Grand Hailing Sign of Distress
Posted on 02/25/2009 6:52:18 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Today, as ABC's perceptive Rick Klein notes, Romney's PAC -- Free and Strong America -- donated $1,000 each to 11 Republican congressmen targeted in a retaliatory ad campaign by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for voting against President Obama's economic stimulus bill. Romney praised the Republicans as "standing up for fiscal responsibility and saying no to spending abuse."
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Find me a list of Mormons who were encouraged at all by their clergy to get an abortion.
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You want me to start with the girlfriends of Joey Smith (”clergy”) who he sent to Dr Bennett ????
Po widdle Tennessee Mama getting her kicks out of making fun of a man raising money for CONSERVATIVES.
You're either alarmingly ignorant, or deliberately dishonest. Which is it?
Mitt has made a very public and honest change of heart on the subject of abortion. Any honest person who watched the primaries would know that.
Why do you present an outdated (2002) video and pretend that it's his current view?
An Open Letter Regarding Governor Mitt RomneyDrop the dishonesty. It doesn't help your cause.
January 11, 2007Dear conservative friends:
We hail from a broad spectrum of organizations dedicated to fighting for the pro-family agenda in Massachusetts. As you know, Mitt Romney became the governor of our state in 2003. Since that time, we have worked closely with him and his excellent staff on that agenda.
Some press accounts and bloggers have described Governor Romney in terms we neither have observed nor can we accept. To the contrary, we, who have been fighting here for the values you also hold, are indebted to him and his responsive staff in demonstrating solid social conservative credentials by undertaking the following actions here in Massachusetts:
All of this may explain why John J. Miller, the national political reporter of National Review, has written that “a good case can be made that Romney has fought harder for social conservatives than any other governor in America, and it is difficult to imagine his doing so in a more daunting political environment.”
- Staunchly defended traditional marriage. Governor Romney immediately and strongly condemned the 2003 court decision that legalized “same-sex marriage” in our state. More importantly, he followed up on that denunciation with action – action that saved our nation from a constitutional crisis over the definition of marriage. He and his staff identified and enforced a little-known 1913 law that allowed them to order local clerks not to issue marriage licenses to out-of-state couples. Absent this action, homosexual couples would surely have flooded into Massachusetts from other states to get “married” and then demanded that their home states recognize the “marriages,” putting the nation only one court decision away from nationalizing “same-sex marriage.”
- Worked hard to overturn “same-sex marriage” in the Commonwealth with considerable progress to date. In 2004 he lobbied hard, before a very hostile legislature, for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage – an amendment later changed by the legislature to include civil unions, which the Governor and many marriage amendment supporters opposed. Working with the Governor, we were successful in defeating this amendment.
- Provided active support for a successful citizen petition drive in 2005 to advance a clean constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
- Rallied thousands of citizens to focus public and media attention on the failure of legislators, through repeated delays, to perform their constitutional obligation and vote on the marriage amendment.
- Filed suit before the Supreme Judicial Court. The Governor’s suit asked the court to clarify the legislators’ duty to vote and failing that, to place the amendment on the 2008 ballot. That lawsuit, perhaps more than any other single action, was by all accounts instrumental in bringing pressure on the legislators to vote. The vote ultimately was taken on January 2, 2007 and won legislative support – clearing a major hurdle in the three year effort to restore traditional marriage in the Commonwealth. Fought for abstinence education. In 2006, under Governor Romney’s leadership, Massachusetts’ public schools began to offer a classroom program on abstinence from the faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students. Promoting the program, Governor Romney stated, “I’ve never had anyone complain to me that their kids are not learning enough about sex in school. However, a number of people have asked me why it is that we do not speak more about abstinence as a safe and preventative health practice.”
- Affirmed the culture of life. Governor Romney has vetoed bills to provide access to the socalled “morning-after pill,” which is an abortifacient, as well as a bill providing for expansive, embryo-destroying stem cell research. He vetoed the latter bill in 2005 because he could not “in good conscience allow this bill to become law.”
- Stood for religious freedom. Last year, Governor Romney was stalwart in defense of the right of Catholic Charities of Boston to refuse to allow homosexual couples to adopt children in its care. Catholic Charities was loudly accused of “discrimination,” but Governor Romney correctly pointed out that it is unjust to force a religious agency to violate the tenets of its faith in order to placate a special-interest group. Filed “An Act Protecting Religious Freedom” in the Massachusetts legislature to save Catholic Charities of Boston and other religious groups from being forced to violate their moral principles or stop doing important charitable work.
We are aware of the 1994 comments of Senate candidate Romney, which have been the subject of much recent discussion. While they are, taken by themselves, obviously worrisome to social conservatives including ourselves, they do not dovetail with the actions of Governor Romney from 2003 until now – and those actions have positively and demonstrably impacted the social climate of Massachusetts.
Since well before 2003, we have been laboring in the trenches of Massachusetts, fighting for the family values you and we share. It is difficult work indeed – not for the faint of heart. In this challenging environment, Governor Romney has proven that he shares our values, as well as our determination to protect them.
For four years, Governor Romney has been right there beside us, providing leadership on key issues – whether it was politically expedient to do so or not. He has stood on principle, and we have benefited greatly from having him with us.
It is clear that Governor Romney has learned much since 1994 – to the benefit of our movement and our Commonwealth. In fact, the entire nation has benefited from his socially conservative, pro-family actions in office. As we explained earlier, his leadership on the marriage issue helped prevent our nation from being plunged into even worse legal turmoil following the court decision that forced “gay marriage” upon our Commonwealth.
For that our country ought to be thankful. We certainly are.
Sincerely,
Rita Covelle
President, Morality in Media MassachusettsRichard Guerriero
Immediate Past State Deputy, Massachusetts State Council, Knights of ColumbusMary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolKristian Mineau
President, Massachusetts Family InstituteDr. Roberto Miranda
President, COPAHNI Fellowship of Hispanic Pastors of New EnglandJames Morgan
President, Institute for Family DevelopmentJoseph Reilly
President, Massachusetts Citizens for LifeThomas A. Shields
Chairman, Coalition for Family and Marriage___________________________
Note: The signatories are all acting as individual citizens, and not as representatives of their respective organizations. Organizational affiliations and titles appear for identification purposes only.
Nice try though
Though Mormons are not as politically outspoken, as say the Catholic church or some pro-life groups, they do have have lower abortion rates than Catholics and Evangelicals. So they are doing something right.
Actually, in a way that Mormons have so few abortions may contribute to not realizing how big a political problem/issue it is for the rest of the country. As a teenager at church our Bishop showed us an anti-abortion video produced by the LDS church. I didn't learn much in depth beyond that video about the political end of the issue until later when I got more interested in politics. Romney when he first entered politcs showed some of that political naivete about the issue as an external political issue but internally (in his own family, and ecclesiastical duties) he did what was correct.
Hah...kind of like how you Romney supporting liberals (you PEOPLE???) call everyone who opposes the liberal hairball an ‘anti-Mormon bigot’?
I see Palin supported Romney, she is on your page. Wanna call her a crybaby?
Just look at the dates of all of this, Romney switched his posture to pro-life AFTER he decided to run for president.
Dr Bennett was the abortionist that Smith kept “on call”
Grand Hailing Sign of Distress
“Who asked you to support Romney? Why not just leave him alone and stop beating him up? You don’t get my point AT ALL.
If you want to weed out the good old boys I’d say Romney is about 287th on your list. He is the least of your worries right now and he is raising money for us.”
If you are going to keep playing innocent and naive, you really should address post 40.
Please... something within the last 150 years please.
Again, AFTER he has decided to run for president he abandoned his pro-homosexual positions.
What the hell are you talking about?
I said there were anti-religious comments from so called conservatives.
You are really crazy in hate aren’t you? Stop foaming at the mouth over Romney and put your energy where it belongs - bash the Democrats.
But that's the ONLY card the FR MORMONs have!
They CANNOT uphbold his policies, so they accuse folks of being HATEFUL, religious BIGOTS.
(They've NOT noticed their accusations is NOT working.)
Can't remember the date and time but the Boston Globe published an article in the primaries about a disgruntled pro-abortion lady who Romney had counseled not to have an abortion in his ecclesiastical role as her Bishop.
Mitt has made a very public and honest change of heart on the subject of abortion
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I put a bandaid on my grandchild last week...
now I’m ready for major open heart surgery...
When is a good time for you ???
No, just you. You people (heh...leaving so soon?) are always attributing ‘support’ from people who either never supported Romney or only supported him when it was down to Romney vs. McCain.
| John 'old and crusty' McCain | B. Hussein 0bama |
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| perfect_rovian_storm, backed by democrats, pushed this candidate into the general election | where the democrat press had a field day pointing out his age, insanity, and vp pick to elect this socialist |
nice work
It's been fun, it really has. Time to go make some money so I can pay my power bill. FR sucks so much computer time, way too much.
Enjoy your Romney loathing party. I know it's what so many of you live for.
I'm out.
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