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Pro-Gay Romney Upsets Family Values Leader
Christian Post ^ | 12/30/2007 | Michelle Vu

Posted on 12/30/2007 9:31:41 AM PST by Ol' Sparky

WASHINGTON – A prominent pro-family leader is urging fellow conservatives to withdraw their support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over his recent expressed support for a “sexual orientation” non-discrimination law.

Romney during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” said he supports the contentious Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which adds “sexual orientation” to a list of federally protected classes that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

The bill upsets conservative leaders because it grants special protection to employees based on their “actual or perceived” sexual orientation. Moreover, it would force Christian organizations that oppose homosexuality to hire gay employees.

“Mitt Romney’s Christmas present to the homosexual lobby disqualifies him as a pro-family leader,” said Peter LaBarbera, longtime pro-family advocate and founder of the Republicans For Family Values website.

“Laws that treat homosexuality as a civil rights are being used to promote homosexual ‘marriage,’ same-sex adoption and pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren,” he said. “These same laws pose a direct threat to the freedom of faith-minded citizens and organizations to act on their religious belief that homosexual behavior is wrong.”

The former Massachusetts governor responded on “Meet the Press” that ENDA “makes sense” at the state level. But LaBarbera warns that if Romney “openly” promotes homosexual agenda at the state level then he cannot be trusted at the federal level.

He pointed out that the state’s “sexual orientation” nondiscrimination law laid the groundwork for Massachusetts legalizing gay “marriage” – the first in the country to do so.

Moreover, the ENDA-like law forced Boston’s Catholic Charities to shut down its century-old adoption agency because it refused to place children in gay households against Catholic teaching.

“Given Romney’s extensive pro-homosexual record and willingness now to depart from principle on this crucial issue, should we trust a ‘President Romney’ not to reverse course again on federal pro-homosexual laws such as ‘Hate Crimes’ and ENDA?” LaBarbera posed.

In addition to the homosexuality agenda, pro-family leaders have also had reservations on Romney’s commitment to the abortion issue, which he only recently said he was against.

Well-known conservative leaders who have endorsed Romney include Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation; Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition; Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice; and Mark DeMoss of the PR agency DeMoss Pond.

“Now some pro-family leaders – who have raised millions of dollars over the years opposing ‘gay’ activism – will need to explain how they can go on supporting an openly pro-homosexual-agenda candidate,” LaBarbera said.

The federal ENDA bill is opposed by Christian heavyweights such as Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. of High Impact Leadership Coalition, Alan Sears of Alliance Defense Fund, the Rev. Rick Scarborough of Vision America, and Colin A. Hanna of Let Freedom Ring.

President George W. Bush has also indicated he intends to veto the bill if it makes it to his desk.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: catholiccharities; enda; homosexualagenda; labarbera; rino; romney; romneytruthfile
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This lying, flip-flopping RINO should be every bit as unacceptable to social conservatives as Giuliani is.
1 posted on 12/30/2007 9:31:44 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky

Give Mitt time, he’ll change his position.


2 posted on 12/30/2007 9:32:22 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Congratulations Brett Favre! All-time NFL leader in career passing yards)
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To: Ol' Sparky
Why doesn’t Mitt understand the proper moral stance on such issues?

I wonder what the Mormon church thinks about such things...

3 posted on 12/30/2007 9:34:48 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: Ol' Sparky

What do you expect from a Massachusetts’s Rhino? Those nondiscrimination laws have nothing to do with reasonable policy and represent just another step towards silencing all who disagree with the deprived, unnatural lifestyle and behavior. We see it in Canada and even the beginnings in CA. Homosexuals and other sexual deviants are not happen to be left alone in the privacy of their own homes with their sexual desires. They want to march into the schools and force feed our children and intimidate the majority who disagree with them into submission. This is not civil rights this is an infection, an on going invasion trying to re mold the whole of society.

Even liberals should be alarmed but they spend too much time wearing their gay friends on their sleeves like trinkets. As if they were the latest piercing or tatoo fad. I suppose they can feel good about themselves for God knows one can not have sex in the privacy of their own home unless everyone endorses it and our children are trained in it. Live and let live is not acceptable when your goal is the right to pick up dates and have sex in restrooms and public parks. They are not satisfied to live in their own depravity for like the darkness it desires to create more of itself in the world.


4 posted on 12/30/2007 9:44:57 AM PST by Maelstorm (Check out www.Fredrepublic.com)
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To: ConservativeMind

I wonder what the Mormon church thinks about such things...
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They flip-flop a bit too.


5 posted on 12/30/2007 9:45:52 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Ol' Sparky
>>>>>Romney ... said he supports the contentious Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which adds “sexual orientation” to a list of federally protected classes that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

More social engineering. Another reason Willard's no conservative. Wonder what the CLDS has to say about this.

6 posted on 12/30/2007 9:47:42 AM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Mitt is zeroing in on Log Cabin Republicans.


7 posted on 12/30/2007 9:51:26 AM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: Ol' Sparky

Okay. If Mitt supports ENDA, then he just crossed over the line from “won’t support him unless he is the nominee and I have no choice” to “won’t support him even if he is the nominee.” Welcome to Rudy and Ron country, Mitt.


8 posted on 12/30/2007 9:57:29 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Head and proud of it! Fear the Fred!)
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To: Ol' Sparky
Romney is as sleazy as the come.




U.S. Army Retired


9 posted on 12/30/2007 9:59:21 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (Mitt to supporters: "DON'T TRY TO DEFEND MY LIBERAL RECORD. BELITTLE THEM WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS")
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To: Ol' Sparky
This is disgusting.
Shame on you people.

Mitt Romney believes gay people should be treated like everybody else:
No Foul Treatment
AND
No SPECIAL TREATMENT.

This is what every decent human being thinks, even those of us who disapprove of the Gay lifestyle.
10 posted on 12/30/2007 10:02:13 AM PST by elizabetty ("Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." .Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Ol' Sparky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJXyDxMKv1E

Don’t be a coward, click on the link and see the truth. This is Governor Romney fighting to have the gay marriage issue put on the ballot.


11 posted on 12/30/2007 10:06:17 AM PST by elizabetty ("Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." .Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: elizabetty
So you fully support forcing religious institutions to hire homosexual people.




U.S. Army Retired


12 posted on 12/30/2007 10:08:41 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (Mitt to supporters: "DON'T TRY TO DEFEND MY LIBERAL RECORD. BELITTLE THEM WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Romney does not support a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

He said that if such an act is passed, it should be at the state level.


13 posted on 12/30/2007 10:09:09 AM PST by bw17
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To: elizabetty
So you fully support forcing religious institutions to hire homosexual people.

And you support forcing Catholic adoption agencies to either close or place childred with homosexual couples.




U.S. Army Retired


14 posted on 12/30/2007 10:09:33 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (Mitt to supporters: "DON'T TRY TO DEFEND MY LIBERAL RECORD. BELITTLE THEM WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS")
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To: P-Marlowe; Alex Murphy

What is the Mormon position on homosexuality?


15 posted on 12/30/2007 10:10:24 AM PST by Gamecock (Aaron had what every megachurch pastor craves: a huge crowd that gave freely and lively worship.)
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To: elizabetty
Mitt Romney believes gay people should be treated like everybody else:
No Foul Treatment
AND
No SPECIAL TREATMENT

And designating sexual orientation as a protected class in anti-discrimination law isn't special treatment??

16 posted on 12/30/2007 10:11:23 AM PST by Bob
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To: ConservativeMind

The Mormon church though loony on many ideas is totally against the idea of homosexuality as should any Christian derivative. The bible is clear about such things from the very beginning. Also nature is clear about such things. Those who do not reproduce and are sexually dysfunctional are unfit.

Homosexuality is one of those interesting issues where if one is entirely honest in one’s evaluation of it then it quickly becomes clear that it is a behavior not unlike a form of retardation or a disorder. If we came upon a person who refused to put food in their mouth and proceeded to shove it up their rear end then we’d have no problem identifying the clear disorder of such an individual because a rear end is clearly not an eating orifice.

Homosexuality on the other hand receives special treatment because people seem to be entirely unable to see it clearly for what it is. It does not matter what causes it. Whether an organism is driven by desires out of its control or those which are totally by its own choice the behavior and the invalidity of it does not change.

Liberalism is surely a fatalistic beast. If we applied the flawed ideas that out of political convenience are applied to the sexually disabled(those who have incorrect desires to mate with things not fit for mating with) then we’d never try to correct deafness, blindness, or any malady of perception because to suggest such a thing would be considered bigoted because God created them that way.

We can go further and say that an individual can not be expected to set aside irrational desires because they arise from a brain and hormones created by God. So when such an individual has desires for children or kittens we should not be judgmental but should find the bit of good that is in everything for who are we to disagree with what God made.
I could go further with this line of thinking which leads us to the depths of hells and unspeakable conclusions.

We need to be careful what we take up as banners under the guise of civil rights because when those rights are merely the license for human depravity then to not agree becomes sacrilege to the dark religion whose converts will violently put down reason for the sake and justification of the most twisted and unnatural ideas. The hunger for attention and novelty and constant justification of our modern day sexual activist is the indication of a deep insanity that is being manifest not just through them because they are a symptom of the seams being strained. One can not continue to grow great political fictions that treat mankind to a public trough without a thought of who is filling it or what it is being filled with without the result being an increasing detachment from reality.

We see this is the great myths and deceptions of our time. The most recent being Global Climate Change. The depraved seek a God as sure as they denounce the idea of one that does not fit within the confines of their skulls. They instead of taking up the banner of sentient beings and choosing their destiny instead seek a return to the muck which has as much value as a chicken who seeks to return to the egg. Humanity needs to free itself from the navel gazing and myth making misanthropic ideas of the modern left. We need to grow, to consume, to aquire more resources and have more children. Indulging extravagant fictions of sexual dead ends and lost creatures who are uncomfortable with their status as a member of the human race is the path to sure destruction or at a minimum having chronic annoyances struck into law as we see today.


17 posted on 12/30/2007 10:28:04 AM PST by Maelstorm (Check out www.Fredrepublic.com)
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To: Ol' Sparky
If we get a RINO (again) as the Repub nominee it will prove that there isn’t any difference between the parties.
18 posted on 12/30/2007 10:48:54 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Liberalism IS a mental illness.)
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To: Ol' Sparky

Depends on what you mean by “orientation” in that phrase. If these guys were required to demonstrate what it means, in court, before a live audience, that would be one thing, but they are allowed to bring friends in to lie for them.


19 posted on 12/30/2007 10:50:50 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Gamecock

Here

http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=9c672f2324d98010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____


20 posted on 12/30/2007 10:55:34 AM PST by landerwy (Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!)
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