Posted on 11/27/2007 10:47:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Do you have some evidence to that effect that you’d like to offer? If you have some compelling evidence I’ll ask the mods to remove my post.
Bump! Spread the word.
So, Romney who opposed such an amendment in his own state is now bashing others for not supporting it on the federal level. Sorry Mitt, you were either lying now, or you were lying then. Either way, you’re a liar, and not a very good one at that.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/#homo_marriage
But, but, he threw money at them in 2004. The candidates were also told not campaign on the marriage amendment initiative. Also, at least one of the Republican candidates was a gay activist.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931571/posts?page=10#4
Right there in black and white...
And pink and purple...
Angered that his name appeared on a press release touting a gay pride parade, Governor Mitt Romney moved yesterday to curtail the activities of a 14-year-old advisory commission on gay and lesbian youth.
The commission chairwoman, Kathleen M. Henry, said she was called yesterday by Beth Myers, the governor's chief of staff, who told her that the governor planned to issue an executive order ''revoking our existence" and creating another youth commission whose purview would be all of the state's youth, not just gays and lesbians. The commission would have all new members, she said.
But a few hours later, Myers called again, Henry said, and said the governor had switched course.
''He changed his mind," said Henry, who heads a 14-member panel. ''We inundated them with outrage. It just plumed everywhere." Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom insisted that the governor's office received no such calls from gay rights activists, but opted against abolishing the commission because ''the governor thought that was too harsh."
''Instead, we're directing the commission not to use taxpayer money for parades and parties and to refocus their resources on counseling and the development of strategies for the prevention of violence and suicide," Fehrnstrom said. ''That is in keeping with the original mission of the commission."
Commission backers insisted that Romney's ban on use of taxpayer money for parades was hollow because private money pays for those events.
The commission was created by Governor William Weld(Weld backs Mitt) in 1992 to help gay and lesbian youths in school, where they face increased risk of victimization, harassment, and discrimination. The commission's work focuses primarily on violence and suicide prevention. A youth committee also organizes an annual youth pride parade. The 12th annual parade will take place tomorrow.
Administration sources said Romney's aides were angered by an ''unauthorized" news release issued by the commission March 27 announcing this weekend's Youth Pride parade. The release, which described the celebration of ''gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth and their supporters," went out on official state stationery, with the names of Romney and Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey appearing with the names of the commission chairwoman and vice chair.
Conservative activist Brian Camenker said he met with Romney aides last week, showing them photos from last year's parade, and urged them to abolish the panel.
''Last year [at the parade] they had boys in fishnet stockings and high heels parading down Boylston Street," Camenker said. ''They had boys dressed as women embracing. We presented stuff, and they were visibly sickened by what they saw. I said, basically, this group has to go. It's so manifestly destructive to kids that you have to get rid of it. They said they'd do something."
Allowing the commission to remain in existence demonstrates ''pure cowardice on the governor's part," he said. ''This shows that Romney probably doesn't have what it takes to run the country if he can't even make a decision about this."
If Romney is saying Fred’s against defense of marriage, he is a liar. Fred voted YES on the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act. Where the rubber met the road, Fred has proven himself.
Well said.
He has spent everything he has gotten from supporters plus and equal amount of his own money on just these first few states.
What will he do after that? The only way he places is by saturating the market, not because of his ideas and such. There are another 45+ states to go.
Does he keep using his own cash, and if so, how will that play to the masses. Will it be seen as a rich man trying to buy the highest office in the land?
Will he be willing to squander his fortune on a potentially futile effort? If so, what does it say about his ability to manage finical dealings.
All very interesting.
Yeah, what you said!
What price, the Presidency? What say you, America?
Rasmussen today has that non-existent candidate Romney’s brochure didn’t mention now holding the outright lead in Iowa.
www.rasmussenreports.com
Oh “Shenna”, again you prove love is blind...
...and you can’t spell.
Sorry, I was typing through the laughter...
Damn, I was right, despite misspelling your name...
Love is very blind indeed.
Maybe you will once again become a conservative after treatment...
“You know, if being against homosexual marriage is one of your largest reasons for going to cacauses in January, you won’t be voting for Romney.”
Yes, but this is aimed towards undecideds who may, when voting for their nominee, find that this brochure is the only thing that stands out in their minds...
I’m going to say something heretical here : I’m glad this has been such a long campaign season. Who the candidates really are is starting to come out, and the luster is fading fast. There was a time Romney really wowed me. Now I think he’s a con-man angling more for post-presidency prestige than an actual desire to lead this nation.
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