Posted on 05/24/2007 4:59:50 PM PDT by f150sound
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday that his opposition to same-sex marriage should not be interpreted as intolerance of gays, who served in his administration when he was Massachusetts governor.
In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Romney elaborated on comments he made during a campaign event dubbed "Ask Mitt Anything" in which an audience member questioned whether pastors should preach that homosexuality is a sin. Romney said the government shouldn't tell pastors what they can say.
Afterward, Romney said he would not preach the same message.
"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," the former governor said in the AP interview.
Our next President of the United States is not anti-Gay. Wow. I would believe that President Bush was not anti-Gay too. Who does not believe the Bible when it says hate the sin but not the sinner. Sounds like not only will he make the best President, he follows the Bible pretty closely.
I get it.
I just worry for them. I honestly believe that their lifestyle will condemn them to hell.
But they are good people. One is an ex Marine.
This is really hard for me.
He didn’t say that at all. He said he wouldn’t tell a pastor what to say. Romney has very strong moral opinions. Have you ever listened to him?
That flier was passed out at a gay pride parade in Boston in 03.
Go read this site for more Romney info.
He is the one rino who seems to have a great ability of pulling the wool over voters’ eyes.
They've always been here, they'll always be here. Anywhere there are human beings, there are going to be homosexuals. The trick is to uphold the biblical (and therefore probably pretty wise) commendation that homosexuality be discouraged because it's destructive to civilization. How many confused, loose kids and young adults think they're gay today not because they are, but because it's ... well, shocking, hip, because no matter what we pretend, it's not normal?? Unlike days when gays were better advised to just keep it to themselves.
In photos you might see posted here and there, take a look at the faces of the freak-costumed gays in the gay parades. They look desolate and desperate.
I’m with you, VegasBaby. I’m sure there are gays who are good Republicans and good Americans. The VP’s daughter is probably one of them.
"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"
He says flat out he thinks running for a secular position means keeping your views on morality to yourself.
His record in MA is that he thought the state's moral opinions, and not his own, ought to determine his conduct and policies as governor.
In other words, he thinks public office means not having a morality, but outsourcing it, or keeping it bland and uncommitted to avoid offending anybody.
No one with that attitude can *lead* on anything.
Try determining who should be the next justice of the supreme court on the basis of "separation of morality and state".
He has been neutered by multiculturalists, because he does not have the personal philosophic confidence to stand up to their inane nonsense.
The leader of the entire conservative movement - which is what a Republican presidential nominee becomes - has to do a heck of a lot better than that. He isn't running for MA governor anymore.
Of course not, I was explaining why campaigns are not as blunt and plain spoken as they were in America’s past.
It is very hard to be put in that position. We can all understnad how it is. All I can suggest is pray for them. It really does work miracles!
Most of us do worry about homosexuals we know. We pray for them for their souls and we pray for them due to the health issues they expose themselves to. That is the loving thing to do, it doesn’t even come close to hate.
Mighty fine phraseology, there!
I like Mitt’s philosophy. He has a very definite opinion about how far the purview of government should reach....thereby giving individuals more freedom and reducing the size and scope of government.
He is very strong on individual rights.
I'm living proof of that!
LOL! Ok, wow I really drove that one over the cliff, didn't I?...sorry!
Plain spoken...Remember, McPainintheass' Straight Talk Express? Whadda joke!!!
How is being black or a woman the same as engaging in aberrant behavior?
Well, well, well, thank you for raising an interesting point! According to the vibe I'm getting in this thread, Dick Cheney would make a horrid president!!! He's obviously not anti-gay unless those photos I saw of him and his wife lovingly holding their new grandchild (who's mother happens to be a LESBIAN) yesterday were a total joke. Maybe people would be much happier if the Cheneys were to cut off all association with their daughter and her demon child! /sarcasm
The logical conclusion anyone can draw is that he would have no problem supporting pro gay policies. The logical next step to coming out and saying you're not anti-gay is capitulating to the gay agenda because if you're not anti-gay, why would you discriminate?
Your comments are so rooted in ignorance of real-life politics I don't know how to begin responding. Suffice to say that your "logical conclusion" is on its face illogical. You can't name a single viable candidate who would say "I'm anti-gay" in this day and age. I defy you to name such a candidate. The closest you could probably get to that is Alan Keyes, and he's neither a viable candidate nor is running this time around.
At least you would have been honest if you had just left your anti-Romney sneer at calling him a "snake oil cultist." But you didn't. Now, you just seem like a doofus.
The individual's right to break convention and march down the street as a gay minor, okay, I can see that, and grudgingly agree. It's society's job to discourage homosexuality, not government. BUT ...
Romney used the government to endorse a Gay Youth Pride event. Any politician who believes that the government has a role in the declared sexual orientation of minors, isn't a Republican.
could he say he’s pro-hetero? :)
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