Posted on 01/04/2008 1:39:11 PM PST by Between the Lines
Top Republican presidential contenders were rated on their family values claim by a leading West Coast pro-family organization in a report card released Wednesday.
California-based Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) compiled the Report Card on the Natural Family which graded six GOP candidates on their protection of the basic family unit.
The organization reviewed the candidates’ positions in published votes, policies, public statements and documents to see how they defended the natural family – a father, a mother, and their children. The greatest weight was given to actual votes, actions and policies rather than recent statements that differ from past policies, statements or actions, CCF explained.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul received the highest rating with seven out of a possible eight points. Sen. John McCain of Arizona received four points, followed by former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee with three points. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was given the next to lowest rating, one point, by the pro-family organization.
Surprisingly, self-proclaimed family values champion, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, received the lowest score of zero points by the pro-family group.
“While all of the leading Republican candidates claim to embrace family values, let the record show that they’re marching to different drummers on marriage rights, adoption, schoolchildren, and the destructive ‘LGBT’ agenda,” said CCF president Randy Thomasson.
The candidates were scored in the categories of protection of civil marriage rights for one man and one woman; protection of the natural family, the boy scouts, and school children; and support for adoption by both a father and mother.
Topics such as adoption by homosexual couples, hate crime laws, and homosexual education in public schools were specific subcategories used to grade the candidates.
The pro-family group said that the leading Democratic candidates, meanwhile, “support nearly all” of the homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual agenda.
“As always, what a candidate does means much more than what they say. Facts are stubborn things,” Thomasson noted. The CCF president said he is a registered independent and will compare candidates from both major parties later this year.
The Campaign for Children and Families is a pro-family organization that seeks to mobilize citizens to support family values in the culture, media and government.
They got Romney correct if you go on his history, then turn around and give Giuliani a point for his recent statements vs. his history. They have 2 question marks (at least) on Thompson that they easily could have looked up the answer and graded yes. My take: They had an agenda to point to two candidates and resolved everything to promote those two.
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Wow. Sign me up.
Worthless.
The fact that they impune Mitt on family values, a man who has raised five clean cut kids and has one loyal and lifelong marriage shows they are a hack group and being absurd.
This is totally nuts.
Fred has gotten the endorsements of numerous major pro-life organizations, and these jerks give him a 3 out of 7?
And I agree that Romney is bad, but Giuliani is most certainly the worst of the bunch.
I suspect this is some kind of Huckabee front organization.
A, but who is the biggest SOCCIALIST?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
The Huckster - you know, the one HIDING behind his Bible and “faith” in socialism. I find socialism anti Christian. I also find AIDING ILLEGAL aliens AGAINST “family values” and destroying the country.
Again, another “religious left” survey.
“This is totally nuts.” It is.
“Fred has gotten the endorsements of numerous major pro-life organizations, and these jerks give him a 3 out of 7?”
These jerks have an obvious pro-Huckabee anti-Romney agenda (not giving Rudy the most pro-LGBT score is the tipoff).
“family” equals anti-gay to them. It has nothing about life, abortion, just homosexuals.
Ignoring Thompson is their only option since he’ll score the same as Huckster.
And Romney has been consistently against gay marriage and for the FMA, speaking out on it since 2004. He’s for charter schools (Huckster got NEA endorsement). AndRomney he should at least get a point for actually being a decent family man married to his first wife still. But I guess rhetoric is more important to actions and your genuine way-of-life if you are into the litmus tests.
I don’t agree. Family values are important. Marriage and family are the foundation of any country or society, and when you undermine them, you damage children and the whole culture suffers the consequences.
The problem is that some of these spokesmen for family values are unworldly purists or jerks. Or in this case, they have a political agenda and are telling lies.
DEACON FOURNIER: What would you do to protect and defend marriage and the family founded upon it as the first institution of society?
SENATOR THOMPSON: I believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
This institution is the foundation of any civilized society. I supported the Defense of Marriage Act when I served in the Senate. I support a constitutional amendment that will prevent judges from imposing same-sex marriage on the states and also ensure that each state can protect itself from same-sex marriages and civil unions recognized in other states.
Because amending the Constitution is very difficult, I also intend to focus on those things that can be achieved in the next four years, including using the bully pulpit of the Presidency to defend the institution of marriage and appointing judges who will not misinterpret the Constitution to force same-sex marriage on any state and on our society.
Guess that's not clear enough.
I did not state they were not.
Or one could do the absolutely mind boggling thing of measuring a candidate’s commitment to the concept of family by examining the candidate’s commitment to his own family and his history within his family.
But no. That sort of measurement might not yield the agenda preference.
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