Posted on 05/13/2006 7:16:23 PM PDT by ProCivitas
Gay youth panel survives, sort of By Boston Herald editorial staff Saturday, May 13, 2006
As a Republican from Massachusetts it’s true Mitt Romney has to go an awfully long way to prove his conservative stripes.
But the governor won’t win any style points for his latest effort, when he apparently set out to abolish the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.
The administration was miffed that the panel issued a press release with the governor’s name on it, hyping today’s Youth Pride event in Boston, which is paid for with private funds but organized in part by the commission.
Needless to say, Romney does not want his name linked to an event emceed by a “drag king.” And you can’t really blame him. As is often the case with these commissions, it seems they’ve wandered far afield of their original mission - working with state agencies to reduce incidents of violence and suicide among gay and lesbian youth.
But the administration dealt with this bit of insubordination in the clumsiest of fashions. First mistake was taking policy advice from the Article 8 Alliance, whose claim to fame is a ridiculous effort to fire the justices who ruled gay marriage in Massachusetts to be legal. Romney’s chief of staff then called the commission chairwoman on Thursday and told her the panel was kaput. She called back a few hours later to say never mind.
Romney’s spokesman said the governor felt eliminating the commission was too harsh. But he took the panel to task for sending out the release, and warned that it must remain focused on its original mission.
That last part would be fine and dandy - and we wouldn’t question their motives - had the administration been paying attention to any of this over the past three years. Ah, but that’s just it. Someone would have had to be paying attention.
On the bright side, the Article 8 folks are pro-family and a good group, and this piece suggests that Romney was at least sort of listening to them. He should have followed through and ended this taxpayer-funded vile crap, begun during Bill Weld's tenure.
Ah! I thirst to see real statesmen (and stateswomen) stand up for truth and natural law, no namby pambying/bootlicking.
And the funny thing is, they'd win elections that way, too.
(list, I guess.)
Yes, list.
:-)
P.S. Got your email.
Nice going Mitt. Too little too late, as usual.
Kind of makes you wonder who "they" are going to choose as the candidate.
I hope it is not Romney. It'd be worse than Bob Dole.
He must have learned how to flip-flop from his mentor, John F. Kerry.
As for concerns about harrassment of the sexually confused, that's a matter of law enforcement, and schools using disciplinary measures to uphold civility standards and the law. More students in general should be advised of their rights to effective legal recourse if harrassed, threatened, or attacked.
Romney is a "main street" republican. A moderate (a RINO). We can see by that action that he could do any number of things via executive order but won't.
This story needs to be faxed to GOP Headquarters in Iowa, NH and SC...
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