Thompson Woos 'Values Voters'

In a speech to 2,000 conservative evangelicals at the Family Research Council's "Values Voters Summit" in Washington, Republican Fred Thompson made some headway with conservative Christians who've been left uninspired during the desultory days of his first month on the presidential campaign trail.

Thompson used personal experience to court them, with references to his own plan to pray and to what he characterized as the life-changing experience of seeing a sonogram of his unborn daughter.

Late in his speech, Thompson said he's been asked what he'd do in his first 100 days as president. His answer, he said, is "I don't really know—it would depend on the circumstances."

"But," he said, "I know what I would do the first hour: Go into the Oval Office, close the door, and pray for the wisdom to do what was right." The crowd was quickly on its feet, warmly applauding; it was his best-received sentiment of the day.

Earlier, when laying out his antiabortion bona fides, Thompson focused, emotionally at times, on his role as a father, including the "ultimate tragedy" of the death of an adult daughter from his first marriage and the "ultimate blessing" of the birth of a child.

Thompson, who has two young children with his second wife, told the audience that his political record and his "head" have always been against abortion, but it took seeing the first sonogram of his now 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, to transform him.

His biggest competition for conservative support, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, was scheduled to address the evangelicals tonight. In prepared remarks, he said that " the family is a vital economic unit, the foundation of our nation. And it is the strength of this nation's families that ultimately determines America's strength in the family of nations." Rudy Giuliani, who is leading national GOP presidential preference polls--and supports legal abortion and opposes a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage--was to enter the lion's den Saturday.

All the GOP candidates accepted invitations to speak to the evangelicals. The results of a straw poll of attendees and online voters will be announced Saturday.

It's obvious to every sane person that Romney signed the questionaire in question.

Here's a few more things that obviously came from his mouth, his pen, and his administration:

Romney tries to flank Ted Kennedy on the left

Read Romney's letter to Log Cabin Club (Adobe Acrobat format)

You'll notice in that link that Romney clearly says that he will do more for the radical gay agenda than Uncle Teddy. He promises to make their agenda "mainstream." And yes, he signed it.

On March 27, 2006, Romney's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth issued a statement on Romney's Governor's Commission letterhead stating, "There's no place like Youth Pride….In celebration of their lives and diversity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) youth and their supporters [mostly adult homosexuals] will gather by the thousands to kick off Massachusetts' 12th annual Youth Pride on Saturday, May 13th at noon on Boston Common."

Press release from Governor's office on this event

Read this if you really want to see what Romney's administration condoned in the public schools. Or at least one small part of it.

Etc.

The Safe Schools Program for Gay & Lesbian Students
"Outright" pamphlet distributed to kids
How to start a Gay/Straight Alliance at school
Gay/Straight Alliance Student Guide
Gay/Straight Alliance resources page

Here's what happens to you in Massachusetts if you oppose this agenda.

"2005 - The Little Black Book - Queer in the 21st Century"

The best adoptive parents in Romney's Massachusetts, just last year:

The Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS), run by the Romney administration, honored a homosexual "married" couple (two men) as their adoptive "Parents of the Year" for 2006. The DSS has gained a reputation for being aggressively pro-homosexual over recent years. This incident sparked outrage across the country, but to our knowledge no policies or personnel at DSS were changed as a result. - Waltham Daily News Tribune, 8/4/2006

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