Romney Calls Global Body a 'Failure' (Withdraw from U.N. and form new coalition)

Associated Press ^ | 18 October 2007 | Jim Davenport

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The user-added subtitle ("withdraw from UN") of this thread is misleading.

Romney is not proposing that the US withdraw from the UN; only the UN Human Rights Council. That's an important distinction, and IMHO, any user additions to the title ought to reflect it.

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I don’t know if anyone else noticed but the headline on this post is a flat out lie.

The AP headline is fine; it's the user-added subtitle in the parentheses that's misleading. I've informed the moderator.

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What in the world does the 2001 Boston gay pride parade have to do with the UN?

I wish people would stay on topic.

[dynachrome]

“2001 Boston gay pride parade have to do with the UN?”
Just a side argument about Romney.

[curiosity]

While I'm not thrilled with it, on it's face the flier isn't that bad.

All it does is:

1) Wish gays a happy day
2) Says they should have equal rights.

As to the first point, I don't see how wishing anyone a happy day can be all that bad. As to the second point, I don't object to gays having the same rights under the law as everyone else (they already did before the Goodridge decision).

That being said, I think the second point could be interpreted as implying that they don't have equal rights and that the signers of the flier want to give them some privileges they don't have. That's why I'm not thrilled with it, and wouldn't sign it if I were in Romney's position. But whether you want to interpret the flier that way is pretty subjective, and hence doesn't seem all that important, especially in light of Mitt's efforts while governor to amend the constitution to support traditional marriage. He ultimately failed on that front, but no one can deny he fought the good fight, and fought hard.