Translating what Mitt Romney means — and when — is almost as challenging as parsing out a George W. Bush screed.

Listen to what America’s best-known Mormon said in a recent “Ask Mitt Anything” convocation in Florida.

Romney would not say whether he thought homosexuality was immoral.

Suffice it to say that Romney’s answer to the question of whether homosexuality is immoral was not a simple, “No.”

“I don’t think that a person who’s running for a secular position as I am should talk about or engage in discussions of what they in their personal faith or their personal beliefs is immoral or not immoral.”

But suffice it to say the answer to the question was not a simple, “No.”

And here’s a clue why:

“What you look for in a leader is someone who will welcome and treat with respect people who made different choices and have different beliefs in their lives and have differences. I have nothing but respect and feelings of tolerance for people with differences from myself and feel that way with regards to those who are gay.”

Got it. Romney believes that being gay is a “choice” and a “belief,” not a physiological state.

His views on immigration are equally enlightening. Apparently, he thinks the only immigrants are Mexicans. And welfare-seeking, criminal Mexicans at that.

“I don’t think that we’re going to round up 11 or 12 or however many million people and bus them out of the country. That’s not what I’m talking about,” Romney said. “Those who committed felonies, of course, would be deported. Those who require government assistance to stay here would surely need to get off government assistance and ultimately could not remain here on government assistance.”

Put them on a bus, eh? I hope he wasn’t talking about the immigrants I see a lot of down this way: Haitians.

Romney’s little Mormon mind isn’t nearly as inscrutable as he would have us believe. Maybe the average Republican would miss these clues to his true world-view but those of us on this team just aren’t feeling him.