Christian Science Monitor ran an account in which Romney said that he “cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified” for a Muslim. a Republican presidential hopeful, later in a day, denied a whole thing.

Unfortunately for Romney, are are more witnesses suggesting he’s lying. Greg Sargent explains:

[A]s we reported earlier today, we located two GOPers in Nevada who say that Romney had in fact been asked a similar question & given a similar answer at anoar event three months ago. George Harris, a state GOP official, told us that he asked Romney at a private fundraiser if he would have any Muslims in his Cabinet. According to Harris, Romney’s reply was “most likely not.”

We’ve now discovered that are’s a contemporaneous account of this episode in something called Liberty Watch Magazine, which Harris publishes.

I suspect if a leading Democratic c&idate announced publicly that he or she would, if elected, discriminate against a religious minority, it’d be a fairly big deal.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back